Reubs

During Covid there was a trend of football fans asking their their non-football-fan relatives to name an XI of players they knew. It was a fun, silly game, so I asked my mum to do one because I missed her. Two years since her passing feels like a good time to share it. ❤️

@TomElShawk Yeah those would be my changes too

@ReubenPinder I've got two concerns. Wharton should be in as we look light in midfield (particularly when looking at Rice's workload). Feels like Lewis Hall did enough to make the squad. The rest is fine

I’m also not having the anti Southgate crowd come crawling back because they don’t like this squad

@waynefarry SFTI ✌️

@ReubenPinder shades of Reuben Pinder when the boys go for a pint without him

So many players left out are reacting with the cattiest posts on social media. Have some decorum, chaps.

@brucemillington With his numbers on screen haha

@ReubenPinder He just said he’s gutted and wished the lads well. Nothing wrong with that.

@brucemillington Garner’s IG story

@ReubenPinder Seen Maguire. Who else?

@CallumBradke I posted one meme 😂 I am also not his representative

@ReubenPinder Like you with Wharton, no?

@JoshyyBauerNSC as he explained, why call up 5 no.10s to play them out of position? He wants 2 proper wingers on each side, as is right

🗣️"I'm devastated. I love him. I want to see him play football for England." On our emergency podcast, @GeorgeElek and @D_C_W react to the biggest talking points from yesterday's leaked England squad news...

@JohnBrewin_ Yeah, he really just buckled to the clamour didn’t he

@ReubenPinder Last one was sort of like this. Though Southgate picked the squad everyone wanted. It didn’t work.

This might be the biggest collective headloss response to any England squad I can remember

What would be the funniest call-up to be confirmed?

No Wharton?

@TheKCMango I know. But they can both go, even with Henderson as a 5th

@ReubenPinder It’s already been kind of alluded to by TalkSPORT that Tuchel has chosen Mainoo over him.

Trying to mentally prepare myself for the possibility of Wharton being left out tomorrow. Please just take him.

@MelissaReddy_ More what he says than how often he says things

Mohamed Salah is lambasted for not speaking enough, then when he does, is slammed for not doing it at the time and in the manner his critics demand. He is not a performing monkey. He has given absolutely everything he could to the game - and for just shy of a decade, to Liverpool. Why is his love for the club always questioned? Why can’t he speak as a fan of Liverpool, which he is? Salah FC or Misperception FC? substack.com/home/post/p-19…

@JDunnWilson it just feels quite disproportionate

@ReubenPinder Why? They’ve benefitted from breaking the rules in the knockout stage of a competition worth £100m+ at the expense of another club

@Luke_Seychell probably the main factor, but still feels disproportionate

@ReubenPinder Even for multiple games? Feel like the fact it's multiple makes it a huge issue

Cancel the funeral march. Put the obituaries on ice. Tell the violinist he can knock off early for the evening. Neymar is going to the World Cup. It will be Neymar’s fourth World Cup. His last, too, barring stunning advances in medical science between now and 2030. For him, it is a chance to right a few wrongs, to end his Selecao story with a flourish. For now, there is only one certainty: it won’t be boring. 📝 @jacklang bit.ly/4wzenip

@AliMaxwell_ @England_Pod No! The other one

@ReubenPinder @England_Pod Get Alex Scott on the plane Thomas

🗣️ "That will rattle a lot of fans!" @AliMaxwell_ predicts Thomas Tuchel's England World Cup squad. 📋✈️