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Ward-Prowse, a holding midfielder?

Are there many players from the Eredivisie going to the Euros? It’s obviously not a league I watch very often…

No, I’m saying the Dutch league is a decent standard of football for picking international players. I don’t hear much criticism of the (supposedly inferior) Portuguese league when we’re all fawning over Vik, so not sure why playing in the Eredevisie precludes anyone from selection for us. And...

Would you say the same about Portugal? The Dutch league is ranked higher. Both strike me as a perfectly acceptable standard for a player with ambitions to be at the Euros.

You pick a squad that includes leaders and lieutenants who the manager trusts to impose a bit of order and stability on a notoriously high-pressure environment. You can just pick a squad that’s an ever-spinning carousel of flavour-of-the-month players, with no concern for how they’ll actually...

So you leave out one of the most experienced and respected members of the squad for a player with about a dozen career games at senior level who’s never even been in an England squad before? It’s not going to happen. It’s been the fashionable thing to bash Henderson for a while now, and if he’d...

Which other holding midfielders would you pick? I assume the squad - if not the first XI - will need more than one.

It’s completely the wrong game for Kelly. Can’t see him getting on unless we need to park the bus for penalties in extra time.

Nothing gets the blood going on here like a good old fashioned population debate. Up there with “CCFC promotion vs England WC win” and “Should Dabo have taken a penalty” as all-time topics.

Must say I don’t remember anything about this, but even if they were total arseholes I wouldn’t wish this situation on any club, especially knowing everything we went through. There by the grace of Godden etc.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/coventry-city-sakamoto-fa-elbow-28625573

Glad he’s continuing his career - he said he’d suffered horrendous abuse while with us, a claim which has been somewhat brushed under the carpet.

We’re not exactly swimming in defence/midfield options are we - seems fairly obvious that Henderson will start at the Euros at this point.

This is a cracking ghost story

A special carve-out for “Christian values” - have the Islamists lost control of the country already?

Can a kit from four years ago legitimately be called retro?

I think it was a ridiculous case, but clearly the director of public prosecutions felt differently at the time… 'Twitter joke' case only went ahead at insistence of DPP

The scenario you’re describing already happens at every level of the tournament - a team can win a game thanks to a refereeing decision that another ref would have missed etc. Not all games in the FA Cup have a fourth official, goal-line technology, magic spray etc etc. So long as the rules of...

I think I see where the disconnect is here

Pretty sure there are various victims of extremist violence who would disagree with you on this one. Extreme cases, you might say, but your position is an untenable one for anyone who wants to talk seriously about making politics less partisan, or kinder, or more solutions-oriented etc etc.