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What’s your point? People are falling into the hero-worship trap of a young player who’s not proved himself at club or national level. He deserved his shot in the team, looked decent v Tunisia, but he’s not a starter imo. Rashford missed a sitter of a chance last night, if he scores it, he...

You’re moving the goal posts a bit. I’m just saying Dembélé is rated very highly amongst his Spurs teammates, coincidentally, most of whom make up the England squad. Dembélé would start for England for sure, he’s behind De Brunye who’s Europe’s, if not the world’s in-form midfielder right now...

He’s scored against the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy and Wales (semi-finalists in 2016) with 7 goals in 24 caps, which is a goal every 3.4 games.

Which is why I stipulated the year 2004. But in 2006, he was also coming back from a bad injury. Rooney’s international career at major tournaments will be looked back in failure. 1 in 11 in the World Cup and disappointing performances at Euro 2012 and 2016, he never hit the heights of 2004...

Has a better international record than Rashford and is a 20 goal-a-season striker in the Premiership. The stats speak for themselves.

He has the attributes to go far in the game, but he’s no Rooney in 2004.

Belgium just have a better squad than ours. For context, just about every spurs player I’ve seen interviewed in their club roles say that Dembélé is one of the best players they’ve played with, technicality-wise. They have Courtois, Alderwield, Kompany, Vertonghan, De Brunye, Lukaku, Hazard...

Sterling’s England career has mainly played under Hodgson, which is possibly the worst England manager ever in major tournaments. No one played well under him — look at Kane now, who was on corners and 0 goals in 2016! Rashford has played well for England when called upon, but that miss versus...

I suppose Southgate needed to see what other players brought to the table. Rashford, Dier, Rose and Cahill in particular were all close calls for the original Starting 11. I thought Cahill and Rose did themselves justice. Dier on the other hand, he is half the ‘pivot’ or ‘quarterback’ Henderson...

Last night was a reminder of why we play 5-3-2 too. Fellaini and Dembele controlled the game better than Dier-Cheek-Delph. We played the 5-3-2 because we know we don’t have the caliber of midfielders capable of controlled games v ‘the good teams’. My biggest gripe with last night was the break...

Harries was right to leave, as I genuinely think Robins would’ve preferred an experienced L2 CB starting — similar to Stevenson’s diminished role. George Thomas, however, has wasted a year of his career and momentum from his final half season with us is gone. At best, he goes to a Championship...

In FM14 and 15 our owners are ‘looking to leave’ — if only! — and I managed to get taken by an Indian, then Brazilian tycoon, took us European and Premiership glory. Given £13m to spend in L1 buyback FFP meant I couldn’t sign anyone bar a needed CB. Though my first save for Cov in FM14 was...

I’m not too concerned actually. We created the best chance of the game and Rashford should be kicking himself for that 1v1 miss. Tonight underlined the importance of Henderson and Lingard (someone I wasn’t sold on if I’m honest) to the system. Dier doesn’t have the range of passing Hendo...

They need standardised VAR rules accross all major leagues so it’s not a case of different referees accustomed to different protocols and so on. I appreciate rugby union can be far more centralised because there’s far less teams, but football needs lay out the VAR system better in future...

Chelsea play with wingbacks, the role of our fullbacks are akin to wingbacks — Grimmer certainly plays very high up the pitch when we attack. Any description of Sterling I’ve read about him has him as a RB who can play anywhere on the right. Junior Brown, a player I remember on football manager...

Was quite disappointed Senegal failed to get at least a draw as they were generally the better side. Yet another example of the importance of set-pieces in the World Cup — thankfully Southgate has placed a large emphasis on this for England. I’m surprised we’ve made so many changes v Belgium...

For me, a penny less than £1m is a robbery and we should be holding out for £1.5-2m. That’s his worth to us. I’d be surprised if any championship side paid that because at 25, he’s not exactly a young talent, but he’s got his peak ahead of him. I’m hoping we’ll keep him this window.

People expect the VAR system to be perfect from the offset. Any system that requires interpretation is going to be imperfect. Even rugby’s TMO system gets it wrong occasionally, despite getting it right +90% of the time. They need better protocols for referrals and decision making imo. In...

There's an element of that, for sure... But not all corners over 46 games were that bad that only Grimmer scored in game 2 or 46.

Exactly. To put that game into context, our defenders scored double their tally in that one game than the whole season. If we could improve one thing from last season into this season, it would be set pieces 100%.