Full of surprises is our Gareth. We expected Southgate to stubbornly ignore England's most in-form playmaker but James Maddison's shock inclusion makes this squad hard to quibble with...
We thoroughly expected Gareth Southgate to stubbornly ignore James Maddison but his shock inclusion makes this England squad very hard to quibble with.After six years, Southgate has gone rogue with his England squad for the World Cup. In it, against all expectation despiteThis, we think, is a very welcome development, if slightly unsettling since it goes against pretty much everything we know about Southgate and what we have come to expect from the England boss..
Knowing Southgate as we thought we did, it is hard to imagine that Maddison is going as a passenger, one whose primary purpose in Qatar is to silence those lobbying for his inclusion. Indeed, the argument now shifts from his inclusion in the squad to the XI. So Southgate, presumably, has finally come around to the view that Maddison can offer something in the no.10 position that no-one else shoehorned in to the role could.
England have bundles of creativity in Jack Grealish, Phil Foden, Mason Mount and Raheem Sterling. But, as Southgate said after the last internationals before he picked his party, they all play in other positions for their clubs. In Maddison, whether from the start or, more likely, from the bench, the Three Lions have a string-puller, a maverick. Which makes the prospect of watching England in Qatar more exiting,Maddison’s inclusion has taken plenty of p*ss off the boil.
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