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I think that was the gabby talking. Well, let's
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now rewind the clock and we're gonna listen
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to England Serbia back
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because myself, Nick and Alex were
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all leaving voice notes to each
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other as we experienced that grinding
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1-0 England victory, which I am
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about to predict. So
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here it is. Relive the game with us
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and see if you can spot the little
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cameo that's in there at the end. Here
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it is. Here
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we go again. Euro 2024
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England versus Serbia. The tournament is
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about to begin for England fans.
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I am watching this at home
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tonight because it is
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Father's Day and also it's my
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wedding anniversary. So
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the combination of that guilt
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means I'm watching this at home. And
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as I sit here now, I just
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been thinking all day about how England
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never start a tournament well. Switzerland
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in Euro 96. France
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Euro 2004
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who can forget Portugal Euro 2000. The
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list goes on and on. So I'm I think
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if we just just kind of scratch out
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grind out a 1-0 victory, I think that
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would be lovely and
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I think that is what's going to happen
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if I'm honest with myself. Great
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to see all the rouse about
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whether Trent Alexander Arnold can play in midfield despite
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him having done that and been quite good when
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he's done it in the past, I think. That's
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going to be an interesting thing to watch. But
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really, I'm just excited to
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open a bottle of red wine and enjoy this
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without having a queue at a pub bar. to
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look at it, that's what it looks like with the
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old zip on it. You very rarely get a zip
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like that on a cotton polo, in
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my experience. That's literally, you
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haven't used resident fashion. Yeah,
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fashion expert. I
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think that's a merino wool polo, and
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underneath the jacket, in that
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sort of colour, I mean, it's a braver man than
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me. But the way I sweat, I mean, that's got
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patches written all over. I think he's committed to it,
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no knee sweating, gone, I can't even take the jacket
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off now. Everyone's going to see, what have I worn?
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Why didn't I wear the dark blue one? By
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the way, you know you mentioned about the
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first game of Italian 90, when
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Gary Lineker shit himself. Did
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you see, during the BBC coverage
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or something, they appeared to be
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being attacked by Hornets? Really?
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Yeah, they alluded, they'd come back, and
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he said something. I've
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already made this up. I may
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rose, had got the better of me.
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I'm sure at some point they mentioned
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the fact that they were being
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attacked by Hornets. Because
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obviously the BBC studio is open
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air. All
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right. He's just going
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in, look, it must be, it's the
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opening game of a tournament. Something bad is
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going to happen to me. And
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here we go. Actually, it's
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all right, I'm now, you know, I'm
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now pundit, I'm completely safe. And
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yeah, it's just like getting, it
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just started being attacked by Hornets.
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All right, I'm getting worried about. It's like
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Final Destination. No, see, no, I've just found,
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look, look, there's a story
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about it. They were on the
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receiving end of a big Hornet attack. Oh my
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God. Yeah, it was when they kind
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of came back and had the break or something like
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that. And they were being attacked by a swarm of
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Hornets that were just like knocking a bell. I tell
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you what, if he hadn't shit himself since Italian 90,
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he would have done that. He would have done that.
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right, well, it's time for another noughties pundit.
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And boy, what a pundit this guy is.
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He's been there in numerous England squads through tournaments
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in 2002, 2004, 2010. A
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man synonymous with being a big man up top.
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I'm going to say it. An
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England legend of the noughties. It's
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Emil Heskey. left
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unmarked. Emil Hesky, could it be five?
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man is on our artwork. He's a cover
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start of Let's Be Having You. Boy, this
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man knows a lot about playing in
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international tournaments for England. It's Emil Hesky.
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How you doing Emil? How you doing
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guys? Yeah good, good, good, good. So
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we're recording this the morning after Serbia
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last night. What do you make of it Emil?
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Are you excited about what you saw? Do you
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know what? There were some bits of it, especially
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the first half, there were some
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bits of it. I would have looked for us
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to create more chances,
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clear cut chances than we did. We
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had a lot of possession. We probed, we probed. But
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again, this is what England's gonna get. They're gonna get
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teams that are just gonna sit in there, see
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how long they can frustrate England for, and
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then try and get on counter-attack with
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three kicks with corners and
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see if they can nick a goal. And that's what it looked
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like. A couple
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of players were a little bit off,
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but that looked more like
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pressure. Can I just ask
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Emil? I think Harry Kane in the first half,
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I think he'd only had, was it one or
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two touches? As a striker,
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do you like kind of, when
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that happens to you, is
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it hard to kind of like keep your confidence up
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or are you just thinking, well I'm gonna get a
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chance sooner or later? Or are you there
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thinking during it, oh my god, I'm not in this game
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here? I played good arguably one
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of the best players, best
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number 10s out there in
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Wayne Rooney. Now on my job,
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as a striker with Wayne Rooney playing off football with me,
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Wayne Rooney doesn't want to be, he can run in behind,
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but basically he wants to get on the wall. How
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am I gonna create space for Wayne Rooney? So
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my thing was stretching the pitch, staying
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as high as possible, as long as possible to try
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and make them little spaces for him. And
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that was, I understood that.
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I didn't necessarily need to have
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10, 15, 20, 30 touches in the game. My
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touches would come a bit further
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into the penalty area. And
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that's where Harry Kane got his chance from. I
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think that, apart from the goal that
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we scored, was probably the one of the
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only crosses that came in the second half of the boat,
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I think it was. One
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of the only real crosses that got into the box, with
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someone who was so deadly in and around
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that box, so good that usually his head,
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so good at creating space and finding that
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space in the box, I'm not
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sure why we didn't utilise that. Yeah, there's one
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thing Alan Shearer was saying on commentary, wasn't it? He
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wanted Harry Kane just stood further up the pitch all
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the time, like doing exactly what you were saying, being
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like kind of that out ball and
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just keeping the defences occupied, which is exactly your
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game. It's the toughest thing to do because one
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as a player, you just want to get on
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the ball. If you haven't touched that ball for
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five minutes, you
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automatically know seeking for it just to get a
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touch. The team
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doesn't need that. They
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don't need you bringing more players into
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their spaces. It's
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very technical. You
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have to be very patient and you
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have to be very organised and very
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diligent in what the manager wants you
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to do. I think he's come out
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and said he played something. He played
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a little bit different to what he usually does because he's trying
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to stretch a pitch, but if you look
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at it, he was still trying to get on the ball
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and still compacting the midfield area. So
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you were involved in a lot of England squads
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as we touched upon at the start. What
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for you was the most fun
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you had at a tournament? Was there one
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squad that actually, not necessarily on the pitch,
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but maybe off the pitch around the hotel,
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you just had a lot of fun? I
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would say Japan, the world cup of Japan. We
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had some character. David James is a bit of a
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character. Yeah, it was good
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fun. The
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good thing is it's difficult. You go
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away with England, you come back and
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see the lads who have gone away
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with Scotland and Ireland and Wales. It's
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totally different where you hear about them going. going
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out and roaming
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and mingling. We weren't allowed
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to do any of that. We would have thousands
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of parents just sat outside the hotel,
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thousands of parents just waited for you
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to come out the outside, down to the etc. All
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of our entertainment was kind of compact in
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the electoral hotel, which was difficult at times.
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Yeah, and I think it seems
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like it's the case now, like when you see social
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media clips of the England team riding unicorns
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in a swimming pool, that kind of thing,
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there seems like they've got a lot of
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activities and there are constantly things to do. Did
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you have much of that back in your day?
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Or was it just a PlayStation in the
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hotel room? There was a games room, table
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tennis, but pretty much a PlayStation. Very
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much a PlayStation who was the best at people,
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who was the best at corner duty. Yeah,
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that was it to be honest with you. And the
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funny part is I never played any of them. I
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didn't play computer games. Oh man, you must have been
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so bored. Yeah, table tennis was
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good, I was okay. It's
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a shame you didn't play because I tell you what,
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on Pro Evo you were unbelievable on it. I was...
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Everyone keeps telling me that. I get that all
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the time. I
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even got that last night. So, you know... You
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went to the World Cup in 2002, you were there
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with Gareth, Gareth Southgate. He was in the squad, right?
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So what was it, was he good at FIFA? I
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can't remember complaining, to be honest with you. It
27:23
was obviously, we were seeing a member, him and
27:25
Martin Keown were fantastic for us. I was
27:27
young players to be fair. Because
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again, they're the ones you've got to look up to.
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They're the ones who were kind of guiding you through
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everything. And he was brilliant. Tairys,
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as a young player, you need to see a player to
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sit down and talk to you and to
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make sure you're okay. He was...
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Him and Martin Keown were there, were then
27:46
senior players to be fantastic. Could
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you say that Southgate had
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the potential to be a good manager at
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international level? Coaching wise, I don't know. Again,
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man management, yes, because again, he
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was really... even
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though by rights, he should have been captain.
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But there was a bit,
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I remember there was a storyline where
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Luke Davenport went away of England and
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Ryan Naismith was also called up to
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the squad and went as a debutant.
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I remember, I'm pretty sure I remember that
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rightly, that both of them, there was a
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bit where, because Luke Davenport was like kind
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of the, you know, he was
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a superstar. And yeah, Naismith was
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a young player, just got called up and
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went along with him. Imagine scoring 173 Premier
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League goals and
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not getting an England call up. How
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many did, how many, what's the record?
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How many does Alan Shearer get? He's
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top, isn't he? Who's all-time Premier League
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goal scorers? 260,
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he's, Shearer got 260. So
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how many has Cole Fletcher got? I
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think on, what was on Riyon? He was on about...
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Yeah, 175. So that would place
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him eighth. That would place him
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eighth on the all-time Premier League top scorer. But to be
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fair, that's one ahead of Robbie Fowler on 163. He
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didn't play a lot for England, did he? No, but
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he still had a few call-ups, which I don't.
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And also, didn't end up
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being hung on a clothes peg. So
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that's... Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert.
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