Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and Sunday Times.

This is a very special episode having a look at Thomas Tuckel's England Squad.

I'm Tom Clark and I'm joined by the football journalist of the year and the chief football correspondent for the Times and Sunday Times.

Johnny Northcroft. Johnny, it's 9.30. You're at Wembley. You've tried to find a little quiet location for us to talk to me now. As I say, it's 9.30 when we're recording this, we're getting confirmation of the squad at 10 o'clock. But thanks to the brilliant reporting from Times journalists, such as yourself, Paul Joyce, Paul Hurst and Matt Lawton.

We are in a position where we basically know the squad. I've got to read it out for you now, Johnny Schatz, if I've got any of this wrong, but we've got Pickford, Dean Henderson and James Trafford as the goalkeepers. Then we've got Rhys James, Tino Livermento, Mark Gwey, Esri Konser, John Stones, Jarrell, Carol Kwanza, Nico O'Reilly, Dan Byrne and Jed Spence as the Defenders, Declan Rice,

Elliot Anderson, Jude Belling Jarrell Quanzar, Nico O'Reilly, Dan Byrne and Jed Spence as the defenders,

Declan Rice, Elliot Anderson, Jude Bellingham, Jordan Henderson, Morgan Rogers and Kobe Maino as midfielder, and then Harry Kane, Ivan Tony, Olly Watkins as your three strikers, and the forwards and wingers, we've got Saka, Madaweke, Marcus Rashford, Anthony Gordon and Eberec Eze. Johnny, what do we make of it?

Yes. Yes, well do we make of it?

Yes. Yes, well, that is our understanding of the squad. I'm standing just outside the press room

under the main stand at Wembley with generators going and you might hear the old forklet

truck as they make preparations for today. But yeah, the initial shock, I guess yesterday was two-fold.

One was Ivan Tony's inclusion.

The other was Harry McGuire's exclusion from the squad.

I have reservations about McGuire not being in.

I'd have definitely kicked him.

I think he's been the best English defender,

apart from Greyie in the Premier League this year, and he's excellent with both boxers. But having woke up and thought

about it this morning, I am talking about, I'm quibbling about a decision made around the fourth

choice defender in which Tupil's gone for Dan Byrne instead, so maybe it's not the biggest call.

Tony's very interesting.

Nobody really saw this coming, but from what I understand, Tricles thinking about the heat,

the fact that Ivan Tony scored 30 goals in the Saudi Pro League in similar conditions.

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