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The Game

England World Cup Squad: Initial Reaction

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Tom Roddy for a special episode of The Game podcast with their initial thoughts on the 26-man England squad that Gareth Southgate named today.


We'll bring you an extensive two-part World Cup preview next week - and an exclusive conversation with one of England's greatest ever players, ahead of the start of Qatar 2022.


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And the Manchester City Fallback Car Walker is in there too. The big names to miss out.

1:24.8

The likes of Fakai Tamori of AC Milan, Ivan Tony misses out as well. James Walt-Prouse of South

1:30.5

Hampton, no Tyrone Mings of Aston Villa either. Instead of midfield, Manchester City midfielder,

1:36.8

Calvin Phillips and Connor Gallagher of Chelsea are in there. Remember England face Iran

1:41.9

in a World Cup opener on the 21st of November, joining Group B by Wales and the United States.

1:48.0

We will have a full program dedicated to talking about England's chances and some of those games

1:53.6

as well as a preview on what Wales can do early next week. But we will strictly just be reacting

1:59.5

to the England squad, Tom Madison in. Yes, Madison in. I think it's probably,

2:06.9

probably, it works, definitely the right decision. He's a little bit like the Jack Relish of

2:13.2

this tournament, isn't he? The one that there was a yearning and a real clamoring for him to

2:18.1

be involved. But his form, it's his form, Pew, that means he really deserves to be there. And also,

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