Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times I'm Natalie Sawyer and I'm

Greg Robertson we're here with you twice a week throughout the season for all the

best reaction and analysis from some of the best football raters in the business.

Joining us today, it is the Times' very own Bill Edgar and Chief Football Writer Henry Winter,

who is in Prague.

Coming up, we're going to take a look at why Jack Ross didn't work out at Sunderland and is Trent Alexander Arnold a wasted talent at full back.

First though, Garris Southgate has his boys back together and they're on the road this time.

First up for the three lions it's the Czech

Republic on Friday before a trip to Bulgaria on Monday night. The Times

Chief Football writer then Henry joins us on the line now as I say from the

Czech Republic to take a look at the two games.

We're going to start though with off-field matters and a number of England's

players have spoken this week about UAFSA's three-step protocol combating

racism on the pitch. Is it doing enough? Well, Tammy

Abraham has suggested not and implied that England will be ready to walk when they

want to walk, not when they're told they can. If there were any incidents of racism on the field or from the stands.

Following a team meeting, Abraham said it is a team thing.

Don't isolate one person, we're a whole team.

If it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us. We should

point out Uwafer have their clear three-step guidelines if racial abuse is

detected. The first being stadium announcement calling for it to stop, secondary, temporary suspension of the game with a further announcement and finally the abandonment of the match.

Abraham did say if we decide we want to stop the game and we want to stop the game no matter what the score is if we're not happy with it as a team

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