Lions Watch: Which of England's fringe players should go to the World Cup?
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Yes, that's right ladies and gents. Lions Watch is back for the 2026 World Cup! After a couple of concerning displays against Uruguay and Japan, we get your thoughts and answer your questions about the Three Lions.
Marcus, Luke & Jim are here to discuss the fringe players who played themselves in and out of contention, England's reliance on Harry Kane, and which player is going to give Pete a stonker this summer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to a brand new series of Lions Watch. Yes, that's right. It's back. Lions |
| 0:17.0 | Watch is returning for the 2026 World Cup. And this time we're doing it live. |
| 0:22.3 | We're doing it live. |
| 0:23.5 | Come on. |
| 0:24.4 | For every other Wednesday, starting from today, obviously, we'll be going live on the Football |
| 0:28.8 | Ramble YouTube channel answering some of your questions about England as we count down |
| 0:33.2 | to that first game in Texas. |
| 0:36.4 | Not long now. |
| 0:37.4 | Not long now at all. If you're watching on YouTube, |
| 0:39.0 | hello, pleasure to have you with us. Leave a comment where you can leave your comments. |
| 0:44.1 | Get involved with the show. Ask whatever question you want, hopefully about England, but |
| 0:49.2 | you know, we are quite liberal on this show. We'll be answering some of them as the stream |
| 0:53.0 | goes on. But before that, |
| 0:55.2 | everybody, we've got to have something to get us started. So, Luke Moore and Jim Campbell, |
| 0:59.8 | how about this for a start off of a 10? Which of the fringe players from England squad this |
| 1:05.8 | international break have convinced you that they should be on the plane this summer. Luke, |
| 1:10.9 | I go to you first. |
| 1:12.1 | For me, |
| 1:12.4 | it's probably Harry Kane. |
| 1:13.4 | Right. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.7 | Didn't feature in the, in the send-off series against Uruguay in Japan. Send-off series. Hey? Didn't feel like one, did it? No, it really didn't. It felt like a get-the-fuck out of it series to me. but joke on the side early swear word for the live broadcast |
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