Mailbag: What is England's best XI?
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In just seven months time we'll all be sat down, pint in hand, flare up bum, watching England kick their first ball at the 2026 World Cup. But which of Tommy Tuchel's lions will be lucky enough to get a starting spot?
Marcus, Luke & Jim pick out the 11 players they'd like to see start the tournament, and which players might be best off the bench. Plus, which current England player would make the best future Three Lions boss?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Football Rambled Mailbag. |
| 0:04.4 | England's 11, the Swiss model and World Cup songs are the orders of the day. |
| 0:07.8 | It's Tuesday, 18th and November. I'm Marcus Speller. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Luke Moore. And I'm Tim Campbell. |
| 0:37.4 | Hello, everybody. Hello everybody, it's mailbag time. What a time it is, of course. And remember, you are very much in the cockpit with this show. We're just lounging around in first class, aren't we, Jim? You, you're in first class? I mean, in economy. |
| 0:38.4 | We're your co-pilots. You have the third pilot on the long haul flights |
| 0:41.1 | and you get a little bed at the back. |
| 0:42.9 | We're rotating around that. |
| 0:44.3 | No. |
| 0:44.8 | They do, they have a bed in the cockpit for the long haul flights. |
| 0:46.3 | We're not that. |
| 0:47.3 | Okay. |
| 0:47.7 | We're getting the martinis in. |
| 0:49.3 | You're in first class, for sure. You're in economy. Gutted. Yeah. I'm probably premium economy. Yeah. Although, of course, you know, we've flown a few times together. There's only one man at this table who once upgraded him from economy. Yeah, myself, yeah. And it's that man. Use my own money. Get yourself a business boy. Jim and I, people of the people. Now, anyway, |
| 1:11.2 | enough of the bollocks. |
| 1:12.0 | We want your questions. |
| 1:13.3 | Just let it go. |
| 1:14.3 | Let it go. |
| 1:14.6 | I was just going to say, it was very much sitting between you two or I'll upgrade myself to business. He will pay an extra few hundred quid to do that. I think that it was a 300 quid actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jim and I were very happy to quite literally see the back of you. |
| 1:26.1 | Anyway, we want your questions. |
| 1:29.4 | Oh, send us a packet of Chris back. Oh, dear. It's a small price to pay. The great thing about that is, that all happened. That's all true. The other person in this was Pete, and I have no idea he was. Private Jet. Different plane. Oh, had got the train to Minneapolis, isn't he? |
| 1:45.1 | That's right. |
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