Rooney on Bellingham, Southgate & Leadership
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kelly Cates sits down with Wayne Rooney to talk all things England.
The Three Lions secured top spot in Group C after their 0-0 draw against Slovenia, but questions around performances still loom.
Wayne discusses the impact of the substitutes in the final group game, including whether the likes of Kobbie Mainoo, Cole Palmer and Anthony Gordon deserve places in Gareth Southgate’s starting XI when England play in the round of 16.
Also hear Wayne’s thoughts on England’s need for leaders, their potential route to the final, and the form of Jude Bellingham.
Timecodes: 01:50 Reaction to Slovenia game 02:55 Key players not performing 04:30 Inexperience in the squad 07:10 Jude Bellingham 10:30 Getting to the final 13:10 Criticism of Gareth Southgate 18:15 Managing expectations 20:50 Problems in attack 24:50 Knockout stages
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| 0:11.6 | But his life of violence led to his downfall. |
| 0:15.0 | Why did it happen? |
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| 0:17.3 | How did Viv Graham build an empire? |
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| 0:24.8 | Gangster, the story of Vib Graham. |
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| 0:34.7 | Euro 2024, on the Football Daily Podcast with Kelly Cates. |
| 0:42.0 | Football Daily Special with Wayne Rooney. Wayne before we get to the football, which obviously |
| 0:46.8 | we will do, how have you found it? |
| 0:48.4 | How's your tournament been so far? |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah, no, it's been okay obviously different and new to what I've been used to |
| 0:56.1 | He's done TV in the in the past but |
| 0:58.8 | Spent quite a bit of time here, so it's yeah, been a bit different but no I've enjoyed it and unfortunately |
| 1:05.6 | I haven't had any of the England games to talk about rarely but the games |
| 1:10.3 | have been not the greatest but it's been nice to spend some time |
| 1:14.6 | yeah we can talk about English in a minute but it must be weird to get that |
| 1:19.1 | perspective from like you're at a tournament but you're not involved in the tournament in terms of being inside the the camp |
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