Southgate announces final England Euro 2024 squad
Football Daily
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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman is joined by football correspondent John Murray, and football writer Henry Winter, to reflect on Gareth Southgate's Euro 2024 England squad announcement. The team discuss the decision to drop Jack Grealish in place of Eberechi Eze, Adam Wharton and Kobbie Mainoo's inclusions, and the likelihood of Marc Guehi starting alongside John Stones in central defence. Also on a pod, John Murray interviews the England manager himself to get his perspective on the big decisions.
Timecodes: 00:35 Initial reactions 6:19 Southgate interview 14:40 Eze's inclusion 16:45 A squad 'for the future' 21:26 Guehi starting alongside Stones
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Joe Wilkinson and I've managed to force Patrick Bamford to come on a |
| 0:05.4 | podcast of me and he's going to slowly fall in love with me. Do you go to the tip? |
| 0:09.2 | Believe we're not, yeah, I do. Do you go to the supermarket? No. You know when all the shirts started getting |
| 0:15.5 | tie on the players and they started selling them like that to the general public? |
| 0:20.1 | Yeah yeah and everyone looked like sausages. |
| 0:23.0 | My mate's a footballer with me, Patrick Bamford and Joe Wilkinson. |
| 0:27.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:36.0 | This is the Football Daily with Steve Crossman. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello there, welcome to the Football Daily Podcast. Garris Southgate has |
| 0:44.6 | announced his squad for this summer's euros. Headlines, no Jack Grealish, |
| 0:49.4 | no Harry McGuire, no James Madison. |
| 0:52.5 | Correspondent John Murray is with the England team |
| 0:54.5 | at Tottenham Hot Spurs training centuries. |
| 0:56.2 | With us on the football daily, John, |
| 0:58.6 | loads was trickling out, and it was happening throughout the day. |
| 1:01.4 | So I guess it made sense |
| 1:02.2 | just to get it over and done |
| 1:03.2 | it? Well it's been quite the day after the news of many of those who are being left out of the 26th |
| 1:09.8 | the seven men sort of came out and dribs and drabs over the past 24 hours and as as you know as listeners probably know the original plan was that England would play Iceland tomorrow night |
| 1:20.1 | By midnight the the squads have to be submitted to UEFA so the plan was it would be |
| 1:25.2 | submitted after the match to cover all possible eventualities and then the announcement would |
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