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Tuchel’s giant England squad and an EFL roundup – Football Weekly

Football Weekly

The Guardian

Sports, Soccer

4.59.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Max Rushden is joined by Sanny Rudravajhala, George Elek and Ali Maxwell to discuss who made it into Thomas Tuchel’s England squad before the international break … and who didn’t. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/footballweeklypod. Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FootballWeeklyPodcast

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:14.0

Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly.

0:16.0

We'll begin today discussing Thomas Tuckel's England squad 35 players, late call-ups including Ben White, but still no Trent Alexander Arnold. Will James Garner win us the World Cup? What about Harvey McBarnes? What chance to recall Maguire and Mayneu have of getting into the final group? And realistically, what starting positions are still up for grabs? Then on to the EFL, are Kov ready for the Premier League? Who of Middlesbrite, Ips, which Millwall and even Hull would be the most interesting to join them?

0:56.4

It's exhaustingly tight at the bottom of the championship. Oxford, Leicester, Pompey, West Brom and Blackburn, all desperate to avoid joining Sheffield Wednesday. Lincoln could be promoted from League 1 at Easter with Cardiff, sure, to join them, with perhaps nine teams still vying for the playoffs. In League 2 it's picked 3 from 6 for the automatics with Bromley almost certainly there,

0:56.4

plus a four-way scrap vying for the playoffs. In League 2, it's picked three from six for the automatics, with Bromley almost certainly there,

0:58.4

plus a four-way scrap to stay in the league.

1:01.5

We'll do all that, answer your questions, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly.

1:09.7

On the panel today, Sani Rudra Vajara, welcome.

1:29.6

Hello, hello from Solford Uni. If I have to disappear at the end, I apologise in advance, but learning's got to be done as well. It absolutely has. What's the subject of today's lesson, Sani? Live blogging, and thankfully, and with my colleague as well, so she might start them off if I delay to talk Bromley. it'll be okay. It'll be all right. Okay, good stuff.

1:36.8

Then it is a Not the Top 20 slash the England pod from Not the Top 20 takeover. Ali Maxwell, hello.

1:41.4

Hello, pleased to hear that Sannie is developing the barries of the future.

1:44.8

Yeah, absolutely right. George George Alec, hello.

1:46.6

Hi Max, if I have to leave early, it definitely won't be for learning.

1:50.1

Okay, well, maybe our listeners will learn something from today, but history would suggest

1:53.9

it's unlikely.

1:55.1

Right, let's talk about England to start with.

1:56.7

They named the 35-man squad, 11 players arriving after the Uruguay game.

2:00.2

I mean, you can George get caught up with who's going to be the 23rd player

2:04.8

because ultimately it doesn't have a massive bearing on the matches.

2:08.6

But Ben White's inclusion is interesting after Kwanza was ruled out,

2:12.5

especially with Trent's continued exclusion.

2:15.1

Yeah, I think that's kind of the big story here. He's someone who's

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