Palmer, Maguire, Wharton OUT & Toney IN? - Early squad news reaction
5/21/202640 min
Thomas Tuchel will announce his 26-man squad for the World Cup on Friday morning but inevitably there have been leaks and it seems the big news is no place on the plane for Cole Palmer, Phil Foden, Harry Maguire or Adam Wharton, while it seems that Ivan Toney has made it
George and Dave react to the early news of the squad before we attend Tuchel's press conference on Friday
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David Walker· Host0:04
[upbeat music] Palmer finds Watkins. Watkins turns. Watkins scores. Ollie Watkins. That is wonderful.
George Elek· Host0:21
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the England Pod. All England, all the time, including 10 o'clock at night on a Thursday before the England squad for the World Cup is announced for an emergency pod. I'm George Elock. I'm joined by Dave Walker. Dave, well-oiled from the pub, coming back home early in order to record this because we thought we'd find out the squad at about nine forty-five on Friday morning, but opening another can, turns out- [laughs] ... we basically know all of it now.
David Walker· Host0:52
So earlier today in the WhatsApp group, I was, I was telling you, I had a chat with Ali on the phone actually earlier on, and I was saying, "Look, nine forty-five tomorrow morning, on Friday morning, squad's gonna be announced. I think there'll be leaks. There'll probably be leaks by, by the time we wake up. So let's get up early, let's get across social, let's maybe do some reactions, retweeting, and all that stuff because once the players get told first thing in the morning, it will start to come out." But, like, t- they've got-- They've, they've-- 12 hours earlier than I expected it's all started to come out. I was sitting in the, in the pub at about, what was it? About-- I sort of about,