England squad for friendlies against Uruguay and Japan. Tuchel names huge 35-man squad. Maguire, Mainoo and Hall back in. Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s first call-up for five years. James Garner gets debut call-up. No Shaw, White or Lewis-Skelly.
This is what football is all about
✅ 16-15 on penalties
✅ Fulham miss 9th pen
✅ Preston GK gives it large
✅ Preston miss 9th pen to win
✅ Fulham score 10th pen & “shhh” GK
✅ Goalkeeper’s then take pens 🚀
✅ Pen goes in off the back of GK’s head
✅ Big underdog upset
Lovely
🎙️ Miroslav Klose: “I stopped playing football because I no longer recognised it. Today, young players think about other things. As a child, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved. At Lazio and in the national team, after each training session, I put myself in a bathtub full of ice to avoid injuries. But the young players on the team systematically refused.
When they saw me picking up the bags of balls to put them away at the end of training, they said to me 'But who tells you to do that?'.
At that moment, I said to myself: 'You're 20 years old and you can't help a 60-year-old worker?'
They care more about whether their boots go with their socks. That's why I said stop. The football I knew no longer exists.
Today's young players think first of cars, contracts with their sponsors, and their new boots. It is only after all these things that football comes. For them, their image is the most important thing. Whereas for me, all that mattered was football in its purest form.”