Adam Crafton
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864 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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But as we said, it's still a pretty good finish.
for the tournament I think it is just this feeling of you know what could have been and that will stay I think one of the challenges he's going to have is perhaps actually the credibility with the players and how the players felt about that night and what the decisions that were made that's the thing that worries me more is that so
And what I would add to that is, if you think back to the Croatia game, I think he took Rice off, he took Baby Bellingham off.
Substitutes were bang on.
Substitutes were bang on, but also he was taking off big players at big moments of games.
And we were all there saying, we love that he's prepared to take the big decisions, that he's got this iron will.
The only thing I wonder coming out of this tournament, if you look at some of those big, big club coaches, you know, Ancelotti with Brazil, Tuchel with England, Pochettino.
When it came to those real kind of clutch moments,
they came up short in international football.
I would say that.
I mean, I think the point you make about kind of homegrown coaches is important because when you watch this Argentina team, and I think the Spanish one is, there's two models, right?
You either have the coach that comes through the federation
with a style of play Lee Carsley yeah Lee Carsley quite right that's one model the other model is you develop this kind of band of brothers which is what Argentina have and this real feeling I mean you saw when they sung the national anthem I've never seen anything like that there's another thing that goes against us ours is too short
No, for sure.
What worries me a little bit, particularly for the next World Cup, not to look too far, is I'm not sure in key positions we actually have the quality of player that will be being replaced.
One in particular.
One in particular.
particular up front but I also think John Stones stepping out centre defence and I think we may have a goalkeeper problem as well in four years time so they are three pretty key positions that I don't think you can win a World Cup without so we need players to emerge now there's four years for that to happen I think centre forward only I honestly think that's the position and I think there are ways around that in systems or whatever not every well one of the few nations play with an out and out centre forward these
Pep, who we've anointed as our next coach, did, of course, sign James Trafford and then sign someone else.
That was circumstance.
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