Ben Whittaker

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3,043 appearances 5 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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Stick to Football · Kane to the Rescue! Mexico Will Be Tough & Who Stops France? · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

He used to be very good at it until he lost his legs in this last couple of years.

Robertson was very good at getting out to people quickly.

I tell you who's brilliant at it, by the way, the two Arsenal full-backs in the day, Winterburn and Dixon, they would get out to people quickly.

Have you read the Strelitz?

to them I'm serious absolutely Don Howe Don Howe was their sort of mentor as a back four he would say get out there quickly get back in get out there quickly get back in that's how we were trained I don't think they get the exact same sort of training now to be fair probably not no because again the obsession is what you're like in possession when we see fullbacks going from 40, 50, 60 million the first thing you say about the amount of fullback now is people like Trent and all this brilliant going forward

Do you know the only caveat to that?

Let's say Argentina play against France at some point in this World Cup, and you're playing against a team that's not particularly great in the air, but they're amazing one-on-one.

You might just stay narrow, both midfield and... And you might say, actually, let him have it, let him rush it.

It sounds crazy because if you're Romero and you're Martinez and you're the two defender full-backs for Argentina, you're probably thinking, if we stay together as a tight four and just say, now wait for them to come into us.

So sometimes City wingers sometimes get left with the ball out there because they want to stop the spaces occurring in the middle of the pitch.

So I think if you're playing against a France now, I'd be thinking...

I probably wouldn't mind them crossing it.

Look, as long as we stayed out of our box.

But you're right, in a general game where you're playing against the Kakus of this world and Harlins and Canes, you've got to stop crossing.

That's proven to be quite popular.

I say popular, quite effective.

The soft cross is actually... Because they can go and attack us.

What we're giving Tuchel as a mark out in terms of how he managed that game today.

he's been brave with substitutions and to be fair put him right at right back and take in the gamble a little bit although that was the assistant he said yeah but you know something that's fine but fair play for coming out and saying it was the assistant I always say this it's not the assistant because if he gets knocked out of the competition and declares gives a goal away he's not then saying it's his assistant so it's still him but I agree with it is there something that to be fair we were saying in the room when we were watching it we thought it should happen before it happened

The players were in, Roy, to be fair, at 60 minutes today, and we were quite relaxed about it, to be fair, so it wasn't us.

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