Dave Jones

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank being our guest.

We thought we'd do something with an England theme.

Jimmy was, of course, part of Gareth Southgate's coaching staff involved in the Euros, got all the way to the final.

We don't need to revisit that, Jimmy.

But we're really interested to talk to you about the process that comes pretty much right now for Thomas Tuchel, because here we are, the end of January, the World Cup starts in the middle of June and we have some games in March and that's pretty much it.

in terms of the preparation.

So he's only got one final chance to have a look at any players before he makes his final selection.

So will those selection meetings have already started with an eye on the World Cup, do you think?

make those eight a nine and then the midfielders a seven, for instance, or you take... You quite often see an eight, a sort of eight, eight, four, wouldn't you, formation with three goalkeepers, you'd have eight defenders, eight midfielders, four sort of attacking players, but that's changed now because after the COVID and the squads got bigger and we've stuck with the 26-man squad.

So it's almost as if you've got two players, outfield players for each position.

An extra.

Three wildcards.

Yes.

So we've started this process with Jamie picking what are your certainties.

And I think we probably, if we all did this exercise, you'd all be able to sort of come up with 10 names that you, we'd all come up with similar 10 names, I guess, that sort of thing about who we definitely think will go.

So this is Jamie's list of certainties.

And it is 10 that Jamie's starting with.

Are there any that you would add to that, Jimmy, do you think, on first glance, that you think will definitely or should definitely be on the plane?

Well, for me... Without debate?

So let's start with the goalkeepers then.