Jonathan Wilson

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3,871 appearances 25 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 1 Sep

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Barham, I think, is somebody who does know what he's talking about.

And he's unconvinced by Bobby Charlton playing in the middle of midfield.

He thinks that it leaves you a little bit exposed.

Yeah, and the way Ramsey looks at this isn't that Bobby Charlton playing in the minimum field is the wrong person.

He says, well, maybe the 4-2-4 isn't the issue.

And you've got Brian James, who again, I think is actually one of the journalists who does read the game pretty well, writing in the mail.

He says, the wingers, especially Connolly, got the ball across often enough, but with no great accuracy.

Right, so maybe...

Why don't we stop using wingers and bolts to the middle of midfield?

Wouldn't that be a great idea?

Yeah, we should just remind people that Bobby Charlton had spent a lot of his early career playing on the left.

He'd been a left winger when he first came through.

And when he first placed for England, he plays on the left.

So I think maybe this is Barham's point of could he go back to the left?

So it's not quite as a bleaker way of looking at it as it may seem from our perspective where we think of him as a central driving player.

He had played on the left previously.

So I think that's what Barham's driving at.

But then there's this other issue, and this is an issue that will become hugely important come World Cup itself, which is that of Jimmy Greaves.

So this is Donald Saunders in the Telegraph.

So few goals have been scored by this side in the past year that the attack seems to suffer an anxiety neurosis when an opportunity presents itself.

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