Jordan Pickford

We're there, they're not.

Paul and Lloyd, I'm assuming you're friends because Lloyd is apparently friends with every goalkeeper.

Do you think he's mentioned it a couple of times?

Yeah, I heard a bit of that as well.

Well, no, I haven't mentioned that, but I do keep mentioning to Paul that the last time Paul, well, last time Tottenham Hotspur played Grimsby, Paul was in goal and Grimsby beat Tottenham 1-0, Jean-Paul Kamara-Makalala in the 88th minute and he hates it.

Any fault on your part for the goal, Paul, remember it?

They absolutely did, bless us.

Now, Thomas Tuchel has just finished his press conference.

John, you sat down with him.

How was he, in good spirits?

Yeah, I sensed a little bit of an edge compared to the other experiences I've had with him over the course of the last 18 months plus, and I can understand that, because this is where it really begins for him, in earnest, because that's what he's employed to do, to win the World Cup for England, and it's all stretching out.

It's very real now.

and I think there was also a tinge of disappointment the fact that they've lost Tino Livramento so that was that was you know probably eating away somewhere in there but also you know he was he was talking about

You know, thinking about when he was a youngster coming to the World Cup as a coach and what a, you know, it seems the suggestion was that, you know, that was like a million miles away from him when he was a boy to think that he would come to the World Cup.

So I think there's an edge of excitement, actually, as much as anything else about the fact that he will be involved in the World Cup for the first time.

Well, let's hear from him now.

Thomas, desperately disappointing news about Tino Livramento.

But...

On the eve of England's first match at this World Cup, what are you here to do?

To temper expectations or to talk it up?