Paul Robinson
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994 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Paul Robinson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It ruffled a few feathers.
They stayed in the game, obviously, until half-time.
Without doubt, without doubt they have, because they were so submissive when changes were made.
Regardless of what you think of a back five, when you're in that situation, you're protecting a lead, the back five is going to be five, the midfield's sat on top of you, and England just went very, very deep, and they just invited the pressure on them.
England have played to their strengths for a lot of this tournament, but actually against Mexico, with ten men, they used the same tactic, and it worked, and actually I said to John and a couple of the people I had a chat with, I said, that could have been a stick that was used to beat him, if that had gone wrong, but he got away with that, so we're praising him, saying his in-game management's been good and his changes have been good, but because it hasn't worked for him today, that will be the stick that is used to beat him, because it was so blatantly obvious the pattern of the game changed.
Well, if that was the message, it fell upon deaf ears because the England players didn't
and what the manager wanted of them, because as soon as they got the first goal, that was it.
They were very submissive, sat off, went into a defensive mode, but I find it hard to believe that was the message, because then we had the hydration break and the changes were made, and he made those defensive changes at that point.
If that wasn't the message, you make a different tactical change.
I don't think you can play for that long against Argentina in that way.
France 4, Argentina 3 in Russia 2018.
Amazing goal from Benjamin Pavard in that game on the half volley.
They immediately went into protection mode.
You can say that the manager didn't say go defensive, but it is natural at times, and if you are going to win big games on big occasions, you have to suffer at times, but you don't invite the suffering on.
You don't want the suffering, but there will be periods of the game.
But to change it as he did, and then to invite a team like Argentina onto you for 30 minutes, it's not going to happen.
And I think, yes, there is an element of self-belief in that, but there's a number of games, it's a knockout tournament, so it's hard at times not to have that mentality, protect what you have and get over the line.
But England were poor in that last 20, 25 minutes, and the manager's changes didn't assist in any way.
No, you don't remember them normally, do you?
Unless it was your country, the team that comes third or fourth in a World Cup.
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