Paul Watson

It's my third year and I've retained the gig.

Initially, they wanted Jeff Stelling, but he was otherwise engaged.

And I've just sort of stuck in there and kept taking it.

As long as Jeff keeps in work, I keep the Football in Berkshire Awards.

No, there's no reason why he can't.

But I think in qualification, they just didn't look impressive.

There was this thumping 6-0 win against Slovakia that secured it.

But that really put a gloss on what was a pretty grim qualification campaign.

If you're in a group with Slovakia, Northern Ireland and Luxembourg, it's not a massively strong group and they made pretty hard work of it.

and a note on the striker situation I feel quite sorry for Denis Undov because he's actually been playing really well as we've kind of alluded to but there's a sense I think I don't know whether this has been explicit or just implied but there's a sense that Nagelsmann has basically said to him you're a sub you know you'll be an impact sub whatever you do so I don't really think he's got any chance of starting so I think it will be Havertz I just yeah I fully agree with Wilson on this it's

It's a team that looks great until you really scratch down into it and then you find little holes.

And I don't think they can go much further than probably last 16.

Yeah, imagine, right?

I imagine that's his priority.

But he was that amazing story, wasn't he, at AFCON 2023, where they were hosting it and all these expectations.

And then they had this dreadful group stage.

They lost 4-0 to Equatorial Guinea.

And, like, sacked the coach on the spot, Jean-Louis Gasset, and brought in MSFA.

Yeah.

So he just got put in as the head, and then won it.