Rob Draper
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But I always think it's a bit of a con when the manager falls back on.
Yeah, I was watching slightly different games.
I'm on a higher level.
And what you don't understand is that we play some brilliant football despite our 5-0 defeat.
You know, we actually, you know, if you break it down on the data, we look fantastic.
But yeah, I mean, I do think there is another thing where coaches do have a different eye for the game than we do.
And we're, of course, focused on outcome.
And they are trying to see a progression.
And you can see, but Gareth fell, Southgate fell on this quite a lot.
And Tuchel's done it quite recently, saying, well, yeah, but it might have been a bad defeat.
But I saw some things that were quite encouraging.
When you showed me that formation of 4-2-4 with Bobby in central midfield, I just thought, I mean, that can't, even in the 60s, that can't work.
Yeah, I mean, the key thing is Bobby Charlton is perhaps your best attacking player.
How can we make the system serve him?
And that is what Ramsey is going to do spectacularly well at the World Cup.
Which, again, I think speaks to Ramsey's brilliance.
It takes a very brave man to leave out an iconic figure.
We don't know, as we record this, we don't know whether Neymar's going to go to the World Cup with Brazil.
But, you know, I imagine Carlo might be quite hard-nosed on that decision.
But when you've got an iconic national figure who is just seen as great, but perhaps his past is best...