Rob Draper
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Appearances Over Time
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We're saving that for part three, but wait for that.
And France have to win this game to qualify.
So they're going to be a lot more open.
So suddenly, rather than having Uruguay sitting deep in the opening game, you've got a team that are coming out to play.
So it's going to be a lot easier.
And France aren't the powerhouse that obviously they will be.
in the late 90s and sort of subsequently in this century.
So England expected to win.
They do win 2-0, two Roger Hunt goals.
It's a fairly comfortable... It feels like all the angst of that Uruguay game has kind of been dissipated in Bobby's Mexico goal.
And this feels like, OK, we're now getting somewhere.
So he's still playing, still persisting with wingers at this point?
And you think he is hiding his grand master plan for the latter stages.
And the fact that there's different wingers every time does suggest that he's got something out of his sleeve.
It's not like he's got a settled side and he knows who the winger is.
Like the old wingback.
With fullbacks now, you tend to try and rest them because you're asking so much of them.
And he knows he's going to have to ask a lot of running from Ball and Peters.
I don't completely blame them for that because that is part of your role as a football association.
I mean, primarily you want to win games, but someone behaving that badly...