Wasn't a dive, he was hit in the face. He clearly wasn't concussed but I've never seen a ref allow a freekick to be taken like that when a player is on the floor.
He's not getting in ahead of Maguire and Stones who are the two more experienced heads. If he was clearly first choice back up then fair enough, but he's not better than Konsa, Gomez etc who all have youth on their side and can contribute to future tournaments. Just seems a massive waste of a spot to me.
What's the actual point of playing him. He's 32, barely got a look in for England and all this does is now block players like Konsa, Branthwaite, Gomez from gaining the match experience they need for future years.
He actually had a pretty consistent run when he first joined, after that first international break between middle of Feb to middle of March he started every game and his minutes were 77, 90, 90 85, 80, 76, 90, 90.
He was never injured under Gerrard.
Zero interest in that for me, can't see how that doesn't die off within a few weeks. There's other sites that do weekly games like this but with 5-10k prize pools. You've got FanDuel and Draftkings for more advanced weekly formats, they are paid contests though.
FPLs only market is that they are the most popular and easy to use season long format. Bit annoying they are actually wasting their time with this when they have done nothing to improve the main game for years, they can't even be bothered to change the chip strategy. I'm all for more chips and variety, bring back in all out attack (useful purely for when you have a defensive crisis or a benching dilemma) and change the Triple Captain so you actually pick 3 different captains in the same GW.
Wouldn't mind if we had double chip selections either, we get 2 WCs a season, make it 2 of every chip and they have to be used in each half of the season.
I don't know how he makes the squad, let alone a starting CB. One of the main reasons he even offers anything is because waistcoats set up is just to play for set plays and always get it straight into the box. Basically the international version of old Stoke.
Don't really care about anything he's said in an interview as long as he performs on the pitch for us. Every single one of our players is going to leave if a top CL or title challenging team come in for them, games the game.
Looks like he's not playing for Jamaica though and gets 2 weeks rest, which is great news. More of our players retiring from international football the better, Watkins is going to start for England later and I'll be counting down the minutes until he's subbed off.
I don't think he gets a Premier League job. Not even teams like Bournemouth, Palace or Fulham would want him. Maybe a promoted team that sacks the manager early doors gives him a chance but I honestly can't see it.