Just weird. What was he thinking?
You can't say he was taken as backup for Rice and Anderson just in case, because as it turned out there were times in the tournament he needed to replace or rest them, and he still never used Mainoo. Absolutely no logic to picking him at all.
Posted By: Tricky Hawes on July 16th 2026 at 09:57:29
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- England players who’ve enhanced their reputations (Other Football) - Old Git, Jul 16, 08:56:12
- Rice did not have a good tournament (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Jul 16, 11:19:02
- Anderson is the £116m bargain (Other Football) - JoeyDeacon, Jul 16, 10:34:09
- Spence and Gordon for me. (n/m) (Other Football) - Augustus Pablo, Jul 16, 10:28:18
- spence was excellent last night (n/m) (Other Football) - paulg, Jul 16, 09:45:21
- Wharton (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 16, 08:59:43
- Palmer by the same logic I guess (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Git, Jul 16, 09:02:26
- Don’t get me started on this…FFS why wasn’t he there? (n/m) (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Jul 16, 09:00:19
- Dunno. Didn't understand before the tournament, all th more so now (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 16, 09:02:02
- Mainoo kicked his heels all tournament (Other Football) - jamesward, Jul 16, 09:13:42
- unforgivable to end up with players in a WC squad that u don't want at all (n/m) (Other Football) - paulg, Jul 16, 09:51:44
- Just weird. What was he thinking? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 16, 09:57:29
- and given the conditions, and game frequency ... the strain put on others unnecessarily (n/m) (Other Football) - paulg, Jul 16, 09:59:35
- Just weird. What was he thinking? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 16, 09:57:29
- unforgivable to end up with players in a WC squad that u don't want at all (n/m) (Other Football) - paulg, Jul 16, 09:51:44
- Mainoo kicked his heels all tournament (Other Football) - jamesward, Jul 16, 09:13:42
- Dunno. Didn't understand before the tournament, all th more so now (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 16, 09:02:02
- Guehi was pretty immaculate (n/m) (Other Football) - jamesward, Jul 16, 08:57:56
- He was good, agreed. Quietly excellent. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 16, 09:00:16
- Spence (Other Football) - CauldRon, Jul 16, 08:57:23
- Spence obviously (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jul 16, 08:57:18
- Spence (n/m) (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Jul 16, 08:57:06
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