Football Daily | Lads, it’s Gibraltar! Wales on the rocks after post-season friendly flop
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The British overseas territory of Gibraltar has an official population of 32,688. If it were sawn off the Iberian peninsula and reattached to the north side of the Bristol Channel, it would be Wales’s 13th-largest settlement, tucked in between Caerphilly and Pontypridd. At its narrowest point, just north of the airport runway that backs on to its national and only football stadium, it is around 400m wide. With a fair wind, Wayne Hennessey might be able to boot a football right across it.
May I congratulate you on your photo in Wednesday’s Football Daily with a smiling James Maddison and Jack Grealish ‘looking forward to the Euros’, while giving it the thumbs up from the England training HQ. Are you Mystic Meg in disguise, or do you have a mole in the camp?” – Stevie Ewens.
I really wonder if Gareth Southgate uses the same method as, say, the draw for the fifth round of the FA Cup on the One Show. Pick 26 balls with squad numbers on out of a bag [now that would improve international football – Football Daily Ed]” – Neil Carter.
Given the 19-1 vote by Premier League clubs to retain VAR (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition), am I right in assuming that only Gary O’Neil will be allowed to complain about contentious decisions next season?” – David Madden.
Before football was invented, we used to play a game roughly similar. It’s box was only for opening on Saturdays, though, and inside were playing pieces including full-backs, half-backs, inside-forwards and centre-forwards. It was best if you could gather a stopper, a chopper and a centre-forward who was a whopper for your team. Now we have Rice who I learn is a six, but could be an eight, Kane who is a proper nine, and Saka who is a wide seven. Are these shoe sizes?” – Dave.
Worried about the increased cost of season tickets (yesterday’s Football Daily)? Give them up and get emotionally attached to a local non-league team instead. Come on you Bluebells!” – Phil Bloomfield, Yate Town FC supporter.
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