Southgate, Holland and Russell need to push the England players to get the best out of them LEE SMITH/REUTERSFour days before England met Iceland at Euro 2016, Roy Hodgson organised his players for a finishing drill in one half of a full-size pitch. Wayne Rooney looked to feed overlapping full backs, Kyle Walker and Nathaniel Clyne on the right and Danny Rose and Ryan Bertrand on the left, who trundled down the flank and then provided crosses for four forwards to supposedly terrorise two defenders. By the end of that exercise, which was part of an open training session at the Stade de Bourgognes in Chantilly, the ignominy that was about to follow in Nice could well have been predicted. Only ten minutes in, Hodgson was bawling out his players for a lack of quality, while some of them were muttering under their…

Source: The Times June 04, 2019 22:52 UTC