“I am OK with that,” Tottenham head coach Mourinho replied when asked about England skipper Kane playing 76 minutes in the game against Iceland. “A national team match should never be a dead rubber. “I don’t want to spend much time on the national team stuff – Gareth Southgate, I read, supposedly told that some football club managers put pressure on their players not to play for the national team. “When Eric Dier left the national team injured in the previous month, he didn’t play two matches for Tottenham. He didn’t play a Premier League match and a Europa League match.

Source: Express November 20, 2020 14:30 UTC