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  • get the 2006 tournament with England a problem now forgot of South Gate.

  • There's talk of injuries to Rashford and Harry Kane.

  • Obviously, Rooney had an injury, I think very late in the season.

  • Metatarsal Jack.

  • She looked back and with more experience of that, do you think it's still the right thing to do to take injured players?

  • Or do you think it actually didn't wait for England?

  • Were not just with him.

  • Obviously, I think David back in, I think in 2002 also, yes, but if you give me a very good alternative, I might think different.

  • But when you go to a big tournament and this is 2006 if Rooney has a small chance to play, you have to pick him like Beckham.

  • 2000 to Jerry Attles.

  • You cannot keep them out because we had a lot of good football players but we don't have that good.

  • You don't have a second roomie so you had to take the risk with him.

  • We had Owen who had been struggling with injuries as well.

  • I think yes, exactly.

  • You have Peter Crouch.

  • Yes, so had to questionable fitness concerns.

  • Peter Crouch, and your fourth striker was famously Theo Walcott Walcott and he should have played.

  • But at the end, the last game we got Rooney sent off and then it's no time to put in another strike.

  • You stick by that decision all these years on to take fear.

  • Alternative.

  • Waas Ah difficult, difficult.

  • What was that?

  • I was not regular at that time.

  • I was, I was.

  • I was.

  • I was in the squad, but there's no doubt in the squad when the squad gets picked.

  • Players talk about who's in the squad who has missed out.

  • It was a big surprise.

  • Theo Walcott was in it because he hadn't played for a national.

  • Was a lot of that.

  • Maybe all your conversations with arson venga couldn't have seen him play too much.

  • Not to what we We went to see him, but not too much and talks with Gail.

  • Yes, of course, but the one.

  • So you know, if you don't have a clear one, why don't take a young, talented one for the future?

  • Because the player picked as number 23 will not win the World Cup for you, for sure.

  • Now we was unlucky because of Rooney's and history tells us from that.

  • Jimmy Greaves was England's top striker in 66 Jeff first came along very late in the day.

  • Yeah, but I don't think we had anyone who could go in and score three goals may be going back to actually, really with the injury.

  • How how to offer fight was enough for you.

  • Try to get him to the Wheel Corp was obviously Manchester United.

  • These their superstar player, they want to get him ready for next season Was that it was a problem for you between club in country?

  • Yeah, it was a big problem between Sir Alex and myself.

  • He didn't want to release him for England, but it became a question by doctors as well.

  • Manchester United Doctor, an England doctor and at the end Ah, thing that doctor, he's a specialist of these kind of injury, is operating hundreds every year.

  • So we got insurance that he can play maybe not the first game, but he can play, then his condition is another thing, but he would be able to play without any risk and we had the independent doctors as well their toe check everything every day.

  • So it was.

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