I get where youre coming from, but that would be an incredibly selfish viewpoint of our fanbase!
Lewis Dunk has given sweat, blood and tears for us for over a decade, he is our leader, our Captain and he's Brighton through and through.
Playing for your country at a major tournamount is a...
He hasnt been poor, hes made a couple of costly mistakes.
But by Southgates metrics in continually picking Slabhead when he wasnt even playing and had numerous and worse clangers than Dunk.
"He's never let down the national team"
And nor did player of the match Dunk.
Was going to mention the Athletic article too, No Dunk for any of 6 football journalists.
Most have Colwill in and 1 even has Tomori ahead of Dunk which is madness
In that situation, a lot tonight will depend on the German ref and whether he will be fooled to keep stopping the play when they inevitably start rolling around doing their Wilf Zaha tribute act.
If it wasn't already ominous enough. Just checked Romas recent record in all competitions 😞
In last 7 games they are unbeaten with 4 wins and 3 draws and they have never once failed to score.
In last 12, the are beaten once only by table topping Inter, with 8 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss......and...
If you or I ever used such racist langauge (not that we ever would), I feel pretty certain the long arm of the law would be at our front doors.
"Sorry officer I didn't mean my hate speech or calls to shoot someone, I'm really not an actual racist"
"Well that's all good then, we'll pretend it...
hmmm a ruse?
Says Lukaku is not injured and is also not fully fit? which is odd as hes just payed and very much looked fit, and why training away from main squad?
Internal bust up? All a bit weird.
Edit: this says Lukaku will travel but start on bench with Dybala...