Clive Walker
Stand Or Fall
Poor Leeds fans saying white would have kicked on and got England recognition sooner if he played for a big club.
In other news. I note Leeds striker and second highest scoring Englishman in the league is not in the squad. Odd.
Interesting point but you need to look at it less simplistically. I gather Southgate prefers to play with one no 9. He has Kane and Calvert Lewin as first and second choice with other players that can play as a false 9 (ie rashford, sterling etc). So it was always going to be a challenge for Bamford given the competition.
White on the other hand benefits from being versatile and while Southgate obviously has some concerns over Maguirs's fitness so his chances were much higher.
To look at it more simplistically about who a player plays for is fine but only answers half the question. Given what I just said and the season that Leeds had I would not have been surprised if White got a call up earlier. His profile would have been even higher than it already is.
I'll caveat this with the fact that I have disliked Leeds for longer than last summer and was as pi??ed off as any of you over last summers saga from their fans.