England arrived at Le Bourget Airport on yesterday afternoon, with the northern-based players boarding at Manchester before stopping at Luton to collect the rest of the party and flying onto Paris.
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And after training at the Stade de Bourgognes in the town, the Tottenham Hotspur star revealed he has been impressed with the set-up for both work and down-time.
The excitement around England’s Euro 2016 squad is reaching fever pitch according to captain Wayne Rooney.
And players admitted they were left smiling by the incident, Andy King saying: “That’s just him showing his humour, letting his hair down, shows the relaxed atmosphere we’ve got in the camp at the moment”.
Joe Hart has been England’s Number 1 goalkeeper for the last few years and will definitely don the gloves for the Three Lions.
“The idea was hopefully people would see that and Chris thought that was quite amusing and then he put a team together that obviously not all of them were eligible for Wales!”.
Russian Federation meanwhile has struggled heading into this tournament and while they have been powers on the world stage before I just don’t see this being their year as they are a far cry from where they have been in recent memory.
“We’re not just going to have 11 players that are going to feature, if we are going to do well then you need the whole 23”.
Performances in those three warm-up games were not great; in fact, they weren’t even good.
“It’s an exciting young squad”.
“We’re proud you’ve chosen Chantilly and we’ll follow you throughout the tournament”.
It might not be an England squad fully comprised of Tottenham’s starting XI, but having five starters from Mauricio Pochettino’s squad is still very good. “You know their weaknesses and strengths and obviously they know yours so it’s obviously good”.
Hodgson has repeatedly made it clear he does not want his players negotiating transfers during the tournament, so in theory Vardy must sort out any move within three days or wait until later this summer.
“I think maybe a factor in the Premier League you maybe do one or two fouls before a booking comes, whereas now they may clamp down sooner”, Smalling, sent off in last month’s FA Cup final, said.
“I think you look at players’ mentalities and they bounce back”, Sturridge said when asked about whether the scars of Brazil could linger. I am excited and just soaking up the atmosphere. “I went away, chilled out”, he said.
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“It’s hard because I’ve gone into every tournament confident and felt like we’ve been ready”.
