POPE & GLORY

SOME are saying the cupboard must be bare if Burnley players are called into the England set-up but I say give them a chance.

If Gareth Southgate had gone back to the old guard we’d all have been screeching from the rooftops that he wasn’t giving youth its head.

By including James Tarkowski and Nick Pope, he is telling every young player eligible to represent England that they have a chance, no matter who they play for, and that’s got to be a good thing.