CONOR’S A COOL QAT

FROM JOHN CROSS in Doha CONOR COADY has insisted England will not melt under the World Cup pressure. England boss Gareth Southgate deliberately organised training sessions in the lunchtime heat in

Qatar to get his players acclimatised to the roasting 30-plus degree temperatures.

Group rivals Wales put their sessions back to later in the afternoon but Coady (left) says England will enjoy the heat rather than the rain back home (above, Trent Alexander-arnold).

“It’s something we have got to prepare for over the next few weeks. We are all preparing for the same thing,” said the Three Lions defender. “We trained and worked our socks off. Training has been great. We are trying to embrace it as much as we can.

“We started at 12.30 and it was lovely. It was top drawer! We kind of embrace what is coming our way because we don’t get this chance very often back home when it is freezing cold!

“It was hard this morning. It was a long session and it was something we needed as a team to get used to it, to feel it, to understand it

“It’s tough, of course it’s tough. I’m not going to sit here and say it’s not tough but we’re professional players, we understand what we are doing. “Going out there and thinking it’s too hot, it will get us nowhere.”