Amad Diallo’s not coming back to Sunderland, is he?
Jonathan Wilson
@jonawils
Football writer, author of Inverting the Pyramid, Angels with Dirty Faces and 12 other football books; editor of The Blizzard; jonawils.substack.com
Joined August 2010
- No Englishman has had a bigger impact on this tournament than Michael Oliver. At last we have somebody who can sit in the middle of the park and dictate the game. Proud. 🏴
- Last time England reached a European Under-21 final was in 2009 when they lost to Germany. Six of Germany’s squad went on to win the World Cup, seven of England's went on to play for Sunderland.
- Puskás, Di Stefano, Puskás, Prati, Lookman... the only hat-tricks in major European finals.
- Fair play to Florentino Pérez. He said modern attention spans were getting shorter, looked at the 123-year-old Football League, realised that wouldn't do, and devised a competition that was done and dusted 48 hours after it began.
- Who'd have thought Anthony Martial breaking down in the warm-up against Midtjylland in February 2016 would lead to this?
Happy Christmas- So what did you do at the weekend? Me? I flew 7000 miles to watch a game not being played, twice.
