Tony Adams

So the team was Woods, 4-4-1-1 if you like.

Woods, Gary Stephens, Dave Watson, Tony Adams, Kelly Sansom, Trevor Stephens, Steve McMahon, Brian Robson, John Barnes, Glenn Hoddle, Gary Lineker.

Lineker nearly didn't play.

And there's a lot of talk about him having some kind of mysterious illness, which we know now is hepatitis B.

And when you see the highlights, that's not an outrageous claim.

But England were wide open from beginning to end, weren't they, Rob?

Yeah, they were awful, weren't they? I mean, the more I watch this, the more I kind of feel sorry for Tony Adams because he was scapegoated.

But, yeah, there's so much.

It's one of the tactics to get into.

You remember Tony Adams putting that arm up all the time.

that kind of arm up and you know oh it's asking for offset it's not even offset but the referee can't see it or the line is not even fit enough to run behind you know uh the line and that was the trick as it's kind of the tactic of the center half hat as well you know you can see uh and that will go away a little bit you know that's part of your game uh you know and we want to make the game too clinical unfortunately and in the industry or anything you're prevention especially in sports when you start to make it too clinical then it's getting too boring there's no surprise in there it's just obvious it's happening and when it's obvious opening what's entertainment behind it Football should be in entertainment.

Football should be seen with the mixtapes coming up.

And he thought he'd be back for this pretty comfortably.

I think he tested his leg out in April and it just was nowhere near strong enough and he had taken a sit-out, which meant you get a really young... centre back pair I think Tony Adams only 21 or something like that around that time Rob and Brian Robson is always an injury concern and as we would find out Gary Lineker's not exactly 100% in terms of his health and I guess one of these stories where on paper everything looks the way the bookies are reading it but there's a kind of untold story there

Yeah, I think Liddick was a big one.

It was an appetite to see how, but no one really at the time.

And the final pièce de résistance, we went back up, had some final, like, you know, drinks.

And Tony Adams arrived.

And he was like, he was like, I haven't got, he was wearing jeans and trainers.

He was like really apologetic.

OK, so John, another question.

Adams, Bold, Campbell, Toure or Saliba Gabriel? I think he was referring to when we were talking about the best.

You talked about the best squad team, didn't you, Chris?

Yeah.

Adams, Bold, Campbell, Toure, Saliba Gabriel for you.

That's really tough.

Adams and Bold was...

I was like a kid, so I wasn't as obsessive about Arsenal.