Chilled Cole Palmer ready to play ‘wherever’ and win spot in England XI

Cole Palmer says the heat ‘will play a part’ at the World Cup next summer, but doesn’t expect it to be ‘a big problem’. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/The FA/Getty Images

Things that Cole Palmer is not bothered about, part 89: golf. Which is a pity as he is spending a warm-weather training week with England at the magnificent Camiral Golf & Wellness resort; the expected venue for the 2031 Ryder Cup.

Formula One. Palmer attended the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday with Thomas Tuchel and the rest of the England squad, which he thought was good. “I went to the one in Abu Dhabi not long ago,” he says, presumably meaning the race in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia. Who knows, who cares? “But I fell asleep at that one.”