Raheem Sterling is flying home to be with his family following a break-in and there are no guarantees he will be available for England’s World Cup quarter-final on Saturday, according to Gareth Southgate.
Sterling was absent from the Three Lions’ team who beat Senegal 3-0 on Sunday night to book a tie against defending champions France. The Chelsea attacker trained with the squad as normal in the run-up to the match in Qatar, but was then left out for “family reasons”.
It later emerged that his absence was due to a break-in at his family home in Surrey by armed robbers, which occurred on Saturday evening.
