THE JUGGLER
Well that de-escalated quickly. It took seven minutes for Ollie Watkins to score England’s opening goal in Greece on Thursday night, prompting those who had savaged Lee Carsley for having the effrontery to pick a prolific goalscorer in a relatively unimportant game to be confronted with the confusing thought that their pre-match keyboard posturing may not have been entirely proportionate. The Watkins volte-face, although we should really call it a volte-farce given the buffoonery of the more extreme protagonists, symbolised another peculiar night in Carsley’s interim reign. He’ll go down in history as England’s BFG: their Bald Fraud/Genius, with one of the nouns to be deleted depending on what has happened in the last 60 seconds and which way your knee is jerking at the time. The bald bit is non-negotiable.
