LATEST SPORTS NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n“Did England play the cricket that they’d been playing previously to win that final? Did they heck. They had to dig deep and play the old school horrible way, but they won.<\/p>\n
“They are remembered as winners. I always revert back to the Newcastle football side of the 1990s – the Kevin Keegan era. <\/p>\n
“Bloody great, we talk about them, but they didn’t win. Make sure you’re not that. Make sure that you’re not the most entertaining England that’s ever been, but not won an Ashes. Don’t leave it until 2027.<\/p>\n
“I just want to see that ruthless approach this summer and if you get on a winning run, win every game.<\/p>\n
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Ben Stokes will feature for England against India despite his injury woes<\/p>\n
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“I look at all high-level sports teams and I don’t see a relaxed environment. I see a high intensity, high performance environment, and that’s sometimes tough, hard work. It’s not always smiles and patting on the back.<\/p>\n
“They’re trying to do something different but I’ve not seen a sporting team win in that fashion. I go back to the 2003 Rugby World Cup winners, and Clive Woodward was completely on the one percenters. I watch football all the time, and I look at Pep Guardiola, Arne Slot teams.<\/p>\n
“This cricket set-up has been quite relaxed, enjoyable and fun, but don’t tell me the England side from 2010-2004, the number one team in the world, didn’t enjoy it.<\/p>\n
“And they enjoyed it because they were winning. And that is the most important aspect about any aspect of sport. You enjoy it a lot more when you’re winning and lifting trophies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England cricket legend Michael Vaughan has admitted he’s ‘staggered’ that Ben Stokes will be skippering the side during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-197292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114710379649332884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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