{"id":415986,"date":"2025-09-11T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415986\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:21:14","slug":"tim-sherwood-bizarrely-overlooks-two-newcastle-united-players-in-england-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415986\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Sherwood bizarrely overlooks two Newcastle United players in England selection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pundit Tim Sherwood has overlooked four Newcastle United players when naming his dream England XI. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under Thomas Tuchel, Newcastle United<\/a> have been well-represented among the England<\/a> squad. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Dan Burn<\/a> made his Three Lions debut under Tuchel, while Tino Livramento<\/a> and Anthony Gordon<\/a> have continued their international careers during his tenure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Burn has been something of a mainstay since making his debut in March, although he dropped to the bench for their 5-0 win over Serbia earlier this week. <\/p>\n

Gordon and Livramento, however, started in what was Tuchel\u2019s best win in charge thus far. All three look in the running to earn a place in the England squad for next summer\u2019s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, Sherwood<\/a> couldn\u2019t find a place for any of them when naming the XI he\u2019d ideally like to see.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"DanPhoto by Michael Regan \u2013 The FA\/The FA via Getty ImagesTim Sherwood snubs Dan Burn, Tino Livramento and Anthony Gordon <\/p>\n

Asked by Sky Sports to select the best England team in his view if everyone was fit, Sherwood didn\u2019t include a single member of the Newcastle contingent. <\/p>\n

There are, of course, a lot of good players in the England squad, so that in itself is perhaps not all that surprising. <\/p>\n

However, the players Sherwood picked over the Newcastle stars feel somewhat strange. He selected Reece James over Livramento at left-back, despite the fact the Chelsea star has played there much less than his Newcastle counterpart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s without mentioning a natural left-back in Lewis Hall<\/a>, who surely could have played under Tuchel for England if he didn\u2019t suffer an injury towards the end of last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Selecting Jack Grealish over Gordon as a left-winger also seems strange. Grealish is looking good at Everton but cannot compare with Gordon\u2019s output over the last two seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thomas Tuchel thinks Newcastle United can help England win the World Cup <\/p>\n

The 2024\/25 season in English football was defined by unlikely cup wins. Indeed, Newcastle ended a 70-year wait for a major domestic trophy by lifting the Carabao Cup. <\/p>\n

Crystal Palace and Tottenham, meanwhile, won the FA Cup and the Europa League respectively. <\/p>\n

It proved that trophy droughts, no matter how long they may be, can come to an end. That could be significant for England, who haven\u2019t won a major international trophy since 1966.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For that reason, Tuchel thinks teams like Newcastle can help England win the 2026 World Cup<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In March, he told ITV: \u201cIt was 70 years for Newcastle and it was different. And it was also different because they were in the second final [having lost the 2023 Carabao Cup final]. <\/p>\n

\u201cI strongly believe in this. It felt very different how they approached the second final in a short period of time and it will help us.\u201d <\/p>\n

With that in mind, it makes sense as to why Tuchel has been leaning on a few Newcastle players thus far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pundit Tim Sherwood has overlooked four Newcastle United players when naming his dream England XI. \u00a0 Under Thomas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[16404,748,52136,393,4884,142707,126798,67333,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-415986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-anthony-gordon","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-dan-burn","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-lewis-hall","14":"tag-tim-sherwood","15":"tag-tino-livramento","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115186112084301097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415986","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=415986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}