{"id":990775,"date":"2026-05-28T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/990775\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:58:13","slug":"adam-wharton-not-going-to-sit-and-cry-over-england-world-cup-snub-as-crystal-palace-star-lifts-lid-on-thomas-tuchel-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/990775\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Wharton &#8216;not going to sit and cry&#8217; over England World Cup snub as Crystal Palace star lifts lid on Thomas Tuchel call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Palace star also opened up about the direct communication he received from the national team manager. In a professional exchange, Tuchel reached out to the youngster to deliver the news personally, noting that the selection process had been tight right up until the final deadline.\n<\/p>\n<p>Wharton detailed the conversation, stating: &#8220;When he called me, he just told me I wasn&#8217;t there. He said it was close. But yeah, like I said, that&#8217;s football. I&#8217;m not going to sit here and cry about it. Still had two games for Palace to go. Obviously tonight being a massive one, I don&#8217;t really dwell on those things too much. It&#8217;s not the end of the world. I&#8217;m still young.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Palace star also opened up about the direct communication he received from the national team manager. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":990776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[213554,748,5667,1925,275151,393,4884,101,102180,54989,16,15,1514],"class_list":["post-990775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-a-wharton","tag-britain","tag-conference-league","tag-crystal-palace","tag-crystal-palace-vs-rayo-vallecano","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-premier-league","tag-rayo-vallecano","tag-t-tuchel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116653975745552379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990775","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=990775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}