"Until Wilfred Zaha can prove he can sit on the bench, week after week, at a top top club, then he won't get to sit on the bench for the England squad. It's as simple as that."

Not my words, but the type of words that you'd hear from footballing sage Alan Shearer.

Wilf needs to show he has the temperament to sit impassively on the sides, without getting angry, while James Milner, Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane tap endless, impotent side passes, before eventually the ball goes off for a throw in.

Hope he does so we stop getting these stupid threads everytime the squad is announced. Wilf is not good enough for England. On current form neither is Townsend.
Players at top clubs are always going to get picked ahead of players at the lesser clubs as the big clubs are watched more by the England management.I cannot think of any top 6 side that Wilf would get into and play week in week out so why would he be picked for England?.

It's that logic that has been England's undoing for the last 20 years. If we're applying that rule then Townsend and Lingard also shouldn't be in there, as the latter isn't playing week in week out.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

clearly Tottenham aren't a top 6 side who tried getting him in the summer then?

Watch Wilf leave in January and suddenly make the squad. Southgate and Wilf have previous in the U21 set up, My understanding is that Wilf fell out with a few over the way he went about things.

Probably because the only top side was M.City who kicked off at 3pm Saturday.Not much point watching them as they do not have many English players.