There are times when new players replace injured players in the national squad. Since the new players don't have enough experience and match practice at the international level, they seldom play under a lot of pressure.
If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.
Players that have had less minutes on the pitch compared to the usual starting XI will naturally concede more chances.
That's always a concern with a player when he's injured. There's a difference between injured and pain. If a guy's injured, he's injured. Pain is pain. Guys can play with pain. Guys can't play when they're injured.
Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.
The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.
As players, we only get opportunities when players get injured and you never want to see anyone get injured.
Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.
The coach is the one who eventually decides who makes the starting XI.
In a Game Community, the rules and officials decide if the players are good enough to play. If not, they change players. In a Play Community, the players decide if the game is fun enough to play. If not, they change rules.
I fought all my life to be at Real Madrid, to try to be in the starting XI.
It was hard every time I found out that I was not in the starting XI.
I have had to work hard to get in the starting XI for England.
It's a different style the way the German players play. I think the English players like to play a lot of one and two touch and we can find each other in the pockets.
Some guys, when they are starting they play better. Starting means a lot to them.
You can play with a brain that is injured - you can't play with an injured knee. That's the problem.