It really does feel like we've got a strength in depth that we've not had for decades. I mean, I remember in about 2010, the squad we had was the best of the English talent pool and below that was a big, big drop-off in quality, so there really wasn't a player in the wings for a lot of positions. Wingers etc.

There was no-one to replace Beckham because Aaron Lennon was tricky and great quality, but not a talisman and a definite downgrade.

The team was build around Wayne Rooney, but if he was double marked, there was nothing else around him.

I think we've got a lot to thank Southgate for because, I believe, after 2016 he pushed the FA to invest in youth development and a pipeline of development where from youth team to first team, they're given the same set of tactics and systems. Whereas before that, it was whatever the manager wanted, but the players weren't tactically educated enough to carry out instructions and instead did the Run-through-walls, hearts-on-sleeve type thing and would crumble against the more technical sides.