former captains, alan shearer and gary lineker. particularly well and the men who have worn the ship before with the media looking into saying certain things with about a look affects players like eric came in the more experienced players what he did point to some of the other players whose paths had not been to this before. the speaking last night, alan shearer and gary lineker did double damp on those comments. what happens in these press conferences sometimes is journalists use pundits— conferences sometimes is journalists use pundits or even myself on this particular— use pundits or even myself on this particular occasion to try make a point _ particular occasion to try make a point because perhaps they are not quite _ point because perhaps they are not quite brave enough to make it themselves so they use us. i everyone _ themselves so they use us. i everyone is in pretty critical of the england performance, alan, and they had _ the england performance, alan, and they had not been at their best when they had not been at their b

two former captains, gary lineker and alan shearer, among the most outspoken about the team's currentink it's probably, you know, 0k forfans, it's what you expect, but you can turn your social media off. but that will get fed back so that was a bit of a blow, i imagine, for the dressing room. all my life it'sjust been negativity. it's got us absolutely nowhere. i think we've just got to get behind the team and crack on. yeah, it was a bad performance, as simple as that, but they're professionals, hopefully they will put it behind them and move forward. england's followers expect the slovenia test is one that the team should pass easily. but the fans and the team know that tougher challenges await. nesta mcgregor, bbc news in cologne. well, let's nowjoin andy swiss, who is pitchside in cologne stadium. andy, how much pressure are england under tonight? well, are england under tonight? sophie, in fact, you ca the well, sophie, in fact, you can see the england players they're warming up the england players they're warming up behind me. the good news for england, of course, is they have a

he could have been the - case, watching some of those players that might start that next game, alan shearer on bbc said anthony gordon should come into the side, and the reason was england was unable to press the denmark side and he is known for his work rate and put pace and the ability to run and stretch defences which might help england, there left—back, they don't have a natural one, and kieran trippier playing there, and as you mentioned earlier, there, and as you mentioned earlier, the trent alexander arland experiment in midfield may be over, conor gallagher came on it in the second half, and there is kobbie mainoo from manchester united who won the fa cup and one of the breakthrough stars in adam wharton, natural midfielders, and gareth southgate would have to think about bringing those players into the team if they are to get the best out of england's deep attacking talent. thank you, alex howell bringing us the latest from the england camp and have that much next tuesday, their final game. looking at the past couple of tournaments, england, have hardly lit up the group stages, the

i >>i >> i noticed there's no mention of alan shearer here now.than gary lineker, and therefore i would say two of them as excellent, superb england strikers have every right to criticise harry kane. >> so i saw a headline which said , harry kane hits back or said, harry kane hits back or hits. he didn't, he didn't , he hits. he didn't, he didn't, he was asked a question and actually said, well look , you actually said, well look, you know, they've got a job to do. i understand where they're coming from. how ever the intention of them play was. both of those guys were strikers who also played in under—performing teams and kane's point was this where is it in your day you could turn off the tv and not read newspapers today? the young kids, i can deal with it. but the young kids in the team, yeah, think of kobe meno think of saka, the young kids in the team. they can't get away with it because of social media. and don't just think about them, think about their friends and family. >> so wait a minute. your point is you can't say a bad thing about the

and with alan shearer they were, i think , fair in what they were, i think, fair in what they were, ihink, fair in what they said. now where you said there were certain words being used. this was on a podcast and what harry kane had says was, well, some people do these things to try and advertise their podcast and make themselves more popular. but the main point that harry was making more rich, okay, but but in what harry kane was actually saying, though, the main point was he questioned the fact that people like gary lineker and alan shearer have been in england sides that have not done well. so it's all very rich for them to say they really should get behind the side. but in my opinion their job is still to opinion theirjob is still to criticise what's going on and discuss how they thought the game was. >> they should know that because , i mean, what is it? gary lineker got 80 caps, harry kane got 93. yeah, and also 48 goals and 64. well i mean not forget the time in 19 90in the world cup. what happened there. he's talking about. yeah. what happened to gary i see what i see what you

and i can listen to alan shearer all day shouting why don't we press? why are we not pressing? why are we not running in behind? why are we not passing the ball forward? exactly right. we all saw it today , but gareth will today, but gareth will definitely, hopefully see that when he looks and reviews the game shows the players and say this has to change. >> so i'm looking forward to tavernier then. i mean, would you start the same team ? who you start the same team? who would you start? anyone different? would you have harry kane start for us? >> we're nearly through and i think that, i think that, you look at, you look at slovenia and say, what are the weak points? and we focus on exploiting the weak points in the reverse of that , we say we the reverse of that, we say we are going to shut slovenia down. we're not going to let the goalkeeper pass it out to his own players in his own 18 yard box. when they do, we're going to press them and we're going to press them all over the pitch in their own half, and we're going to force them into mistakes to give us the opportunity to c

left foot who he can choose from, but we've had criticism, haven't we, between gary lineker and alan shearert playing to his strengths, how would you have organised things, sam? who would you have started and not started out of this? line—up >> well, well, i would obviously. i would obviously have. i've obviously played foden in in with with bellingham and declan rice . i mean yes for and declan rice. i mean yes for me no doubt about that. and obviously down the left hand side bowen because i think when he's come on as a sub he's done all right. but you know you could have palmer you could try him. don't forget we're through to the next round. so it's not. yes. it's not a huge risks on changing the side that little bit to find somebody comes in and gives a fresh pair of eyes, as in terms of the left back of trippier. well, we just haven't got a left footed player to play there. so he has to maintain that position for the for the time being of course. but it's about every performance today about every performance today about lifting the performance, about lifting the performance, about playin

pundits at the euros leave viewers irritated by their grandstanding with alan shearer's rant during england'senmark. the final straw i watched it. i didn't particularly notice shearer's rant. i did notice lineker got far more animated than normal. he's he's the presenter, but he's explaining how harry kane should have been running off his man and stuff. and i just think it was a very boring game and everyone was just a bit wound up that we have this incredibly talented team and we perform so badly. that's what it was to me. >> he just got a bit more range in that next gear, hasn't he? he can. he can really, really move around. >> yeah. he's like oh it came to me doing this in my new lime jumper. yeah yeah that's what it was. >> these shorts are quite good. i can't do it. i tried and i can't do it. do you watch football. do you care what these people do. >> no i don't really watch football. but yeah i can understand them trying to trying to go big on social media and try and get more clicks and get another million followers so they can flog more next gear. they never compete with kane. >> he's

he was sent to formal england international such as gary lineker and alan shearer to remember what itayers are doing their best. the message in the camp has been that they are in control of the group, and they keep saying they are in control of their destiny. i think beat slovenia tomorrow night they will top the group and be into they will top the group and be into the round of 16.— away from the football and, with wimbledon starting a week today, the two—time champion andy murray still hasn't made a decision about whether he will play or not. you will remember he pulled out of queens last week with a back injury and he had an operation on saturday. he had been due to play in the singles and also the doubles with his brother, jamie, in what's expected to be his final appearance at the all england club before retiring. 0ur tennis correspondent russell fuller is following this one. it is quite possible that either wimbledon or the olympics would signal the end of his stunning career. could he really play singles at wimbledon over five sets just 910 days after having had a back operatio

but it is not singling anyone out but let�*s look at 2a captains in alan shearer and gary lineker, whoe performances have not been good enough _ the performances have not been good enough from the players, they know that. enough from the players, they know that they— enough from the players, they know that. they are not silly enough to think— that. they are not silly enough to think that — that. they are not silly enough to think that performances they are putting _ think that performances they are putting together are what group of players _ putting together are what group of players like this should be putting together, but at the same time, there _ together, but at the same time, there are — together, but at the same time, there are a _ together, but at the same time, there are a of positives and myself and everybody else sits there and we all feel_ and everybody else sits there and we all feel the _ and everybody else sits there and we all feel the same way, this is a team _ all feel the same way, this is a team that _ all feel the same way, this is a team that should be getting ou

including john stones, and hopefully with a full compliment to pick from, former england captain alan shearer got the ability in there to go all the way through this tournament. i think it's the best, it's the best pool of players we've had for a long, long time. and we can be optimistic. as i said, forget about what's gone on in in previous games. this group of players are really talented and i think they're ready to go and try and win this tournament. these players are used to playing in big games. they've played in champions league finals and fa cups have won league titles. so they're used to dealing with all that. but it does go to another level because we, england, haven't won anything for such such a long time. so we and these players have to carry that burden with them. but i think because there's been so much spoken about, now all you want as a player, all you want, the scotland players or the england players this weekend will just want to get the tournament going because they've heard so much, that's been talked about so much and just want to get out to the pitch and go and do that s

alan shearer hadn't scored in a dozen games. why is he still in the team ?gan was our editor at the time. he backed me , said, yes, you should, you know, you should call out the team . of course, when we got to team. of course, when we got to the semi—final against germany , the semi—final against germany, myself and a few of the journalists, piers morgan sent to the tower, there was a six foot, seven inch, beefeater waiting us at mirror headquarters who marched us off to the tower, that was the days when we actually told us, as it is. i mean, people in the pub are telling us what's going on. so should the media and so should gary lineker. and the way to answer it, harry kane , is go to answer it, harry kane, is go and score a hat trick tomorrow. >> harry harris, you've absolutely nailed it. that's exactly the right thing to do. turn all this negativity into a few in the back of the onion bag. harry harris, always a pleasure to have you on the show , and i've loved to hear about those old headlines as well. thank you . now, nigel farage has thank you. now, n

so i take my lead from alan shearer. >> well there you go.s i think that's a good place to take your lead. >> right. let's take our weather lead from andy shuttleworth this morning. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update. it's going to be another very dry and bright day for most of us. warmest in the south and east once again, but some rain is arriving later on today from the west. that's a weather front moving into parts of northern ireland through this morning and into western areas of scotland by this afternoon, and we will see some rain on that this evening across the far south and west. but ahead of it another dry and fine day. plenty of sunshine around, high uv levels as well. it's going to feel warm in that june sunshine. highs of 2425 degrees across the southeast , but 2425 degrees across the southeast, but up to the 2425 degrees across the southeast , but up to the low 2425 degrees across the southeast, but up to the low 20s up across nort

even if alan shearer, letitia rooney, so forth . but letitia rooney, so forth.rms tiktok, which is for younger voters and i didn't, i didn't quite understand , you i didn't quite understand, you know, you could get let's say you could get rishi sunak in if you could get rishi sunak in if you wanted to do that sort of quick fire round, get him sat down with chris hope, right. get chris hope asking the questions to your audience. and that would be a better platform than reverting to something that younger people use and would go be their go to . and you've seen be their go to. and you've seen that starmer did a very, very personal interview when he was talking about somebody laughing about his dad being a toolmaker dunng about his dad being a toolmaker during one of the debates. and he did that with chris hope and that was a moment, actually, which i think is actually quite a good thing when you get that, although i did think that was silly. >> i don't think anyone was actually laughing at his father's, but at least you, at least i get it. >> but i take that point

susie says since the football started, i've developed a thing for alan shearer and now find myself beingst thing i'd say is, why shake the fascination? bald men can be really sexy. >> why shake the fascination? why would you do that ? why would you do that? >> it's not that as grace jones song shake the fascination. >> well, it's something up to your bumper. she'd. she did that one. >> one. >> yeah, she pulled up to my bumper, so that's a weird thing to ask. what's i mean, really, what's wrong with fancying bald men? >> why are you asking me specifically? i feel targeted, i'm just interested. >> why ? >> why? >> why? >> that would be an issue. we all know that the reason we're bald because we're sexy or something, i can't remember. it's something to do with testosterone. and then dot dot, dot. we're sexy. so just get over it. just enjoy it. we are, you know, we don't leave as much hair around. we're like, one of those hypoallergenic cats. >> it does seem a bit odd that she wants to if that's her natural inclination, why would you want to shake it? >> you know, i think in this day and age

alan shearer was wading in saying the performance was woeful, roy keane saying these players look out world. foden was the premier league's player of the premier league's player of the year and yet when they put in the england team, they simply vanish. they're missing in action and that stops with the gaffer . gaffer. >> yeah, it's a different role for foden and that is on southgate , but he's choosing to southgate, but he's choosing to use bellingham more centrally so foden's out wide. we need to see him get into central areas. remember he's wide for man city as well, but he's encouraged with more freedom to come in centrally. there's definitely question marks. i think we came into the tournament thinking goals wouldn't be a problem and there were defensive frailties and actually goals are a problem, as is killing off games. so it's slightly ironic that we felt like mark gay would have pressure on him. he's been outstanding, whereas the front six were the best at the tournament , six were the best at the tournament, and six were the best at the tournament , and they've not tournament

the week, when and in actual fact, all they did was go on the pitch and prove gary lineker and alan sheareryeah sooner or later you have to be somebody on it. you have to prove that you're the team to beat. you are the team to beat on the pitch. >> you can only play what's in front of you, can't you? that's what you've got to beat the team that's in front of you. >> yeah. no, it doesn't matter in terms of the changes you can make. i think it's a huge risk bringing in luke shaw, if that's what he's going to do. but you know what i think gareth southgate might do that because he's justifying the strategy in the first place. otherwise, if he's bringing a player who's not going to use, then everyone will say, well, what's the point of that? you could have bought tyrick mitchell from crystal palace, who is a recognised left back and who was fit and had a decent second half of last season. one thing i would say though, dawn, you can't please everybody when you're the england manager, you must be tying up in knots. i mean, i know he has all year round to think about these tournaments and everythin

alan shearer had a table of his own. didn't matter about his club. he was such a big personality.. holland had the same problem at the same time and where the players wouldn't, wouldn't they just couldn't. there wasn't a cohesive unit so that was the first thing gareth southgate changed. he said. the ability has to be able to shine through andifs has to be able to shine through and it's not going to shine through if you're not a team and he's formed this leadership group as well. i don't know if you saw in the paper this morning where he's encouraged. he's got a four person, a four player leadership group to discuss any problems that are tactical going on in the tournament, and he's planning for the future, even though he probably won't even be there. he's included jude bellingham as part of that four player leadership group. he knows only 20. he's 20. yeah, exactly. so he's looking ahead to the future. but in terms of what they do tonight, i think they need to look convincing because there's a little bit of negativity. not too much, but a little bit resulting or emanating from th

i mean, i stand with, with lineker and stam with alan shearer. a pundit as well, but also played for england. what do you make of what's going on. >> yeah i think most players when you played the game, the players who are playing at this moment in time know paul when they've had a bad game and everybody, everybody knows that the two performances that england have already produced haven't been good enough. i think that's fine to say. i think that's fine to say. i think people have got to be in the bonnet because some of the rhetoric used by certain players after the event. yeah, of course this is a new era we all live in now. people are trying to sell podcasts galore on the back of a lot of these games. so i think that's what i think. that's all it has been, the some of the rhetoric that was used. but apart from that, you can't hide away from the fact that england's have not been good enough. they qualified really comfortably. they qualify playing really well. but the first two games in this competition haven't been to the standard that we've seen

today, with scotland and germany going head to head in munich. joining us now is football pundit, alan shearern we played switzerland. we were expected to win but we could only draw. were expected to win but we could onl draw. ~ ., ., i. ~ ., only draw. what do you think would be a aood only draw. what do you think would be a good campaign _ only draw. what do you think would be a good campaign for _ only draw. what do you think would be a good campaign for the - only draw. what do you think would be a good campaign for the scots? | only draw. what do you think would l be a good campaign for the scots? a be a good campaign for the scots? tournament would be to get out of the group. it is a very difficult group. if they can get anything tonight it will set them up for the tournament. you can imagine the reaction if they were to get a tonight, that would be a great performance for them. both scotland and encland performance for them. both scotland and england had _ performance for them. both scotland and england had been _ performance for them. both scotland and england had been in _ performance

what's alan shearer been saying? the tournament . i would have to say, tournament. i would have to say, we had the podcast that he does with gary lineker pouring sort of, you know, critic criticism on england's performances so far. and i think largely they've been they've been borne out. but i think we should look at i mean, the whole clamour is what changes can he make because he's got to do something to inject some life. yeah that is yeah, that's that's possible. i mean you look you look at that. they could stay in the same, same formation. and yes, it just could need everybody given a little bit more or just playing a little bit better. the opponents are about playing to that as well. but the clamour is for for, personnel changes. do we see harry kane dropped? i think that's very unlikely. even though luke shaw, luke shaw is an interesting one because look, he he is said to be or a lot of people believe that he is the answer to the problem. he gives you balance on that left hand side. but goodness me, i can't. i c

you had alan shearer had his mates on one table. that's not good is it. no it's not.isn't good going forward. and so he's eliminated that. so you wonder i don't think there's a problem with togetherness. i think the squad are together. i think the squad are together. i think the squad are together. i think the players generally when they speak to me, they say they enjoy playing for england much more than, say, their predecessors would have done because of the pressure. but for some reason it's not clicking on the pitch right now. as i say, four points they've got in group c, they should be enough to get through and they should win their last game. but they need a performance. they really do that first game that they did win. >> yes, i mean, where did they play? very much better in that. >> not really. i mean, steven and i touched on it last week. i mean, they played well for the first half an hour. they seem to withdraw. i think this is about conserving energy. gareth southgate is a genuine worry about fatigue among the players. so he thinks like, get ahead, let's get