England snub. Critics, backed by Grealish himself, suggested the Three Lions boss had ignored his own selection criteria when picking Leeds star Kalvin Phillips ahead of the Aston Villa skipper.Immediately after the squad to face Iceland and Denmark in the Nations League came out, Grealish liked a tweet from Sky Bet comparing his Premier League record last season to that of Phillips, who has NEVER made a top-flight appearance.But Southgate has dismissed the post - and stats - as totally irrelevant because Grealish is an attacking playmaker and Phillips a holding midfielder.The England supremo said: “I'm grown up enough to understand that players are going to be disappointed if they're not selected.“But you can’t compare selecting Kalvin.
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