#2 Marcus Rashford
Roy Hodgson simply has to bring Marcus Rashford on the plane to France - if he doesn’t, he could grow to regret it.
A few short months ago, Rashford was a nobody in the world of football but he has quickly learned to deal with the pressures and expectations of professional football at the highest level. Not only that, but he is widely hailed as the face of the next generation of Manchester United fans and looks set to stay at the club for the foreseeable future. Even more impressively, he is now the youngest player to score on his England debut, per OptaJoe.
If the 18-year-old gets left out at the expense of either Wayne Rooney or the injury-plagued Daniel Sturridge, the youngster should rightly feel aggrieved. After all, he’s still a relatively unknown quantity and teams will struggle to learn too much about him between now and the start of the tournament (after all he's still earning about his own game himself), and that could play to England’s advantage moving forward.
Sure, he’s not the most experienced and he’s still largely unproven, but based on form alone, he deserves an inclusion. If he does go, we can pine for more swashbuckling, fearless attacking play; the sort of proactive football that gave United fans something to celebrate when all seemed lost can also give the Three Lions every chance of making it to the quarter finals and beyond.
The future is bright for this starlet. Let’s hope Hodgson doesn’t dull it for him.
