James Maddison keeps aiming digs at his England team-mates that would not have been tolerated by the Golden Generation, if they had the emotional intelligence to talk to each other.
James Maddison keeps aiming digs at his England team-mates that would not have been tolerated by the Golden Generation, if they had the emotional intelligence to actually talk to each other.
“It was down to the obsession with winning. I didn’t want to see Frank have an edge on me. I didn’t want to speak to him about anything he’d be able to take away to facilitate his team winning. When I was with England with Stevie , when we were battling for the Premier League, I didn’t want to sit around him and be around him because I just didn’t want to hear about what Liverpool were doing.”
Maddison previously revealed his “trash talking” on international duty with Bukayo Saka which led the Arsenal star to mimic his celebration in their draw with Spurs. “HIn both instances, amid the greatest of club rivalries, Maddison and his wisecracking accomplices demonstrated their ability to rise above the bullsh*t, to show that you can still be a bloody good player in a bloody good team – far better than that supposed Golden Generation – while not taking everything quite so seriously.
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