Her experience seemed to make the former captain and Manchester City centre-half the ideal replacement for the injured Leah Williamson
Sarina Wiegman’s decision to omit Steph Houghton from England’s World Cup squad has prompted little surprise but an awful lot of dissension.
It is the sort of contentious, high-stakes selection call that sometimes ends up coming back to bite managers on the backside. Wiegman’s closest allies will interpret it as another piece of characteristic sound judgment on the part of a coach who simply does not do sentiment.
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