RDNL Musings

It’s and time for the start of the World Cup and it would have been remiss of me not to wonder what a National League World Cup squad would look like. So, I’ve made my selections and figured I’d share them.  I was tempted to do another challenge but the truth is that the XI would have looked very similar to the one I completed a few weeks back – 18 of the 23 were English. For this one, I figured I would look at the elite.  What has been highlighted to me is the ridiculous strength of the division currently. The quality on display is fantastic and I’ve no doubt this squad would more than handle itself in an EFL campaign.  The only rules for this were no loanees and the players needing to be English, or available to play for England.  So, without further ado, my 26-man World Cup tournament squad: Goalkeepers   Nathan Ashmore – Boreham Wood Ryan Boot – Solihull Moors Mark Howard – Wrexham It became quite difficult to separate the goalkeepers, tougher than I initial...

It’s the early hours of Wednesday morning. My three-month old needs changing, feeding, burping then easing back to sleep. During that last part, I need to keep myself entertained as she drifts off.  I’d caught up with everything on the NTT20 squad. Caught up with Twitter notifications. Do I do another FourFourTwo quiz? Na, let’s have a read. Oo, potential England World Cup squads. Let’s see what I disagree with. No, James Maddison isn’t going the World Cup. I wonder what a 23-man National League squad might look like. Na, too elitist. Wait, there’s 24 clubs. What about one from each club. What if the manager of the remaining club has to manage it? Yeah, that’ll do. Let’s have a go.  I didn’t go back to sleep.  Now, I was always going to have to write down my thoughts. I can’t do stuff like this and not write. But, rather than keep this to myself, I thought I would extend the challenge to Twitter. I knew @tomhwilliams23 and @OffTheLineBlog wouldn’t be able to resist the ch...