James Tarkowski has England pedigree as a ball-playing centre-half | Jacob Steinberg

The Burnley player called up by Gareth Southgate says his reputation as an old-fashioned English defender is unfairThe general view of Burnley as a long-ball outfit meant that the logic behind Gareth Southgate’s decision to hand James Tarkowski a first England call-up last week was not immediately obvious. After all, what hope could there ever be for an unheralded defender from one of the Premier League’s more direct teams when Southgate has cast Manchester United’s Chris Small