I read this earlier. I'm really not sure what Ugo is going on about.

I read this earlier. I'm really not sure what Ugo is going on about.

Really? I'm not going to quote it all, but it seemed pretty clear to me.

Do you really need it explaining to you

IMH I think that what he was saying was that for all the players aspiring to get on the plane to Tokyo and those sitting at home keeping fit incase of injuries and they get a call - its quite disrespectful.  Its not my home country but I think he has a point about national pride.  S Lancaster - in my opinion put the pride back into the English shirt and you see it every time an English team stands and sing the National Anthem.  There is a certain amount of pride and Nationalist fervour.  Teo snubbed all of that with his behaviour.  Good for Ugo to stand up and voice what I am sure quite a few pundits privately think.

And further to TeddingtonQuins point I think Ugo is also hinting at the disrespect shown towards Mike Brown personally (without Ugo mentioning names). We don’t know the complete ins and outs but the jist of it seems to be that Teo threw a tantrum of sorts during a team building excercise, and when Mike Brown approached Teo to calm him temper/told him to pack it in Teo socked him one. I doubt that even if Brown had a sour impression of Teo that he would knowingly jeopardise his own World Cup chances by sorting out Teo and this is why I believe Brown tried to tell Teo to stop playing up in a “teammate” type manner and Teo didn’t take too well to this. Brown wasn’t expecting to get lamped and now two good players miss out on a World Cup spot. The thing Ugo points out here is that it’s a bit of a slap in the face to Brown, who 1. Didn’t instigate the incident, 2. Got punished for trying to (in his eyes) showcase good teammate skills in trying to defuse the situation in a team building exercise, and 3. Suffers harsh consequences. Brown loves more than anything to play for his country and it really shows when he does, he is desperate to get back into that England team and I think it’s clear it’s been quite hard on him for missing out because of this. Then there’s Teo who clearly doesn’t give two rubber ducks about playing for England in the future (probably only attended the selection process because of the £xx,000 per game incentive and not for a genuine passion for playing for England) decides to leave for France. It rubs salt into other players wounds who missed out and shows he clearly doesn’t care about being there and it clearly shows that he doesn’t deserve to be. I completely get Ugo’s point

Well in that case Ugo should have been specific, and I'd have no quarrel with that. The stuff about showing disrespect by not hanging around and earning little to no money is rubbish. Also, Ugo has no idea what EJ told Teo - he may have said 'sorry mate, I have a no d**kheads policy and that's twice you've come up short".

IMH I think that what he was saying was that for all the players aspiring to get on the plane to Tokyo and those sitting at home keeping fit incase of injuries and they get a call - its quite disrespectful.  Its not my home country but I think he has a point about national pride.  S Lancaster - in my opinion put the pride back into the English shirt and you see it every time an English team stands and sing the National Anthem.  There is a certain amount of pride and Nationalist fervour.  Teo snubbed all of that with his behaviour.  Good for Ugo to stand up and voice what I am sure quite a few pundits privately think.

The difference here, surely, is that Teo has no club (i.e. no salary), and the more time goes on before the start of the season, with him being in a no-man's land (no club, no RWC call-up), the less likely he is to get one. Is it not entirely plausible that Teo has said to EJ "Shall I hang around? Might you still call me up?" and EJ has said. "No, go and get a club for yourself, good luck mate"?