As a so called “leader”, as our boys prepared for an inevitably hard afternoon against Liverpool, he should have been there around the tunnel with an arm round Monga, settling him in and giving him encouragement, a lad who has turned up for a nigh on impossible challenge and would run through a brick wall to get ten minutes on the pitch. Instead he’s twittering (x-ing?) pictures of chilling in the park with his family.
It seems like a Mexican stand off - Ruud won’t include him, Winks is hoping / counting the days til Ruud leaves. I find it hard to see though how he can hope to return to the leadership group, when his colleagues were fighting in the trenches (and they did put in a lot in that day) he had his feet up with tea and scones*
*scones may or may not have been involved I wouldn’t want to accuse him of being unprofessional with his diet too!