If he's so knackered - which he looks like he is - why has he played the last 3 games and why is playing for the full squad?

Henderson, Welbeck Albrighton have played a stack of games too. It makes a bit of a mockery of us being there without Walcott, Carroll & Wilshere when everyone else is at full strength.

I feel for Jack, sure he had pressure on him. Probably played with these guys for the last 5 or 6 years all coming through together and he has to miss their last tournament together, not for not being good enough but for being too good.

We won't know if Jack genuinely believes what he has said - but if he doesn't, this could backfire on us in two ways - the main one, him getting disheartened and less so, Bentley has never shaken off that stigma of not wanting to play for them because he was tired.