Eni Aluko agrees that the criticism of the England players is harsh, but their right of reply is on the pitch.
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00:00Yeah, I think as a pundit, I always look at it from a very objective point of view, right?
00:06So you can critique something and say, these are the stats, these are the numbers, this
00:13is what I think, without being personal.
00:18I think that's quite an easy balance to strike, to be honest.
00:23I never go into games going, I'm going to go right in on that player.
00:28It doesn't serve me to do that.
00:30For me, yeah, I've seen it gone a bit too far, and I like to see the players, to be
00:35honest, bite back a little bit.
00:39I used to do that as a player a little bit, bite back and go, hold on a second, you know.
00:43But ultimately, the player's right of reply is on the pitch.
00:48So I'd love to see the likes of Declan Rice who came out and said, hold on a second, what
00:52are you talking about?
00:53Just do it on the pitch.
00:54And that shuts everyone up, ultimately.
00:57Same as Harry Kane.
00:58But, yeah, I do think that there's no need for it to go personal.
01:05There's no need to try and get soundbites and all that stuff.
01:09That's not really our job.
01:10Our job is to analyse what's in front of us, critique what's in front of us, use data,
01:15stats to paint a picture for the audience back home to go, right, it's not good because
01:20of this.