{"id":289296,"date":"2023-09-09T22:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T22:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=289296"},"modified":"2023-09-09T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T22:22:32","slug":"will-maddison-ever-be-main-man-for-england-like-he-is-at-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/will-maddison-ever-be-main-man-for-england-like-he-is-at-tottenham\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Maddison ever be &apos;main man&apos; for England like he is at Tottenham?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>THE SHARPE END:\u00a0Will James Maddison ever be &#8216;main man&#8217; for England like he is at Spurs and a Sunday roast?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>As we&#8217;ve heard, James Maddison likes to be the main man, on and off the pitch\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tottenham star declared in the week he likes to dominate at a Sunday roast\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But he was off the boil for England in Saturday evening&#8217;s 1-1 draw against Ukraine<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you hadn&#8217;t heard, James Maddison\u00a0likes to be the main man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the pitch and, as the\u00a0Tottenham and England playmaker declared in the week, at the family Sunday roast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s not a conscious effort to try to be the showman,&#8217; Maddison said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s just how I play football. That&#8217;s just how I am as a person, when I go for a roast dinner with my family, I like to be the main man.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Questions raged, naturally, over what constitutes being the main man at a roast dinner. Carving duty, surely? First dibs on the gravy? Extra roast potatoes?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/22\/75253949-12500041-image-m-125_1694295117024.jpg\" height=\"418\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard, Tottenham and England playmaker James Maddison likes to be the main man &#8211; both on the pitch and, as he declared in the week, off it at the family Sunday roast as well<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/22\/75253969-12500041-image-a-126_1694295168321.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The attacking midfielder certainly takes the spotlight as lynchpin at Ange Postecoglou&#8217;s Spurs<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/09\/22\/75253953-12500041-image-m-128_1694295196024.jpg\" height=\"468\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But he was off the boil for England in Saturday evening&#8217;s 1-1 draw against Ukraine in Poland<\/p>\n<p>The way he speaks and finds the spotlight, you can see Maddison being a manager one day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more than a touch of his former boss at Leicester,\u00a0Brendan Rodgers, about him. Main man first, future coach second, probably entertainer third.<\/p>\n<p>Maddison is certainly the main man for Ange Postecoglou\u00a0at Tottenham. He&#8217;s been the lynchpin for their superb start.<\/p>\n<p>The most shots, the most chances created, the most involvement in play. For England, he has not matched his Spurs form.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Southgate rewarded his form with a start against Ukraine but Maddison struggled to make an impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He drifted inside off his unnatural left-wing berth to get on the ball, but mustered no shots, created his only chance from a corner, was booked in the first-half and subbed before 70 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12500041\/THE-SHARPE-END-James-Maddison-main-man-England-like-Spurs-Sunday-roast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SHARPE END:\u00a0Will James Maddison ever be &#8216;main man&#8217; for England like he is at Spurs and a Sunday roast? As we&#8217;ve heard, James Maddison likes to be the main man, on and off the pitch\u00a0 The Tottenham star declared in the week he likes to dominate at a Sunday roast\u00a0 But he was off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will Maddison ever be &amp;apos;main man&amp;apos; for England like he is at Tottenham? - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/will-maddison-ever-be-main-man-for-england-like-he-is-at-tottenham\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will Maddison ever be &amp;apos;main man&amp;apos; for England like he is at Tottenham? - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE SHARPE END:\u00a0Will James Maddison ever be &#8216;main man&#8217; for England like he is at Spurs and a Sunday roast? 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