Alan Shearer claims one England star will be 'RAGING' with Lee Carsley as ex-Three Lions captain insists player 'should be knocking on the manager's door' after Greece snub

Former England skipper Alan Shearer has insisted that Ollie Watkins has each correct to beryllium 'raging' aft being near retired of nan starting XI for Thursday's UEFA Nations League crippled against Greece.

Despite prima striker Harry Kane being retired injured, interim leader Lee Carsley named Watkins among his substitutes and began nan crippled pinch a fluid statement featuring nary accepted frontman.

Bukayo Saka, Anthony Gordon, Cole Palmer, Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden each started astatine Wembley earlier Watkins was introduced disconnected nan chair successful nan 60th minute.

England were 1-0 down erstwhile Watkins came connected and yet fell to a 2-1 conclusion against a Greece side, who besides had 3 goals disallowed for offside.

Watkins has netted 31 goals successful 62 games for Aston Villa since nan commencement of past season. He besides scored 1 extremity successful 3 substitute appearances for England astatine Euro 2024 wherever he played nan domiciled of Kane's understudy.

Reflecting connected Thursday's loss, Shearer said connected The Rest Is Football podcast: 'You'd beryllium perfectly raging if you were Ollie Watkins.

'Your main man, aliases your main centre forward, is injured and you've been crying retired for an opportunity. And erstwhile you've travel connected you've really done alright, successful position of Watkins, and he's doing good astatine nine level.

'Yet erstwhile Kane's out, nan head comes to you and says: "I'm not going to play you tonight", astatine location against Greece. "I'm going to effort thing different."

'He's sewage each correct to beryllium [angry]. He should beryllium knocking connected his doorway coming aliases tomorrow, saying: "I person to play nan adjacent game, if Kane's not fit."'

Podcast big and chap erstwhile Three Lions prima Gary Lineker responded to Shearer by saying: 'I'm not judge it useful for illustration that astatine world level. Did you ever sound connected nan world manager's doorway and go, "I should beryllium playing successful this game"? It's not for illustration nine football, is it?'

Shearer replied: 'I knocked connected Graham Taylor's doorway erstwhile I was 19 aliases 20.'

A laughing Lineker deed back: 'Did you? "Get Lineker out", is that what you said?'

Shearer continued: 'No, I conscionable wanted to cognize if I was going to beryllium successful nan squad aliases not. I don't deliberation it does immoderate harm, you're conscionable asking nan question.

'You don't person to beryllium fierce successful nan measurement you do it but, because nan consequence has gone against them coming and it's backfired what nan manager's done, I deliberation you've sewage each correct to spell and person a chat pinch him.'

Shearer past went connected to admit that Carsley does not person an easy occupation picking nan England team, and he compared his existent action 'dilemma' to nan celebrated 'Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard' business of nan 2000s.

'It's a akin thing,' Shearer explained. 'You've sewage these brilliant, astonishing players and you're thinking: "How are we going to get them each into nan team?"

'Well, sometimes each of them don't work. Sometimes you person to make large decisions and possibly time off 1 out, aliases 2 out.'