I reckon if he could go and live in a rented house or apartment between training sessions / matches - like tennis players do, he’d probably go. But of course that isn’t tenable in a team sport. I genuinely believe it’s all the down time at the hotel and the Team England stuff he can’t stomach.
For me this is probably it. Personally I could think of little worse than being picked for the Euros and having to spending a month in a hotel with Phil Fodden, Jordan Pickford, Kyle Walker et al, with all their shit ‘lads bantz’ and having to bet a grand or multiples thereof on anything and...
I get the impression that Ben White is relatively introverted and possibly finds the England camps quite cliquey and, for him, a bit suffocating and boring.
Maybe he just doesn’t fancy playing for England :shrug:
If that’s the case I, could understand that. It genuinely wouldn’t interest me...