England star appears to accuse Wales of lacking respect with

England star appears to accuse Wales of lacking respect with famous Iceland video and warns it will provide extra motivation


Wales' players celebrated England being knocked out of the Euros, but the Three Lions say that hasn't been forgotten ahead of huge World Cup clash



By Mark Mann-Bryans



Luke Shaw has warned the way Wales celebrated England's elimination from Euro 2016 will add extra motivation to their World Cup clash on Tuesday.

The neighbouring nations meet at Ahmed bin Ali Stadium in their final Group B game with Wales needing a win.

While England are favourites to progress as group winners despite an uninspiring goalless draw against the United States on Friday, Wales are on the cusp of elimination.

The sides met in the group stages in France six years ago when Daniel Sturridge scored an injury-time winner for England, who were then embarrassingly dumped out by Iceland as Wales progressed through to the semi-finals.

Footage emerged of the Wales players celebrating jubilantly as England crashed out and Shaw revealed that has not been forgotten in the England dressing room and will bring extra spice to Tuesday night's showdown.


"I think you could say that," Shaw said when asked if the Wales reaction would provide extra motivation. "But our motivation in itself has to be at its highest level. We are at the World Cup. We have great aims for what we want to achieve.

"We have to have the maximum motivation at every game. I don't think there's any more motivation than what we have already."

Shaw missed Euro 2016 while recovering from a broken leg - although he was still aware of the Wales video doing the rounds. A number of current England players were in that squad, including skipper Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling and Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson.

"Of course, it wasn't nice," said Shaw. "I don't want to dwell too much on to that. I want to focus on what we do on the pitch. We can say things in interviews and I'd rather do our talking on the pitch, rather than off it."

Pressed on the matter, Shaw suggested the Wales reaction had been disrespectful when asked if England would celebrate in the same manner, saying: "I think we are a respectful group. We do things in the right way. That's the example Gareth wants to set. We are fully behind that. We are fully respectful.


"I think their motivation is going to be extremely high. They are going to give everything to win. It's not an easy game. But we need to focus on what we do. The talent we have, the depth we have, we need to focus on ourselves. If we prepare properly, we should win the game."

Wales star Jonny Williams, who filmed the famous video, said: "I was videoing it and put it in the WhatsApp group. It ended up getting leaked and the manager (Chris Coleman) wasn't too bothered so I was alright.

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Oh dear! they need extra motivation to beat us? Sad state of affairs if they need any kind of motivation to win a football game.

I danced around the room when Iceland beat them, but lets be fair you cant blame them for being miffed. Imagine the fuss if it had been the other way round and a video had come to light of them celebrating our defeat.

I danced around the room when Iceland beat them, but lets be fair you cant blame them for being miffed. Imagine the fuss if it had been the other way round and a video had come to light of them celebrating our defeat.

Spot on - I fear we will pay for that on Tuesday.

I danced around the room when Iceland beat them, but lets be fair you cant blame them for being miffed. Imagine the fuss if it had been the other way round and a video had come to light of them celebrating our defeat.

Spot on - I fear we will pay for that on Tuesday.

Possible but we will be dancing again when they get knocked out meaning its not coming home again.

I danced around the room when Iceland beat them, but lets be fair you cant blame them for being miffed. Imagine the fuss if it had been the other way round and a video had come to light of them celebrating our defeat.

Spot on - I fear we will pay for that on Tuesday.

Possible but we will be dancing again when they get knocked out meaning its not coming home again.

I'm Sure it will be a massive scalp for them beating smallest nation at WC! But suppose got to make most of any success before they go home before competition as finished..

He's not wrong though.

It was pathetic and small minded.

It's amazing that we are so small they didn't even realise that there is a one-way rivalry. England are the biggest brother of four and look at us through almost parental eyes.

My Canton & Grangetown parents watched the 1966 world cup and cheered when "we" won it. I sometimes wonder why i do what i do (I said it was because of Gunnar, but it wasn't) when I partied out on the Iceland result.

Lets hope this time when we dance it will be because we beat them!

He's not wrong though.

It was pathetic and small minded.

Agree - thought the same at the time .