If I didn't think it would negatively affect Pickford, I'd love nothing more than for the gammons to get a massive Ramsdale howler to cost them.
If they’re picking on England form then Pickford is first name on the team sheet, he has been faultless for England in two major tournaments now, and more than that has actually made big saves in knockout games and shoot outs. There’s just no way Southgate is dropping that sort of potential for a keeper from Arsenal or Burnley who are making just as many errors as Pickford (if not even more) for their premier league teams.
Ramsdale is the media’s chosen one though because he plays for a top 6 team and it frankly annoys them if any Everton player plays for England.
Remember when they pressured Capello into taking Stephen Warnock, Upson and Carragher over Jagielka Lescott and Baines for the 2010 World Cup. That was moronic.
Then in 2014 World Cup when they stitched the whole thing on Baines and Jagielka ‘we wouldn’t have gone out if we’d had Terry and Cole instead’ when it was Gerrard playing through balls to Suarez which put us out.
2016 Ross Barkley was key in getting them to those Euros only to find that his place had been taken overnight because Dele Alli and Eric Dier were playing well for Spurs.
Even in 2018 they massacred Pickford for not saving Januzaj’s shot in a dead rubber game.
They’ve never liked Everton players turning out for England apart from Rooney because they knew he’d be off immediately. Pickford is just an annoyance to them, he’d be a hero in any other nation after what he’s done in the past two tournaments. Not here though with our London centric kopite infested media.