Arsenal and England striker Danny Welbeck has laughed off suggestions that his England team will be bored during the World Cup. Around 45 minutes away from the nearest city of St Petersburg, there have been questions about the suitability of the quiet area of Repino for players during the World Cup.
England’s much-maligned Rustenberg base in 2010 has been mentioned in the same breath, but Gareth Southgate gave short shrift to talk of boredom calling it ‘sad, nonsense and a big red herring’. Welbeck echoes his manager on this too.
For me, nothing like that seems to bother me,’ he said with a laugh.
‘I’ve had surgery and then not been allowed to put weight on my leg for two months, so I’ve been stuck in a room and that sort of stuff. I don’t get bored now. I’ve been through that, I don’t get bored. I know what I can do to occupy myself, occupy my brain, added the formee Man united star.