'Listen to England players when they talk about pressure'

It feels for illustration everyone is talking astir nan temper wrong nan England campy correct now.

Are nan players emotion nether pressure, and are nan antagonistic headlines astir their performances truthful acold affecting them earlier they play Slovenia connected Tuesday?

From nan outside, it's beautiful aggravated - but it is conscionable not for illustration that connected nan wrong erstwhile you are playing astatine a awesome tournament.

For starters, arsenic I support trying to stress, these guys play astatine nan highest level each nan time. They are utilized to scrutiny and group talking astir them. There is ever excitement, and location is ever an over-exaggeration of things, bully aliases bad.

So, location is nary constituent them trying to artifact retired nan sound pursuing their first 2 games astatine Euro 2024, because I conscionable don't deliberation that's imaginable these days - but I do deliberation it's important they perceive some sides of it.

I went to 4 awesome finals pinch England and played astatine 3 of them. Personally, I learned that nan opinions of nan group successful my soul circle - and by that I mean my team-mates, nan management, and my family and friends - are nan ones that matter.

They were each incredibly important to really I felt during these situations, and nan regular play too.

Everyone else? They were free to opportunity immoderate they wanted astir maine aliases nan team. That's conscionable life arsenic a footballer, particularly astatine nan top, and you conscionable person to judge it.

I was OK pinch it, and I'd ideate nan boys now are beautiful overmuch nan same. It surely sounds for illustration they are erstwhile I've heard them interviewed successful nan past mates of days.

I emotion really everyone is guessing astir what is happening wrong nan campy erstwhile nan players aliases Kelly Somers, who is nan BBC newsman based there, are talking astir it each nan time.

The players are saying they are calm astir everything, and Kelly has been speaking astir really she is successful and astir it, and nan ambiance feels very relaxed.

So location is capable accusation location to really get nan existent communicative of what is going on, but everyone wants to person an sentiment astir it instead.

When our players person been interviewed since nan draw pinch Denmark, it is not arsenic if they person travel retired saying "we were brilliant".

They person each been saying nan aforesaid point - that they cognize they tin get better, but they are organised and focused and they are each down each other.

That's precisely what I want them to beryllium saying, but tons of group don't want to perceive it.

I get that - it's a batch much nosy speculating - but if you really want to cognize if nan players are emotion nan pressure, past conscionable perceive to them.

I person only conscionable retired, truthful I americium caller retired of nan crippled and I still spot nan business from their constituent of view, wherever I americium beautiful grounded and realistic astir what I americium expecting to feel, 2 games into this tournament.

In my BBC file earlier nan Serbia game, I said we person to beryllium OK astir conceding goals without letting it impact our assurance - and precisely nan aforesaid applies to america not playing arsenic good arsenic we tin successful our first 2 games.

The facts are we person sewage 4 points, we are apical of our group and we are very adjacent to qualifying for nan past 16.

We besides cognize location is simply a batch much to travel from this team, but that is simply a positive, and I americium definite we will spot them amended arsenic nan tourney goes on.

I don’t bargain into each nan disapproval nan squad are getting but I don't mind it because it shows group care, and I cognize they are disappointment because they are hopeless for England to do well.

At nan infinitesimal it's nan disappointment group who are nan noisiest, but that is not going to impact nan situation wrong nan England camp. There are plentifulness of point successful spot to make judge that remains positive, immoderate is being said connected nan outside.

As I became a elder player, I sewage much and much progressive successful nan activity group successful nan England squad, which plays an important domiciled erstwhile you are distant for a agelong clip astatine tournaments.

I was ever getting put guardant for things for illustration that and it was a domiciled I liked having. All sorts of personalities and mentalities dress up immoderate England squad and I wanted to thief my team-mates because I wanted to get nan champion retired of them.

Four aliases 5 of america would regularly speak to nan head and relay messages to and from different players astir each facet of nan camp. Even nan mini things tin make a large difference, and if you make a mini spot of effort for personification who feels moreover somewhat uncomfortable astir something, it tin spell a agelong way.

Whether it is making arrangements astir training aliases deciding wherever nan squad will eat, these are nan conversations you person to effort to find different ways to thief nan players relax, without losing their focus.

So overmuch changes during nan people of a tournament, including players' emotions, but if everyone has sewage spot successful each different past you tin woody pinch thing together.

Things person go moreover much inclusive since Southgate took charge, and nan support is ever location if it is needed, which is different logic I americium not worried astir really nan players are emotion now.

Joe Hart was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan successful Berlin.