England boss Roy Hodgson describes team notes leak as dangerous espionage

ROY HODGSON has slammed the "dangerous" leak of his team notes and described it as espionage.

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Yesterday a picture emerged of Hodgson's notes during training.

It suggested Harry Kane was set to partner Wayne Rooney in attack for England on Friday against Lithuania.

But Hodgson was unhappy with the picture being made public.

"That is dangerous to do that (assume Kane will start)," Hodgson said.

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Roy Hodgson brans picture leak as espionage

I don't think it's right to suggest that in order to avoid this type of espionage I have to remember everything I have thought about but we change people around quite often

Roy Hodgson

"First of all it is dangerous to spy on those things at a training session. The fact is that piece of paper is a piece of paper we take out to training because we have to select teams.

"I don't think it's right to suggest that in order to avoid this type of espionage I have to remember everything I have thought about but we change people around quite often.

"If that is what people want to read into the espionage that is up to them but I hope they are not going to come and blame me if I don't start with Kane and Rooney and say 'we had it on your piece of paper' because they shouldn't be looking at it in the first place."

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