How Twitter reacted to Roy Hodgson’s 26-man preliminary Euro 2016 squad

We're now much nearer to knowing which players will almost certainly guide England to Euro 2016 success this summer.

But for a fake bomb scare at Old Trafford, all but one of the season's Premier League fixtures are now done and dusted, and Roy Hodgson has named the 26 players he will take into pre-tournament friendlies against Turkey and Australia. The headline news is that Manchester United's Marcus Rashford has earned his first ever call up to an England senior squad after only making his club debut a couple of months ago. Andros Townsend is also a surprise inclusion, with many suggesting that he's benefited from the injury sustained by Danny Welbeck in last weekend's game at Arsenal. There have also been mixed emotions for two of Welbeck's clubmates. Despite only recently playing his first football since pre-season, Jack Wilshere has been named in the squad. Theo Walcott however, misses out, although has immediately tweeted a dignified good luck message to the team. On Twitter, some some suggested that Walcott had more of a case for selection than Raheem Sterling... https://twitter.com/JoeColeman1508/status/732156784199254017 Others picked holes in Hodgson's reasons for not including him... https://twitter.com/FozzyB/status/732157117260500992 The majority of people however, agreed that Hodgson had made the right call over the Arsenal man... https://twitter.com/ShainKerr/status/732155795568230401 Aside from Walcott, Marcus Rashford's first England call up caused a stir with many feeling Jermaine Defoe was unfortunate to miss out... https://twitter.com/Gesther14/status/732158181309333504 https://twitter.com/forcey_123/status/732158564140208128 https://twitter.com/VaughnAldred/status/732158417910018048 And then there was the reaction to the news that Andros Townsend, despite being relegated with Newcastle last week, had also got himself back in the England picture... https://twitter.com/WestHam_Central/status/732154334125916160 https://twitter.com/GSuggsMCFC/status/732159724758704128 What do you think about Hodgson's picks? Tweet us, message us on Facebook, or email us: Hello@JOE.co.uk.