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That was embrassing. The French ref didn't help.

(05-06-2022 14:52 )Doddle Wrote:  

(04-06-2022 21:14 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Southgate should just go for what works

Been saying that for ages

What I quoted was "Southgate should just go"

(14-06-2022 21:49 )Spike1876 Wrote:  Anyone wishing to have a go at management, please apply to the Football Association... No experience or ability required...

Doubt there's a rush for the job mate

(14-06-2022 21:53 )Doddle Wrote:  

(05-06-2022 14:52 )Doddle Wrote:  

(04-06-2022 21:14 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Southgate should just go for what works

Been saying that for ages

What I quoted was "Southgate should just go"

I'd like to know when he WILL go

(14-06-2022 21:49 )Spike1876 Wrote:  Anyone wishing to have a go at management, please apply to the Football Association... No experience or ability required...

It's interesting how Gareth Southgate has become such a victim of his own success. He's managed England to a semi-final and a final in successive tournaments, after England had managed only 2 semi-finals in the previous 50 years. Even after recent disappointments, he still has the second best win rate of any England manager. But inevitably he's raised the bar by which he's judged, so that the tournaments in which England performed poorly in the past or didn't even qualify for are now completely forgotten. People's only expectation is that Southgate continues his run of great success and he will be roundly criticised if he doesn't.