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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

He may not have any kind of tactical brain, but it looks like he does at least have a degree of self awareness.

[Doctor Gollum]

Managing the English Football team is a thankless task. Especially as they really don't seem interested in playing or winning. I'd have probably sacked the team first. Sure, they might be decent players in their respective teams, but they aren't A team, let alone a national side.

It was as much down to the performance of other teams that we got to where we did.

We've fielded a lackluster second rate team since the mid/late '90s and it shows tournament after tournament.

I've long said they'd be better of with a team of amateurs who actually want to play for their country and put in the effort to at least try.

[Sir Tigger KC]

He might not have won anything, but I think he had a better tournament record than most England managers? 

Two Euro finals, a World Cup Quarter and Semi final. We have qualified for every tournament and been contenders. 

Even if the football they've played has been godawfully boring and defensive. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The style of football Southgate wanted from the England team matched his own personality.

Dull, repressed, unexciting and lacking imagination.

Quite frankly we were lucky to make it to the final.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

He had some excellent players in the squad, but kept leaving some of them on the bench to keep Kane on the pitch most of the time.
Kane was useless throughout the tournament but he kept playing him for some strange reason.
If he had a good grasp of tactics that squad were easily capable of winning the tournament, but he just kept on doing the same thing and luck stayed with him, until it ran out.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I don't think it really matters who is the manager to be honest. 

I think that I could take a group of top footballers who week in week out play excellent football for their clubs at the highest level, and get them to pass it about in the midfield, gradually going backwards until passing it back to the keeper, for him to launch it deep into the other sides territory, gifting them possession so that they can attack and score! 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I don't think it really matters who is the manager to be honest. 

I think that I could take a group of top footballers who week in week out play excellent football for their clubs at the highest level, and get them to pass it about in the midfield, gradually going backwards until passing it back to the keeper, for him to launch it deep into the other sides territory, gifting them possession so that they can attack and score! 

That is the Southgate method.

Very unexciting.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I don't think it really matters who is the manager to be honest. 

I think that I could take a group of top footballers who week in week out play excellent football for their clubs at the highest level, and get them to pass it about in the midfield, gradually going backwards until passing it back to the keeper, for him to launch it deep into the other sides territory, gifting them possession so that they can attack and score! 

That is the Southgate method.

Very unexciting.

I think it is the England method. It's how all England teams since Sven have played.    Maybe even before that. 

Think of Sven's so called Golden Generation. Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney, Carragher etc all playing excellent top flight football for their clubs, yet pull on an England jersey and they looked frightened to death whenever they got the ball and got rid of it quickly even if it meant a back pass to the keeper! 

Nothing much has changed since... 

[Raeturbo]

Bollo£ to football a bunch of overpaid Nancy boys.