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lifeskyblue

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Bellingham best player in an England shirt by a country mile. Think saka will do better second half as Senegal have to take risks but I feel is too easily ‘bullied’ when he doesn’t have space.
Although Henderson scored he is past his footballing best but clearly looked up to by younger players. Would like to see him replaced by maddison after 60mins


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Evo1883

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I think sven could have done better with England , but there were alot of good teams , hard to compare eras , could Southgate have taken that England dream to glory as manager ? Doubt it
 
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Southgate will be the most successful international manager for England in my lifetime - I’m sure you’ll still complain his lack of ambition as we score our 11th goal of the competition
He is the most successful manager in my lifetime and in most posters on here. By quite a distance
 

Evo1883

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He is the most successful manager in my lifetime and in most posters on here. By quite a distance

It's still very hard to not look at the fact that the routes we had in past tournaments were a piece of piss , compared to what we're about to go through

It's undeniably a reason he managed to take us where he did , he failed in ALL his major matches against decent sides

Euros v Italy

WC v Croatia

Nations league v Dutch

Fuxked all 3 with his negative tactics
 

TomRad85

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It's still very hard to not look at the fact that the routes we had in past tournaments were a piece of piss , compared to what we're about to go through
I think ultimately he's yet to show that he's capable of putting a plan together to beat the top tier teams. Beat the teams we should be beating generally which is good but I think we're about to find out vs France whether he's learned any lessons.

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Grendel

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He is the most successful manager in my lifetime and in most posters on here. By quite a distance

He i suspect will be gone after this tournament but you are disappointed at a semi final and final makes you yearn for the Cappello years
 

Evo1883

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I think ultimately he's yet to show that he's capable of putting a plan together to beat the top tier teams. Beat the teams we should be beating generally which is good but I think we're about to find out vs France whether he's learned any lessons.

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No top side will employ him after his England stint I'm sure of that
 

Liquid Gold

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I think ultimately he's yet to show that he's capable of putting a plan together to beat the top tier teams. Beat the teams we should be beating generally which is good but I think we're about to find out vs France whether he's learned any lessons.

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I think this is pretty much spot on.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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So why the inconsistency?
G I think dislikes Robins because of previous closeness to the owners, perceived or real. Southgate for me plays in an unnecessarily conservative style given the players at his disposal.

His record against top tier sides generally shows this to be an error
 

Evo1883

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He i suspect will be gone after this tournament but you are disappointed at a semi final and final makes you yearn for the Cappello years

Bloke had 1 tournament, we were knocked out by a German side on the up that won the WC 4 years later , at a time where our old guard were on its last legs .

Hardly even remotely comparible
 

Grendel

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Grendel

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G I think dislikes Robins because of previous closeness to the owners, perceived or real. Southgate for me plays in an unnecessarily conservative style given the players at his disposal.

His record against top tier sides generally shows this to be an error
I’m sure he will leave after this anyway so who would you pick next?
 

Evo1883

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Alf Ramsey was rubbish afterwards as well

Ramsey won us the world cup Southgate is adored by some despite having the easiest routes in living memory and still fucking it up 3 times btw in 3 tournaments


His record against top sides is pretty grim
 

Grendel

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Bloke had 1 tournament, we were knocked out by a German side on the up that won the WC 4 years later , at a time where our old guard were on its last legs .

Hardly even remotely comparible

Whatever you think of Southgate the players - especially the young ones - like him and work with him

Cappello was aloof and a disaster

His strength is he engages with players and gives them belief and defends them against media nonsense
 

SIR ERNIE

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Different game since that first goal. Any defensive shape they had has gone. Could be 5 or 6.
 
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Ramsey won us the world cup Southgate is adored by some despite having the easiest routes in living memory and still fucking it up 3 times btw in 3 tournaments


His record against top sides is pretty grim
Many England managers have grim records against poor teams.
 

Evo1883

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Whatever you think of Southgate the players - especially the young ones - like him and work with him

Cappello was aloof and a disaster

His strength is he engages with players and gives them belief and defends them against media nonsense

I agree the players like Southgate and play for him ..

Sounds like another manager you know
 

SBT

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Are we already at the ‘England only win because they get easy draws’ stage of Southgate-rage?
 

Sick Boy

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The Italians have been raving about Bellingham all tournament. I don’t think we’re going to see Maddison get a game.
 

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