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He should have been sacked after the 2021 final. Played an ancient Italy side, overrun them for twenty minutes then sat back to wait to lose. See also; Croatia 2018, France 2022 and every fucking game of this tournament. How the fuck do you retreat to a low block with a billion quids worth of footballers every time you score a goal?

Fuck off. We are wasting the best collection of Ingerland players in three generations. They should get rid. They'll probably give him a fucking award, instead.

You don't even need an elite manager to get a tune out of these. Even a decent one would do.

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@puerto rock congrats my friend. Well deserved and the best team won. Enjoy.

MTF

 

Shearer reckons Southgate is done.

 

No I think he'll be quietly and subtly got rid of.

The question is then who do bring in!?

 

Anyone half decent will do. Literally ANYONE. You're literally trusting a billion pound squad to a bloke whose last proper job saw him relegated at Middlesbrough, over a decade ago. Takes a good, but not great, manager and ask what they do with this group of players... Never mind Klopp or Pep,; what does Eddie Howe do with them, for example?

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He should be. So should Shearer.

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Forget Howe. He's got money at Newcastle. And nobody will want the poisoned chalice of "going one better"...... Especially not a guy who has it all going for him at Newcastle.

Yes Howe might be an improvement but it's not happening.

 

Alan's a company man..

 

Kane is injured. It's obvious to anyone with a pair of working eyes. He should have been stepped down five weeks ago and a new tactical system worked through but he arrogantly played him in every game until eventually we play a side who take the piss for fifty minutes, then he brings him off and drops in a bloke whose has had less than an hour of fitbaw in a month.

Clueless.

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One thing I'd say :- go thru England's 7 games. How long did they lead for over those 7 combined in normal time?

80 mins Vs Serbia
16 Vs Denmark
0 Vs Slovenia
0 Vs Slovakia
0 Vs Switzerland
4 Vs Holland
0 Vs Spain

Hard to win tournaments like that.... 100 minutes out of 630.

 

Not for a second do I imagine that Howe goes to Ingerland. He was an example of someone competent who does an infinitely better job than this clown.

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Crap. Yet there's more chance that they knight him than sack him. Loser mentality.

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That's politics for you. You know how it works. Risk takers and mavericks don't get the job.

 

I think it's both. Sacked and knighted as a consolation.

 

Right. I'm about eleven pints deep and I'd rather play pool and drink another eight than dwell on that shite. Best of British to all () and I'll see you all on the other side.

Congrats again to the deserved winners.

MTF

 

Missed this earlier. Fuck's sake...

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Spain, give it take, held leads for up to 300 minutes over 7 games.

England held leads for about 100 minutes.

Spain were behind for about 30.

England were behind for a lot more than that.

England also scored 3 goals in the last 15.

 

Fuck off.

 

The USMNT made me him an offer. I'm assuming he laughed.

 

A lot of those England players looked tired, Saka, Bellingham and Foden...Spain were better so justice served, it's the last final against Italy which is the one that got away. Whatever about Gareth's limitations, dude is quite lucky, England have lucked out in terms of the side of the draw, repeatedly. He also appears to be an exception Al man manager, which is big for international tournaments.

 

Shay Given made a good point about Watkins pressing hell out of Símon and Denormand whereas Kane was jogging.......

 

Really?!

 

I'm not even that mad tbh. Spain deserved it. I'll always have respect for what Southgate took us from, and getting over that semi-final hurdle, twice, is HUGE, I don't care what anyone says. It was a massive mental block. I've always said though he's not the guy to get us across the line, he has to go. I didn't think we would win this tournament, I thought the next Euros, being on home soil, would be our best shot, so again he's punched above his weight as a manager. We need somebody more attacking minded who will utilise the talent we have. Howe has always been my choice if we are going for English managers.

 

England have to target that next Euros. FA must basically select next manager on that footing,to win Euro 2028.

Ruckus kicking off outside now .....smfh

 

Thicko.

 

Pressing only works as a team. You have to put five blokes into a unit going together. One bloke pressing on their own is just a dafty charging about...

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Howe would be perfect.. Fuck off and leave him alone, though.

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I've said this before but I'll say this then continue getting shit-arsed. I've played Step 6 footy. Captained and managed decent semi-pro sides, so have a bit about myself. You've got to press as a unit, if that's the play. Spain did it lovely. Five men around the 18 yard box, pressing in lines as a unit. You can't just send one bloke to charge around after people. It's a waste of effort - you just get passed around and worn out. It's a proper, planned tactic. You have to play it.

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I have things going on but I can make room. Can you help me prepare for the interview?