FA confirm Southgate will stay on until after Euro 2024 (p 101)

[eyalluvitt]

What’s more mind blowing is there are posters saying they played well!! Very very low expectations is the only reason I can think of to come to that conclusion.

We maybe didn’t play well but we still played better than France did

 

[coolcity]

Fine margins, Maguire bags his absolute sitter of a header and Kane slots his second pen and Southgate is a hero today

No, I wouldn't say that. Most fans haven't rated Southgate even after semi and a final, and even if we had won it I suspect many would say that was in spite of his management rather than a a result of it.

 

[Phil1]

Eh? You could say the same about any City fan in the late 90's. There's a huge difference between supporting your team, as most of us do, and thinking they're the best in the world, which I've never heard ANY England fan say.

Sure, you get the songs, the chants, so does every other team/country in the world, that's just part of the match day banter. Or can't you tell the difference? Or are you saying we shouldn't support our country because they won't win anything?

None of that has anything remotely to do with what I posted. You can support a team and still want them to be better. Blind support is for sad sacks.

 

[Phil1]

We maybe didn’t play well but we still played better than France did

More possession sure. But then they were happy for us to have the ball because we didn’t have the bollocks to do anything with it.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Could Wiegman do both jobs?

 

[andyhinch]

None of that has anything remotely to do with what I posted. You can support a team and still want them to be better. Blind support is for sad sacks.

Most of us supported them with the likes of Ball, Pearce etc in charge even though we knew the manager was shit.

 

[coolcity]

We maybe didn’t play well but we still played better than France did

The point is we didn't play well because of the way Southgate has us set up. We have the players, we just don't have the manager.

Look at the first half for example, all we got when we had the ball in our half was Maguire taking the ball around form side to side. No movement, no urgency, in fact at times he was playing like we were trying to hang on to a 1-0 win, not losing 0-1. By contrast look at the French. Every time they had the ball in their half, within seconds they were in our half, attacking.

We had a rapid player on the left wing same as they did, the difference is we didn't use him. See the pattern? HOW we play is down to the managers tactics.

 

[Petethemancinleeds]

2 more yrs of Southgate with a smooth handover to the man who has already got the best out of 25% of the squad, arise Sir Pep.

 

[Hart of the Matter]

No real chances from open play, no out ball or support for our front 3 resulting in backward play. No overlapping defenders, shite substitutions and poor defending for second goal.
We never once looked like scoring from open play despite our possession. Did we fuck outplay them. But let's blame the ref. We had two pens and two free kicks in prime position.
We played to their strengths (blocking Mbappe) instead of utilising our own. That will never win top matches...
We beat no one of calibre in this world cup despite having an amazing squad...
Don't let the media narrative and blah blah fool you. Southgate and his tactics let us down badly.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Could Wiegman do both jobs?

No experience in the men's game has she?

Perhaps even more daft than appointing Phil Chuckle to women's team.