10 Jul 2024 21:26:09
Got to love Southgate England the dominant team first half now they've been told to play for penalties.
10 Jul 2024 21:58:56
You were saying.
10 Jul 2024 21:59:13
And yet he gets away with.
Again.
Maybe Southgate is secretly a football genius and everyone else is wrong?
10 Jul 2024 22:03:54
Remember it’s always best to post nonsense like this once the game is finished otherwise you’ll look foolish.
10 Jul 2024 22:15:03
Congrats to England ? another final for Southgate. Let's hope this time we win at last ?.
10 Jul 2024 22:23:26
Another disappointing victory.
Ah well ?.
10 Jul 2024 22:34:15
My thoughts are with The Colonel and Jaguar at this difficult time.
10 Jul 2024 22:35:59
SR, he's no genius. The players have simply been saving his hide by gradually playing closer to the level they usually play at.
10 Jul 2024 22:39:58
Personally feel he has got away with one again. Time and time again he gets figured out mid game and has no answer. The Dutch were poor tonight and a great striker's goal has seen it through.
I might be being harsh on him, but I just don’t rate him at all. But having said all that there is hope that they might just get over the line on Sunday.
10 Jul 2024 22:45:03
Aray, but when the players weren't playing well, that was Southgate's fault? It all makes sense.
10 Jul 2024 22:45:57
Aye, the players saved him. The players he picked. Were some of you expecting Southgate to play and win the game himself?
10 Jul 2024 22:50:09
Hopefully he's working his way into consideration for the Man U job when Seven Hag has them 11th mid season.
10 Jul 2024 22:52:40
My thoughts are with all those who gave Southgate dogs abuse for his attire and being the only England manager to get them into two finals ?.
10 Jul 2024 23:31:41
The squad is superb and any average manager should be getting to the final as a minimum. The problem is fans have with Southgate is that the style of play is pedestrian and unexciting. He seems paralysed when changes are clearly needed. When he does make changes and achieves a balance in the team he then reverses it back to the pedestrian style the next game. But mostly we know that a good manager such as Klopp would not only have that squad in the final, they’d be battering teams and it would be entertaining. Anyway. I wish him all the best on Sunday. If we win, I won’t care lol.
11 Jul 2024 00:28:39
Maybe Southgate is an absolute genius and nobody else can see it.
10 Jul 2024 21:47:19
Spain will rip either one to shreds! I can’t wait.
10 Jul 2024 22:56:07
Some people are just better at internattonal management. Are you saying Southgate has fluked 2 finals? While other “great” England managers couldn’t manage one between them?
10 Jul 2024 23:25:46
It can't be a good place to be when you can't give Sir Gareth or his team some credit for reaching the final. I know there is a a lot of egg on a lot of faces but it's only your pride messing with you.
Put it behind you, give Spain and England some credit and look forward to the final, whoever you want to win it.
10 Jul 2024 23:29:42
The tactics of having a “Striker” on for 70 mins doing absolutely jack that the opposition get bored to death forget they are playing a game then putting on an actual player who has been making them runs all season is genius! Imagine if he had a player on the bench who has one hell of a right peg who could pick out them runs in the final… no it’s just Kane and Walker again, ok.
11 Jul 2024 02:56:52
Sorry, I still think Southgate is a bad coach. Could he get Switzerland out the group stages, let alone get to the quarter finals? I think not. He has the benefit of having players who can change a game with moments of quality, his one redeeming quality is making England hard to score against and hard to counter attack because of his painfully slow and conservative style when on the ball, and then hoping that his players get him a result. England could well win the whole thing but can anybody say that the team played well, or that any single player played well through the tournament? Of course there will be people who say it doesn’t matter, but I’ve yet to see any proof that England getting this far is because of superior acumen on the part of Southgate.
11 Jul 2024 05:59:19
They call him southgoat now, football genius.
11 Jul 2024 07:01:58
Whatever criticisms come his way, he's made two finals now - who else has done that for England?
England played much better last night though only clicked when they got the most ridiculous penalty i've ever seen given at a major competition - that 'decision' gave England the momentum and knocked the absolute stuffing out of Holland - before that, the game was the sort of scrappy semi final you would expect
Saka played well, Foden too especially when he drifted more out to the right - who knew eh? Was wasted on the left.
Trippier awful - could Saka not have been better at lwb and maybe Trent as the rwb?
Amazing too how much more fluid England looked when Watkins came on for Kane - great finish too to be fair, right at the death.
11 Jul 2024 07:13:42
Worse penalties in the PL Bill.
11 Jul 2024 07:55:16
Come on lads, cheer up. We’ve binned off the tories and if England win the tournament then there has to be a good chance that Southgate ends up as United manager as they love that kind of thing. Win win as far as I’m concerned.
11 Jul 2024 10:25:00
If England win and Southgate doesn’t get the United job I’m holding you personally accountable, Viktor.
11 Jul 2024 12:02:52
Irish, that's a mighty high bar that you've set; just getting to the final in a tournament. Is that the highest that the English can and should aspire to? What happened to winning? Just getting to the final is enough to walk around beating your chest? ?.
{Ed025's Note - but to win anything you have to get to the final first ArAy so up to now its job done mate, if we lose its a failure and if we win its success..thats just the way it is..
11 Jul 2024 14:50:24
ArAy, the point is that all the other managers since SAR couldn't even get to a final.