mike_field
Vital Football Legend
Pickford's impressed me to be fair.Which we did when we played Colombia - we scored a goal (1 bloody goal!) and then the only pass we could make was back to our headless chicken of a goalie!
France in the final as stated by someone else would’ve been embarrassing.
Listening to Southgate now saying we’ve given it all just shows we’ll never win anything in the next 15 years with these players. We are just about better than the likes of Sweden and Tunisia. When it comes to the real big boys, we’re 20-25 years of grass roots coaching of players away and in that time the game will have changed ten fold again.
Agree on France but long term may have actually been more useful - a proper embarrassment instead of the old line of gutsy losers.
Disagree on last bit even knowing Southgate was just trying to avoid a quote in headline. They did give everything. But there's a difference between giving everything and doing everything. We didn't do everything, we gave everything running around like idiots with no discipline and structure by the end.
I can't fault the effort - I can fault how they used that effort. But it blinds out game. Player runs around forever fans love him. Player stands still choosing his time, he's a lazy fucker taking his wage not trying. Can't have it both ways and this country tries to that's why expectation has always been off with England.