Let's hope this myth about Southgate being a good manager is put to bed. Best squad of players we have ever had and still cant win anything.
Probably we was trying to shift the blame away from the players as he knows how brutal the supposedly fans can be. Don't forget he missed that penalty & he knows how it feels.Didnt Southgate say he picked the takers? I'm not sure if they refused to take one rather than he didn't ask them to.
If they did refuse then you'd be disappointed as you'd think they would step up.
Why just pick on Rashford?4 times you have come on and pointed the finger at Rashford alone!The manager lost us that game,no one else but you seem to have a scapegoat that suits you! Negative tactics,way too late substitutions,and wrong selection of takers!Managers fault and no-one elseSorry mate but rachford taked pens for Utd. Never looked liked scoring that’s what he was brought on for must have been nin the game plane. He missed trying to be clever.
Why just pick on Rashford?4 times you have come on and pointed the finger at Rashford alone!The manager lost us that game,no one else but you seem to have a scapegoat that suits you! Negative tactics,way too late substitutions,and wrong selection of takers!Managers fault and no-one else
Saka should never have been brought on in the first place. How is he rated so high by Southgate? He has been so poor most of the time. Sterling too stunk last night and big H playing in midfield. No service for him in the 6-3-1 set up.Awful decisions from Southgate there,bring two players on after 120 minutes then their first kick is a penalty then put a 17yo on the last penalty!Saka was visibly terrified walking up for that!Terrible management
Only thing we know for certain is that most of them lot will be a few million quid better off than now when the World Cup takes place.Bringing two lads on to take penalties when they hadn't had a touch until that point was a mistake. Grealish and Sterling should have taken one.
That said, no complaining. We've had the best tournament we've had in years and we have a young squad who will only get better for the next few years.
Poor choice of penalty takers aside, Southgate deserves a lot of credit.
Italy deserve the cup on the basis of tonight's game, and on balance, the tournament as a whole. They've been excellent, so no sour grapes from me. Congratulations to Italy.
England move on... World Cup next year: our lads will have learned a lot from this Euros, and they'll be even stronger next year.
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Superb achievement getting to the final.
But was it though Moonay? We had by far the easiest side of the draw, yes we beat the Germans, but they are not a great force at the moment and don't forget we played 99% of games at home. Do you think we would have got through the other side of the draw ? Very doubtful in my opinion.
Hindley, this is our best squad ever when you see the bench we have talent everywhere. If it was used to its proper potential we are European Champions this morning.
I agree if it was used properly it could've won the whole thing, but I'm not sure i'd go as far as to say the best ever squad. It was strong and better than most others at the tournament but in the past we had the likes of Lampard, Gerrard, Scholes, Hargreaves, Beckham, Rooney, Owen, Defoe, Ferdinand, Campbell, Terry and Cole etc in their prime.