After 102 games and almost eight years in charge, Gareth Southgate has announced he is to leave his role as manager of the #ThreeLions.
by lazzzym
After 102 games and almost eight years in charge, Gareth Southgate has announced he is to leave his role as manager of the #ThreeLions.
by lazzzym
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So, the curse is over?
He’s had a great run. No, we haven’t won anything but, getting to finals and semis as much as he has is still a lot more than we’ve achieved in my fifty years. Best of luck to him.
Good. He has a run but it was starting to peter out.
Thanks Mr Southgate, you turned around a hopeless institution packed with wankers (see John Terry et al) and made a team of fabulous humans who played better than anyone expected. I’ll take two Euros finals back-to-back over the previous mess. Football is ridiculously complex and everyone seems to think you can win by changing tactics or making substitutions, as if there isn’t another team to beat as well.
I hope England build on the amazing achievements so far.
Now we will go back to the bi-annual changing of managers, because the Sun says they are shit.
Well, back to business as usual then.
As a football manager it is important to think about what comes next.
Pizza Hut: about that new commercial…
I want to relieve the summer of 2018 as it was a classic summer as we had heatwaves and football fever was gripping through the nations as we unexpectedly reached the semi finals of the World Cup only 2 years after the embarrassing Iceland defeat. Thank you Gareth.
Very conflicting. On the one hand he has gotten us to multiple finals and has been extremely successful. On the other hand he didn’t have the balls to drop Kane, didn’t start Palmer who is clearly a game changer and stuck with players who weren’t playing well over players could have added some attacking threat (why take Watkins, Toney, Bowen, Gordon and Eze if you have no intention of playing them when we needed it most)
He’s done a great job but I think everyone will agree with the talent we have in the squad we should be playing a lot better football. Hopefully we get an exciting manager in and not bland FA appointment.
It was time to go though he managed to cultivate a positive and friendly atmosphere in the camp where previously (in the Lampard/Gerrard days) the players would only associate with players from their own clubs.
The players we have now are genuinely world class and I think England would have got as far as they did in each tournament regardless of who the manager was, with the nice draws they had.
It felt like every time we faced equal or better opposition in a major tournament, he seemed out of his depth with his team selection, tactics and especially substitutions. He used a style of football which did not yield many attacks game after game, and yet he refused to deviate from it.
Outside of this tournament, he would pick players who were playing woefully or not even playing at all. They’d put in a 3/10 performance, and then get picked again. I’m thinking Phillips, Maguire, Sterling etc.
In 2012, 2014 & 2016, we had some real duds in our squads like Martin Kelly, Andy Carroll, Joleon Lescott, Stewart Downing, Danny Welbeck, Daniel Sturridge, Phil Jones, Rickie Lambert, Danny Rose and Nathaniel Clyne. You’re not winning anything with those players.
But my overriding memory, will be the joy of being at a mates house, or in the pub with genuine belief we could something out of a game. Never had that McLaren, Capello or Roy.