Southgate quote:

[tonymgc]

"Sussex isn't exactly a hotbed of football"

Opinions?

 

[culvers]

He's right isn't he?

 

[the right footed denilson]

He's right.

 

[Smithy]

1 club in the football league - 4 years in the top flight. Yes, he's right.

 

[gullshark]

He's right though if you compare to some places, but then again you could say that places like Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire aren't footballing hotbeds if you apply the same logic.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

He's correct.

 

[Fef]

Yup - he's got a point !

 

[Forster's Armband]

Hang on, the fact he qualified that with Brighton lost 3-0 at Stoke was idiotic. It's not a hot bed but it glosses over the fact we are winning our league, playing great football and about to move into a world class stadium. Ill educated sloppy comment from a ex-palace defender.

 

[del strangefish]

Penalty missing jobless dullard!

 

[brunswick]

his managerial brain is hardly a hotbed of football either, his looks mean he has never beein in a hotbed, and his penalty miss was a f00king coldmattress.

 

[timbha]

he also said the only famous person to come out of Crawley was Alan Minter. What about Daley Thompson? or....Gareth Southgate (perhaps he doesn't usually admit it)

 

[Barrel of Fun]

How many top class footballers, in the last twenty or thirty years, have come from Sussex?

 

[nevergoagain]

It's not exactly a hotbed of horse faced wankers either now he doesn't live here.

 

[del strangefish]

he also said the only famous person to come out of Crawley was Alan Minter. What about Daley Thompson? or....Gareth Southgate (perhaps he doesn't usually admit it)

The Cure, Kare Moss, Gatwick Airport...!

 

[Hunting 784561]

Great comment from the ex Crawley boy there...

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

He's right though if you compare to some places, but then again you could say that places like Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire aren't footballing hotbeds if you apply the same logic.

Very true

 

[fleet]

Southgate doesn't come over as a mastermind does he?

 

[portlock seagull]

Hang on, the fact he qualified that with Brighton lost 3-0 at Stoke was idiotic. It's not a hot bed but it glosses over the fact we are winning our league, playing great football and about to move into a world class stadium. Ill educated sloppy comment from a ex-palace defender.

er, he's a sussex lad...he should know!!

 

[Rookie]

Tis true though. Think Clough said the same sort of thing when he was here, bit in FourFourTwo that said just 37 players from Dorset, Hampshire and Sussex have got an England cap since 1872.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Southgate,Middlesboro = Hotbed ?