Can’t they just tell him he nearly got one but fell at the last hurdle?
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[Football] Southgate knighthood ? what do you think ?
- Thread starter Binney on acid
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Best England manager of my life time with a squad that was VASTLY easy over hyped before each tournament.
Did a decent job, restored some pride in playing for your country that was very much lost under Capello, McClaren etc etc, led the team with honesty and humility and got us to two more finals than anyone else since 1966.
Couldn't care less about whether he gets a knighthood or not, but there have been far, far worse ones out there.
Did a decent job, restored some pride in playing for your country that was very much lost under Capello, McClaren etc etc, led the team with honesty and humility and got us to two more finals than anyone else since 1966.
Couldn't care less about whether he gets a knighthood or not, but there have been far, far worse ones out there.
nicko31
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Good summary. The slagging off of Southgate from many I find ridiculous, he achieved more than Venables and Robson combined. The rest achieved very little.
The problem with England is always expectation and its unusually not realistic
Plot twist - he’s actually getting it for this
Particularly in Scotland
Perfidious Albion
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Let him win a World Cup like Sir Alf 
before knighthoods are spoken of.
before knighthoods are spoken of.
Jackthelad
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- Mar 31, 2010
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He had the most talented crop of English players we've seen possibly ever and failed to win anything. Give him a job at any club team in English league and he would be sacked within a year.
Can’t agree with that, 2001/06 probably the best England side ever. Beckham, Owen, Gerrard, Cole, Scholes, Neville, Carragher to name a few. All individually better in there respective positions.
hart's shirt
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Gareth Southgate has revealed on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that he made the decision to leave his job as England manager before the end of Euro 2024.He even gets his own Desert Island Discs on Sunday.....
BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Gareth Southgate OBE, football manager
Gareth Southgate, football manager, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.www.bbc.co.uk
The 54-year-old, who was a guest on the latest episode of the long-running programme, chose Adele's Someone Like You as one of the eight songs he would take with him if cast away to a desert island, explaining to presenter Lauren Laverne that he "kept playing it towards the end of the last Euros" because "I knew I was going to be leaving".
He admitted that he had already decided before the final that it was "time for change on all sides".
Speaking about the Adele track, Southgate said: "There were so many of the words in it that, even if I hear it today, it relates to my relationship with England."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy4pdjpvz17o
What a load of saccharine, self-indulgent soppy nonsense.
But if he'd have offered excitement for the footballing romantics of us, he might have won the prize, ended up with the girl and avoided 'what if' regret.
Faint heart never won fair lady, Gareth.
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Adele and Ed Sheeran on his list…….imagine my surpriseGareth Southgate has revealed on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that he made the decision to leave his job as England manager before the end of Euro 2024.
The 54-year-old, who was a guest on the latest episode of the long-running programme, chose Adele's Someone Like You as one of the eight songs he would take with him if cast away to a desert island, explaining to presenter Lauren Laverne that he "kept playing it towards the end of the last Euros" because "I knew I was going to be leaving".
He admitted that he had already decided before the final that it was "time for change on all sides".
Speaking about the Adele track, Southgate said: "There were so many of the words in it that, even if I hear it today, it relates to my relationship with England."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy4pdjpvz17o
What a load of saccharine, self-indulgent soppy nonsense.
But if he'd have offered tactical excitement for the footballing romantics of us, he'd might have won the prize, ended up with the girl and avoided regret.
Faint heart never won fair lady, Gareth.
- Mar 23, 2023
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If he gets a knighthood for doing his job (for which he was exceptionally well paid) and not even particularly excelling at it then pretty much every person in the uk deserves a knighthood.
It seems it is more about celebrity rather than anything he himself has done.
Get rid of the whole stupid concept, unless he is gonna strap on a metal suit and do battle to the death.
It seems it is more about celebrity rather than anything he himself has done.
Get rid of the whole stupid concept, unless he is gonna strap on a metal suit and do battle to the death.
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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At times that's what it seemed he had Harry Maguire doing
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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I really don’t care. It’s all political anyway. OBE is other buggers efforts etc
I think he did everything he could and it was simply the players' (bottling it at the big matches) mentality that let us down, ultimately. So I don't blame Southgate for not winning anything. On that basis - I wouldn't have a problem with him being given a knighthood.
Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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But like Lap Dancing, cost many of us a fortune with no end product
