I beg to differ….the pantomime horse arse end.
I see him more as a Professor Quirrell myself.
Because we have eyes and watch the 'football' on offer.
Far too “nice” to be a good auditor
I'm with you, typical knee jerk reactions after one average performance. 4 points from 2 good sides. Serbia and Denmark are no mugs, they have top players playing in top leagues. People think these teams will just roll over and we should win 4-0 every time. Southgate has made us an international team to fear, we are very hard to beat and have world class forwards. He plays the long game, Marathon, not a sprint. We used to be a Clueless rabble at International tournaments. 0-0 v Algeria anyone ? 4-1 against Germany? At Euro 96 we couldn't beat Switzerland at home. Against Spain we were awful, yet people look back and think we were wonderful, and dare I say it, subjective of course, Southgate wouldn't have made the errors that Venables did that lost it. Bobby Robson is regarded fondly by England fans but remember Euro 88? We lost every game and we was the worst team in the whole tournament. We didn't even qualify in 2008
To be fair, he's had a very long time in the job, had excellent groups of players, enjoyed a very easy run to the World Cup Semi and also had home advantage for the last Euros. Qualifying for tournaments is far easier than in the past as there are so many more teams with a diluted pool of talent. He has underachieved by a long way.
