He's also a smashing looking fella. No one ever said this about Big Sam: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2018/jun/19/gareth-southgate-unstoppable-style-icon-most-fashionable-man-football
Maybe I've missed something, but how do we know Southgate fails to inspire/motivate the players? I don't have a clue what he's like behind closed doors.
That's not the narrative. I didn't see much questioning of the Tunisian penalty. The narrative is that Harry Kane should have got two penalties and we all love Harry Kane and we want to have Harry Kane's babies.
At first I was against it. But then I heard the VAR referees have to wear the full referees kit and now I'm for it.
Nah I'm kidding. It'll be a fucking disaster.
Imagine spending your time obsessively consuming media coverage of England, working yourself into a state about it then writing tracts about it on the internet.
I'd recommend anyone in Scotland (Wales, NI, etc) do what we in England do and just recognise it for what it is and ignore it.
I'm with WNM on this one. Clarke was good at the unspectacular stuff (good in the air, lumping the ball forward) but if anyone was running at him or we got caught on the break his lack of pace and poor positioning made him a bit of a liability. If he's alongside a CB with a bit of pace and...