England were poor once again v Slovakia but who can we blame? Is it Gareth Southgate or is it Declan Rice or John Stones?
Can I just apologise, on behalf of the English nation, to every single Slovakian football fan. Your boys got absolutely robbed of possibly the biggest result in your country’s history by what I must now admit is the single luckiest football manager on the planet.Genuinely think we’re at a point of England fandom where we could actually win the whole thing, and some proportion of the support will be pissed off because it means another 4 years of Southgate.
Switzerland are going to be a tough task, but I actually think this is the first time England will be playing someone who will come out to win, and will open up a little bit. England are by definition a counter-attacking side, and Switzerland are a team who like to monopolise possession in the opponent’s half. I’m not saying England will win, but they probably will, and I would imagine they will destroy the Swiss on the counter.
I don’t even know what this England team is. We try to play out from the back and keep possession, but don’t have the players in midfield to do that. We sometimes press and sometimes don’t. We kick it long sometimes. Sometimes we try short passes in the middle, but there isn’t enough off the ball movement so the ball is lost. It’s all a muddle.
Just ten minutes before I had a conversation with my wife about ‘how much of a f++k I couldn’t give about us progressing’, such was the level of depression I felt about the manner in which England approached and executed their ‘game plan’. Gomez may as well catch a flight home as it appears that there is no chance of the one fit person in our squad to have played multiple games at LB this season to actually get onto the pitch. Konsa is clearly the favoured one in terms of replacing Trippier .
The way that nothing has really changed in terms of the manner in which Southgate has set us up for games, despite the resultant poor football that it has consistently generated, screams of two things to me – as an individual he is too blinkered or stubborn beyond belief … and secondly, he appears to be surrounded by ‘nodding dog’ coaches.
Suggestion – rather than the England games we’ve had so far you could perhaps just have a film of a plate slowly rotating for 7 hours, complete with a big stinking pile of dog-dirt in the middle, set to the warbled bars of ‘I am the Resurrection’…I am as frustrated as everybody else watching this England side struggle so badly against teams we should be beating easily, with the lack of balance in midfield being a particular problem.
Even the team’s performances smell of colonialism… the billion dollar team of superstars dashing the hopes and dreams of smaller nations. A soulless team in their pure white jersey miserably conquering, leaving a trail of bad vibes while trashing European cafes and bars. Classlessly beating nations whose fans actually like their team, as opposed to despising them. A multi cultural team supported by predominantly gammon faced Reform party voters. What is this mess? It makes no sense.
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