Euro 2020: 'England must be let off the leash to end glorious failures'
Southgate, perfectly understandably, looked strained, tired and visibly dejected as he looked back on the pain of Wembley and forward towards the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
This is the context. This is where Southgate has taken England and the upward graph of progress plus the quality of players at his disposal offers hope of a bright future and aspirations for Qatar. Lineker, who it should be stressed was totally supportive and rich in his praise for Southgate's work, wrote: "I think going forward England have to find a way of being more attack-minded. Braver in possession and throwing more people forward. We have the forward talent to scare teams, at present we seem scared ourselves to release that talent."
And there was the penalty strategy, which involved throwing on Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford with seconds to go, stone cold into a penalty shootout with barely a touch of the ball and then both missing a penalty. Risk is at the heart of how Southgate must move England forward now and brings us back to Lineker's Tweet.
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