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Gareth Southgate has gone from England and the fans now want change; would Lee Carsley bring on the ‘chaos’ that would suit this squad?As the autopsy of the Euro 2024 final continues, a number of different cause of death hypothesises have been offered: starting Harry Kane, Declan Rice playing poorly, or simply being too pragmatic.
At each of the four international tournaments Southgate was in charge for, England have lost to the first truly quality opponent they have faced. On Sunday, Mainoo and Rice were largely anonymous as Fabian, Olmo and, first, Rodri, then, Zubimendi ran the show.English youth systems are producing more technically proficient players, but they are predominantly 10s, opposed to 6s or 8s.
This squad proved in Germany that they are capable of great moments, a trait they share with Carlo Ancelotti’s Real Madrid. Gareth’s race is run, he’s been incredible, and now lets get in the U21 manager Carsley or something, lets get a whole Boot Room vibe going..England should have moved on from Southgate after Euro 2020. The final against Italy was a terrific example of Southgate’s utility as a coach. He got the perfect setup, early goal, set up for counter against two ageing center-backs and Jorginho. But, England just refused to counter and gave up after taking the lead.
The petulance, arrogance and self-importance of people in this country is truly astounding. So many people I speak to believe we have the god given right to win these tournaments, all our players are the bestest and it’s only the manager stopping us. Jonny Nic tweeted an article from a few years ago regarding a conversation with someone who spends a lot of time with Premier League footballers. It amounts to something more societal in that these players are not very well educated. I know from personal experience that early on in their lives football dominates everything, all their time, all their effort. To the exclusion of their wider interests and education. This is either encouraged or at least ignored by academies and families.
However Rice is the better tackler, blocker, interceptor and all round defensive player imo and has unreal physicality which I feel makes him the more dynamic dribbler, so I personally think I don’t stand corrected in saying the better combatative DM. Again, I feel this can be seen with your eyes and in numbers.But again, it’s a case of knowing what a player is and isn’t.
He then rolls on to blame everyone else for Kane being gammon all tournament, citing their lack of assists… yeah, obviously, it helps if your striker is available to receive the pass no? No, apparently not. It was everyone else in the team at fault rather than the wandering shadow who scored two tap-ins and a penalty instead of the five or six he might have had if he had done his job. England’s best striker? Get stuffed. I’d rather have Shearer, Wright, Fowler or Cole.
Right wing – Saka, Palmer, Bowen. Why take Bowen for a few minutes in a group stage game, not trusted when it counted. Well as far as England are concerned my opinion is we have probably the lowest drop in quality of any squad at that Euros . Man for man our squad was littered with quality, and that includes Bowen, Eze, Gorden our 3rd choice wingers for example so why not trust them, why stick with a front 4 or 5 that was clearly not firing.John asked Kane in his interview about his fitness and he dodged the question.
At Chelsea in 1971 when we were holders of the European Cup Winners’ Cup l felt with the experience of the previous year we would certainly retain the trophy. There were no fine margins over that period although we were 1-0 in a fifth round replay at Burnley with 15 minutes left, that was after throwing a two goal lead away in the last ten minutes at the Bridge. No sweat!
I didn’t mind because in nine months l had the made Alf Ramsey World Cup squad to retain another trophy – The Jules Rimet Trophy! These were the days coaches or managers couldn’t have your four best players sitting next to you on the bench.
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