For months it has felt like Euro 2024 would be Gareth Southgate's swansong as England manager. After Sunday's 2-1 defeat to Spain, now feels a good time to say goodbye.
If so, the former Middlesbrough player and manager should leave with the thanks of a nation, not any bitterness at his failure to deliver the major trophy England have not lifted since 1966. Southgate has not been the perfect England manager, because no such person exists. Even Sir Alf Ramsey got sacked in the end.
Managing the England football team is notoriously difficult but managing its supporters – on social media, on the terraces, in press boxes and television studies – is akin to trying to rein in a kindergarten class half an hour after it was let loose in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
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