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How is it not? Defender misses ball completely and takes out kane. Pen all day and night long

I really hope to fuck we don't spunk this tournament. Southgate needs to fuck off now. It's horrible watching this shit

This tournament has been dire. England getting shit and rightly so but it has been the same boring shite from nearly every team barring Spain. Credit to Austria and Georgia as well but on the whole a horrible tournament so far and the least interested I've ever been. Roll on the new league season

We will probably scrape past Switzerland then beat a bang average Holland on pens and get smashed by Spain in the final. Southgate will be lauded by the media as usual for getting to another final and and anyone that questions him wil be told about his record of semi finals/ finals even though anybody could blindly pick 11 players from this squad and have no tactics or team talk and perform better. He's had the luckiest path to the latter stages in every tournament he's been in charge and done fuck all with it

Yeah fair play I get that. But he deserves to be well known. This tournament will do that I guess but he's way above what we are looking at. We need to hope to get someone like him when Napoli signed him for peanuts

🤣 He's been one of the best players in serie a for the last 2/3 years. Probably an 80m player before the euros so you can add on another 20/30% now. Of course you would have him in saints squad but it's the equivalent of saying you'd have Phil foden in a heartbeat

Those squads undoubtedly better on paper but too many big names that couldn't be left out meant square pegs in round holes. That, and the other big nations being really strong meant it was so much harder to win a major tournament. In recent times, we have had 2 semi finals and a final with a fraud of a manager because we have had a very strong squad and everyone else being at their weakest ever. We went 1-0 up at wembley against a shite Italy and sat back for 88 minutes when they were there for the taking. Anyone that defends Southgate because of recent placings are missing the point. We got that far despite him. If we had even a half competent manager we would have won at least 1 of the last 3 tournaments. I'd cry if saints appointed him he is utter gash

Be hasn't been coherent he's been shite the whole time. Beaten every single time by a decent nation bar an absolute shambles of a German side at wembley and that was by fine margins. Our weak point is defence yet he carries on playing shite negative football. He's made foden, saka, and many others look shite. He even managed to make Bellingham look shite tonight. He's fucking clueless and clung onto the job because we have had the easiest route ever into semi finals/ final in recent tournaments when all the other big nations have been at their weakest for years. If he lucks out and gets a decent club after England I would bet anything I've got he will be sacked in first 6 months. He's woefully out of his depth

Alexander Arnold shouldn't be anywhere near the squad let alone starting 11. He can ping a ball from time to time, that's literally it. The pundits always seem to cream over him. He's an awful footballer on the whole

Did capello have this squad? He had a brilliant squad no doubt, but the other big football nations were strong. Southgates had a long period where we have had the arguably the best attacking players in the world and plays defensive shite when all the usual great teams are at the weakest they've ever been and we still have won fuck all where as a decent manager would have won at least one tournament. Southgate is shite and we have been there or thereabouts despite him and not because of him. Put it this way if he was ever linked with saints I'd be praying it didn't happen

I think brooks coming in and mara starting to gain confidence with more minutes is going to keep us fresh. There's a lot of competition for places now, everyone needs to be on their toes and that can only be a good thing. Will have to check odds if it's worth backing us to win it now but I really think we will. Our bench is so strong nowadays and that means a lot

Possibly so but to say nearly half a season of league games unbeaten is an easy run is fucking ludicrous

Just seen this quote off the Leeds forum🤣 Southampton riding the wave of an easy run atm ..they have the hardest part of their season still to come An easy run lasting 20 odd league games 🤣 Them being one of the victims in that easy run🤣 this team is probably the most mentally strong in my lifetime. We are going up no doubt about it

I think Plymouth rode their luck. First half was dominant could have been 4,5,6 nil at half time of luck was on our side. 3 points still and what a run

Can your simple mind understand that our squad is easily in the best 3 of this division? Easily. Hence why we were among the favourites to win/promoted with the bookies and the fact we kept a few top quality players that were expected to leave. Decent managers get the best out of the best players. They don't have one system only and no other plan. Only have to look when Sunderland spanked us. A seasoned experienced manager like mowbray sets his team up depending on who they're playing. Sunderland are shite but he knew how we would play and set his team up with inferior players to beat us. We play one way only and if it doesn't work Martin just comes out and says it takes time and the rest of the bullshit

The championship is shite. We may have struggled last few years but the difference between prem and championship is massive. We have a squad that any half decent, tactically aware manager would get us promoted with ease. Hence why I compare to Southgate and England. Southgate is shite. I wouldn't want him as saints manager. He's been fortunate that he has an unbelievable amount of talent that give him an ok record despite the fact that the attacking players we have is insane. Pace, skill, dribbling yet we play turgid shite. The England squad is not dissimilar to the city squad in terms of quality and pace yet look at the contrast in styles of play. Put it this way if pep was in charge of England we would blow teams away. Southgate in charge of city and he sucks the life out of them

The evidence that teams with good attacking players should play to their strengths and attack. It's not hard to understand. And to say England have been more successful recently than Brazil shows your ignorance

Yeah, despite of Southgate not because of him. Put a decent manager in charge of this England squad over the last 4/5 years and we rip teams apart, not plod through and shit ourselves against any half decent team we play against. It's not cliché it's a thing that when you're clearly better than the opposition you shouldn't shite your pants and play negative,slow, shite football

Yeah when you have the quality of course you attack. Have Brazil been the best footballing nation of all time by winning possession stats or utilising their qualities? Play to your strengths and our strength is clearly not keeping clean sheets so why not play with pace and attack teams? Like I say similar to England our talent and strength is further forward so playing this slow shite is stifling us just like Southgate does. Negative boring shite. Doesn't take a simpleton to work it out. Love the way as well instead of actually having a debate you resort to insults. Shows who the simpleton is

This whole thing seems similar to England and Southgate. Southgate has his supporters because of where England have come in recent tournaments but I think that's in spite of Southgate not because of him. A decent manager and England would have won one of the last 3 tournaments. A squad and starting 11 that should be going all out attack with the quality but instead play Tippy tappy slow shite that gives any team against them a chance. A decent manager with our squad should be blowing most teams out of the water and not be grateful we are still in play off places and scraping draws away to preston

They have a manager that can see how one dimensional we are and target our many and obvious weaknesses and set up and play how they need to depending on opposition, like mowbray couple of weeks ago. We keep getting clueless hipster cunts that have their (shite) way of playing and that's it. I'd take an allardyce or another so called dinosaur all day long. He would easily get this squad promoted. We've got the worst keeper I've ever seen but old Russ has committed to him by his comments a couple of weeks ago so even though he must know by now he's dog shit, I can't see him dropping him. The fish fiddler's call him their secret agent. I believe it because surely a pro keeper cannot be as bad as he is. And McCarthy is as bad. We have the worst keepers in the whole football league I would say

Or just god awful coaching. Who knows? Had some talented players that have started brightly and just had all confidence sapped out of them. Even tadic who was still class for us got some shit. Went to Ajax for pittance and was ripping real Madrid apart in champions League. If we signed him after that everyone would be creaming their pants but he wasn't appreciated here fully. Probably too clever for players around him ditto Ramirez and gabbiadini. Need a manager that knows his shit rather than a one way of playing and that's it kind of guy. Look at tony mowbray. If we had got him there would have been uproar but his experience meant he spent the week knowing exactly how we play and how to pick us apart and he won that game. Our players man for man are better than Sunderland's but we were picked apart by a better prepared inferior team

Martin claiming that if we didn't already have bazunu he would be somebody he would want to sign could prove to be his downfall. Defense hopefully will improve but having a reliable keeper gives defence more confidence and visa versa. At the moment we have suspect defence with a keeper behind them that doesn't make any saves, recipe for disaster. Forster looked class when he had fonte and alderweireld in front of him and in turn they were more solid because they had a brick wall in wanyama and schneiderlin sat in front of them. Confidence breeds confidence if everyone trusts each other they know they can play and the odd mistake will be picked up and sorted by someone else. Haven't had that for years there's been too many weak links/bottlers/billy big bollocks

Don't know why anybody in this day and age is paying through the roof for sky,bt etc. Only get handle of games when there's countless IPTV providers . Tenner a month and get every game going not to mention all the boxing ppvs and everything else. Can get them dirt cheap if you pay for a year but I prefer to pay monthly and if they get any issues just go to another one. Only on about 3rd one in 7/8 years so they're pretty reliable. Some of these overhyped boxing events are pushing 30 ppv that's 3 months of IPTV money covered in a night