James

I think the last sentence is a little harsh. In the past we’ve had so called super managers in charge with teams arguably as talented if not more talented than the current crop. Southgate has mastered the basics of tournament football, he’s topped groups and beaten teams we should beat. In the past, we couldn’t beat Algeria. Let’s give credit where credit is due - a shame he hasn’t quite gotten us there but we’ve been very close twice. I won’t be under estimating the job it takes to do that when the next man comes in. Careful what we wish for is all I’ll say.

Southgate will take a lot of stick but there were some really poor individual performances. Walker, in particular, was wayward for both goals, Rice terrible, Foden terrible, Kane on one leg. You can criticise the manager for being too cautious and for not having the stones to drop the names but he’s not on the pitch with players underperforming like that.

Brilliant ball through midfield to set up the cross too.

If it’s £15m for Delap or £25m for Broja then it has to be Broja.

This has been an absolute joke. Well done Gareth, you’ve done yourself out of the next job.

Imagine someone having the balls to say out loud what we can all see. Maybe Southgate should spend less time dismissing it and more time actually listening.

Don’t have any faith in Southgate to change this. How he has watched the first 3 games and served up shite like this with no changes is ridiculous. It’s actually impressive that he’s made a team this talented look this bad.

Yep. His ego is doing us no favours here.

Another one that is arrogant as fuck as well. Thinks he’s better than he is.

This is trash. Walker needs to be subbed.

Looks miles off.

Tripper is a horrendous left back. But error to not take another if Shaw wasn’t going to play…

Absolutely awful so far.

Absolutely unbelievable to admit that during a tournament.

He has at least been coherent at the last 3 tournaments. This one he’s lost the plot I think. Throwing together combinations that have never been tried and it’s not working.

He was hardly the biggest problem. Poor analysis to just focus on him. No mention of the midfield shit show in the first half…

Kane taking so much stick here. He is hardly the issue. No analysis of the actual issues but what do you expect from the BBC nodding dogs?

Agree. They can’t bear to criticise their mates. Kane taking a lot of flack and he scored the goal. Meanwhile, not one mention of the Trent shambles.

Walker talking incomprehensible defensive nonsense.

Really really poor.

This is back to old dark days of England. Relying on a team of players that have never played together before the tournament…

Gallagher has been so much better already. Hopefully the Trent experiment is now done.

It’s because Liverpool play a system where he steps out into midfield and can play passes from there. How that qualifies you to start in that position for England is beyond me? I read somewhere that he started 3 games for Liverpool in centre mid…

Panel blaming Kane for the goal when Trent is just standing there with his hands in his pockets…

Wouldn’t go that far. The midfield is so unbalanced. If we fix that then we should look a lot better.