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32 Comments

  1. F me he got them to the finals , why is subjected to so much criticism?If they won the Euro's he would have been seen as a hero.
    Respect Gareth Southgate from Chris in NZ

    R

  2. It was not just Gary Linekar. Everyone of the Uk press were giving Gareth Southgate a hardvtime. If not much worse than Gary Linekar. In fact the presenters of the Radio station called Talk Sport really gave Gareth a roasting.

  3. Look Southgate’s done well, got us to finals, just couldn’t get over the line, needed to be braver, played Foden on the left out of position then switched it up which was good but Jude had to drift in and out from the left when we need him going through the middle, Kane was awful would of started Watkins after his winner. We can’t waste this talent we’ve got, need better tactics to get it over the line. Also can’t keep sitting back after we score, would of maybe gave Gordon a run and played 1 number 10 and kept switching Foden and Jude so they stayed fresh or dropped Jude back a bit and Foden 10

  4. Lineker won nothing with England and didn’t even make a final and was obviously not cut out for coaching so what does he do…..undermines the most successful England Manager since 66 on tv! So negative !

  5. Be careful what you wish for, all you idiots who called for him to resign. He has got us closer than any of the others ever got us.

  6. England did win something at the Euros…. as the team who played the most back passes! Terrible manager, never used the wings or crosses.Played people out of position, still played stars when they were obviously injured or off form. Forwards standing back to goal, rest passing sideways and backwards and goal keeper instead of throwing to feet and building play, kicks in the air to the opposition. They only plus point was they practiced penalties… I wonder why that was?

  7. Lineker is just an idiot. Everything that comes out of his mouth is just pathetic drivel. He's nothing but a hypocrite and I can imagine that lots of people are happy that he'd bogged off from MOTD