Sam Allardyce 'wouldn't blame' Gareth Southgate if he walked away from the England manager role

Big Sam deserves another chance!

It is more a reflection on the FA and their small country mentality that they've not sacked him. 3 tournaments, and England have never ever looked like beating a top side. Outclassed by Belgium twice, beaten by Croatia, taken to pens by a mediocre Colombia, beat Denmark thanks to a dive, spent 117 minutes parking the bus vs Italy, beaten by 5th choice Italy 11 in nations league, relegated from nations league without a win in six, should've lost to the USA in this tournament, couldn't take a lead vs France, and got knocked out by the 1st sign of credible opposition…AGAIN.

Southgate's done quite a few important things noone else managed to do successfully with England before:

1: He brought and trusted young talent to great effect even though he faced much criticism when he did that e.g. when he introduced guys like Tripier Pickford and others. Before Southgate England managers would just invite anyone established as a big name in premier league at the time even if they were past their best or in bad form or just didn't fit well with the rest or any system, just to keep it "safe" and avoid much criticism from England's frankly impossible audience.

2: He made the national team look like an actual team with proper tactical systems and automations. Before Southgate there was a collection of players on the pitch doing the best they can on their own initiative, certainly not a proper team. National teams are not like club teams and to see a national team perform like a proper team is quite rare in international football, very few teams have ever managed to do this. Because in their clubs people have professional contracts, they get paid serious money, their careers are on the line and they get to play and practice with each other every day.National teams are a quite different beast. The best club manager would not necessarily make a half decent national team manager, and quite possibly vice versa I guess. And say what you will about the tactics he introduced like it or not, but this is much better than put whoever is the fans favourite on the pitch and just "go out and do your best". This takes quite a lot of effort and excellent organisational and interpersonal skills. Never before Southgate in my lifetime, some 11 world cups until now have I ever seen England play as a proper team before Southgate.

3: The players respect him and each other and there is a good chemistry between them, this is also the work of the team manager to make sure that the people he chooses can work together well but also to maintain that good atmosphere in the team through good and bad times.

4: Southgate has outperformed every other England manager since 1966. Football was different, but besides, 1966 wasn't quite the clean and glorious one people like to remember either; being hosted in England aside, the two semi finals ended up one with an English referee, the other with a German one courtesy of the then British FIFA president sir Stanley Rous's secret ref "lottery" that only him and the German representative saw, with the final coincidentally ending up being England v Germany, but that's a topic for a different discussion.

By any metric England has had good, solid performances since Southgate took over. The only problem England has, is people's unrealistic expectations. The manager's job is to make sure that the team plays as best as possible and that he has succeeded. Guess what, in football not always the best side wins especially when teams are closely matched in strength. England may have lost to France in the quarter final even if it played better than them and when you play better than the defending champions, France I don't see how things can get better under different management. People should keep in mind that Enland may have good players but not the very best in existence, nor did so at any point in living memory, and England is not considered the favourite to win the world cup by anyone. People setting the bar for the national team so high that not conquering the world cup is considered a failure are quite frankly, insane. It can and may eventually happen, but the only way England can win the world cup is with massive tons of luck and/or helpful referees against the other favourites. None of which is under a manager's control. All a manager can do is make sure the team is always in it to win it and performs well on any given day. Which the current manager and the team has done time and again. Messing around with that is just a recipe for disaster.

If it's not broken don't fix it.

Sam.who? Why would I listen to a mig I havent hurd of before. Pathetic

Please Gareth do the right thing and step aside

Give it back to sam and the lucky coin!

He"ll stay on unfortunately as no top club is stupid to employ a loser Manager! He's got no chance of a Top club job! 😆

It's coming home

Yeah is the best thing to do

Such whimps no one has got the bottle to say right get him out why does the media love him so much are they even English fans are they scared of losing their jobs ?

Big Sam has a rather large trophy collection despite never winning anything, he must buy himself one every time he keeps up from relegation 😂

Stevie G is available, Lamps is not pulling up trees at Everton, both have tournament experience compared to Potter or Howe, Steve Cooper won the U17s world cup with Foden, Gallagher, Guehi, Calvert Lewin and did an amazing job with getting Forest up and looks progressive in his views, training methods etc, but he's welsh, Mourinho said he would manage England, but would they enjoy it as much as under Southgate, if Kane scores his pen they could have won which shows how smal the margins are, hopefully they can win the Euros, but a bad ref decision or something else might get in the way again, who knows, Argentina certainly weren't great but there in the final

If it’s foreign or England, let’s bring it home 2026

Who cares wot big Sam says he was the biggest joke in history as an England manager

Southgate😂 what a terrible manager with no plan. Don’t walk away Gareth! Please run away