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Sunderland: we’re interested in your manager and would like to discuss a compensation package. L’Orient: how much do you want?

I'm not saying Southgate is the problem but his £500m or so midfield were dominated by someone who died three years ago but even more damning struggles to start games for Man United.

In fairness to Southgate he hasn’t had a whole lot of time to prepare for this situation. No one expected Philips form to drop off a cliff after two years of not playing football.

ewerk up early sniffing the loungers where those American lasses lie.

If you start a thread in this forum, is it possible to block a specific member from being able to reply/post ??? I am thinking of starting a 24/25 predictions thread, better safe than sorry.

I have to say that the combination of England's almost unheard of wealth of attacking options and Southgate's overwhelming commitment to making each game a complete snorefest, from an Australian perspective, is nothing short of pure theatre.

They had three match threads up for our friendly vs Spurs down under - their lack of self-awareness is unrivalled

Hard to think of a name that would sound good with that accent either mind.

Regis Le Bris, he's called. Hard to think of a name that would sound worse with a mackem accent.

It's ridiculous. Shaw has been out for 4 months. He was still injured when Southgate selected him as the only LB in the squad. If your first choice LB is injured, you find the next best English LB and you pick them. That's Chilwell, also injured, so on to the next. It's not ideal, but picking a lad who will be rehabbing for at least the first 3 games of a 7 game tournament is insane. I know Chilwell was second choice and was injured too, but you go to your third choice, you don't take a fucked first choice. You do mad shit like this with a Messi or a Ronaldo, where the psychological impact of not taking them is worse than them being there injured. You don't do it with a Luke Shaw.

Already quite a few Scots down here in Stuttgart, might join the on Sunday for a couple of pints discussing how to keep Southgate in charge of England,

You lot are really strange. Looking at it from far away you always think that with the personal to your disposal you should be up for it and do well. The reality is that despite the players you never employ someone who is able to use players and tactics to get the most out of it. I feared that Kevin would do it but bar Sir Robby and Hoddle you hardly ever used players and tactics correctly. You are really void of passion, you only do sometimes raise your game against us, but that’s it. Apart from always having players playing in positions that do not suit them the whole mentally and style is often just rubbish, I do like it , though.

I blame the media, you barely see the greens or any other 'minor' party but farage has a season ticket on QT and all the rest.

Good old Led by Donkeys. Nailed it as usual.

Podcasting quit him.

If a head is cut off, two more shall take its place.

No one’s going to buy it anyway- the first 300 pages are given over to dedications to his kids.

Real, poor Kunt. In a surprising twist, she has announced her engagement to recently divorced, pizza-face DJ Simon Mayo. “ I’m so pleased I won’t have to hear any more jokes about my name”

Seaburn

is that a clip of Temuri Ketsbaia in a geordie nightclub?

For Arnold - this is the only change he'll make and it'll be the same turgid performance.

Can't believe you were his only subscriber.

It is fucking bizarre how bad this lot are. Reminds me of the Producers. Can someone do a knock up of the Producers posters with Sunak and say Gove's face superimposed? Can't believe this hasn't been done. I mean I would with my fantastic photoshop skills, but I'm too busy.

This is exactly what I think Southgate does.

Thing is, qualification is relatively easy these days so you can do that a bit in those matches too. Instead of just playing Kane, for example, to bolster his goal record. And I’m not singling out Kane. I’ve only seen the highlight plus thought the criticism in the previous match was a bit OTT. But you get the point

Sunak refusing to deny that there aren't more people involved in this betting scandal. Tim Montgomerie reckons there's "another half a dozen" involved and Iain Dale says there are rumours of a cabinet minister. Sunak remains "incredibly angry" about it all. So angry, in fact, that he's actually been frozen into complete inaction and has yet to suspend anyone from the party. That is like super angry.

Wibble.

I don't understand your point? He's tailor made for them!

Reygis Luh Breeyuz? Been an MLF since boyhood, marra. ( On the wiki page for his hometown, pop. 8,500+- , there’s 4 “personalities” listed.… … have a guess who isn’t ).

Didn’t watch the game but the TAA situation is so strange because Mainoo, Gallagher and Wharton are all better options there. But the most obvious solution to me would be to play the lad who’s just had a fantastic season with the best club side in the world alongside Rice. This would allow Foden to play more centrally too. I know he plays as a nominal LW for his club but he takes up lots of no 10 positions. You can then play Gordon, and him and Saka running in behind means that suits Kane’s tendency to drop deep because those two can utilise their pace in the gaps that would create. It’s all a bit moot as I don’t see any hint Southgate’s going to do it. He’s lost the plot imo. Bit of a sad end to things if we go out in the last 16 / quarter as he’s a likeable lad. But looking at his post match interview, he looked like he didn’t even believe the shite he was coming out with

Just heard lots of post match comments from the England players and the manager on 5live…..they’ve all identified what’s going wrong and they all seem to agree with what Shearer and Lineker were saying too (although the singling out of Kane was both bizarre and fuckin unfair I thought) about the pedestrian nature of play, the confused nature of how the press is being deployed and the poor use of the ball in general. It all points to them being woefully under prepared and frankly confused. The Calvin Phillips comment from Southgate was bullshit desperation from someone apparently clearly out of his depth. Which tbf is a distinct change from all the preceding tournaments where Southgate has been manager where the players have plainly bought into what was being asked of them . This with a remaining core of the team from Southgate’s first success in reaching World Cup semi in 2018 ie Kane, Walker, Tripps, Pickford (and if he was fit McGuire) When you think about it it’s fuckin bizarre

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I mean, I know we all know he's full of shit, but Lincoln's Inn is an Inn of court which is for barristers. So the only reason he would be meeting a lawyer there would be for his criminal defence. Which I guess is possible come to think of it.

Just seen something saying Gareth Southgate would put his phone on low battery mode at 99%.

Palmer and Gordon, two of the form players of last season and can't even get on as subs for fucking chiclet teeth.

It is a poll endorsed by you. That‘s enough to kill off my little hopes in common sense.

It's back on!! Gerrin!!

You just wait until they sell their best players! all that dough they could buy 2, maybe 3 top class chocolate bars. I'm not talking about the cheap shit either. I'm talking Lindt, Tony's or Montezuma!