[St Charles Owl]

As for the media and fans sugar coating the English performance's. Using statistics to paint a warped picture of reality.
Southgate may have guided England to just as many tournament finals or semi's as the last 20 manager's but the reality is that elite tier nations are not the Gods they used to be.
90's Brazil team would absolutely decimate this 2022 Brazil team and the same can be said of many nations.
The gulf in class isn't the same between minor and major nations these recent tournaments are starting to show this.

So, to come back to Southgate. This is why he shouldn't be allowed to carry on.
The squad of players available (As Gareth left players like Ivan Toney out as he'd only been in fire for his Club all season FFS) Were ample to perform far better than they have been under this rat faced fools stifling tactics and continued ineptitude.
The tournament's he has progressed in, should be the bare minimum considering the quality of opposition. Even then, he's completely failed to seize opportunity.
The bewildered substitutions continue with this man. Saka for Sterling? Why? Why would the guy dealing with 'mental' issues just walk back in to the squad ahead of anyone else?

There's a reason teams like Croatia are consistently in the semis or finals.
The players and the management are a cohesive working unit.
Unfortunately, like the Dutch, the English.
The Croatians are going to get a dose of dodgy match fixing as FIFA want Messi and Argentina through.

Based on this logic, Southgate should be given the job for life!! You completely contradict yourself. We are an elite tier nation and always have been, yet according to what you say these nations are not as good now, but when we were that good we still got nowhere under previous managers. Southgate by your admission has steered England to more finals, semis and quarters than all these other managers in a time when you say "The gulf in class isn't the same between minor and major nations these recent tournaments are starting to show this."

I think this England team is unified for once, remember all the Man Utd v Liverpool crap in previous squads? The best thing Southgate has done is to get everyone in the set up on the same page. It might not be a page we like but we are in a far better place as a squad. I haven't seen Southgate or any player say they are happy with where they got to in any of the competitions he has managed, they have all been disappointed and wished they could have gone further. Lets not mistake the crap we hear from the media and the pundits as confirmation of what Southgate thinks!!

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Eddie Howe has to be the next manager surely and let Newcastle get tuchie or whatever he's called !

Why on earth would Howe leave Newcastle?? He is on the verge of being given the freedom of the city (and Saudi Arabia as well)!!! Southgate gets death threats through the mail to his home address as well as his office one, mail his family sees. He gets so much abuse for leaving out this player or playing that one and even gets abuse when the players are the ones who screw it up. Why would Howe put himself in this position? As a fan base we are seriously in need of a reality check as to what is right and wrong and sending death threats to his family is part of that decline. What happened to supporters in the last 20 years, we have always been critics and sofa managers but so many now take it to hatred??