Now will Southgate realise his starting line up doesn't work and make changes for the next match?
Shocking apart from 5 minutes where we scored twice. But hey, we're through. Hoping the siege mentality in the squad starts to bear dividends soon. Going to be interesting to see how we set up next weekend with Guehi unfortunately suspended (that ref was shit). I was also impressed with Toney. But Southgate got out of jail there in a big way. Not making substitutions in the second half was inexplicable; it worked out it the end but we shouldn't have been reliant on an absolute worldie of a goal in the 95th minute.
I am pretty impressed with the mentality that goes, "I've been s**t this entire tournament bar the first 30 minutes of the first match and this is our last chance to score, I'll have a crack at a flying volley". Lovely stuff.
I find the level of punditry and discourse in general sadly lacking when it comes to England and football. Lots of know it alls talking about who should play, and how the manager is so crap. And yet, I haven't heard a single attempt to examine why we are one of the best teams in modern times when it comes to the qualification process, but sub-par when it comes to the finals, particularly the knock out stages. Why this dichotomy?
Nothing of value to be learned there if you want insight rather than some tedious bore's opinion
I think football punditry in the UK moved towards trolling for attention when R5's 606 programme changed, a few years ago, from a relatively 'normal' post-match analysis programme into a format of curated hysterical bickering between the idiot presenters and their baited audience.It's the relentless march of the idiots.