It must be nice to qualify for tournaments. Sigh
Last night was pretty much as expected. No changes bar Shaw starting….his first game since Feb (Dafuq was he taken and not the 3rd best English actual LB. And "no" Gareth, Kieren Trippier does not count!). And would you beleieve it, England played the same brand of turgid eye gougingly dull football they played in the previous 6 gmaes. It's amazing, who would have seen it coming? Ohh yeah, any ****er who had seen them in this tournament.
Harry Kane played an hour and managed to be worse than he had been up to now. He's a great player, but he has been appalling in this tournament. He is clearly not fit. Southgate deserves stick for still playing him despite everyone being able to see he isn't fit. But Harry Kane needs to have a long hard look at himself. He must know he isn't fit and is ****ing his team. Anybody with a degree of self respect would have said "boss, I'm not fit/playing ****, we will be better off with someone else starting." Especially if you are captain. Your job is to set the tone. When you jog about and let Spain play it out from the back every time you are shafting your team.
One, or two bad games you can accept, everyone has them, but when you have had 6 in a row and look no better in number 6 than in number 1, you need to do the decent thing. Assuming the manager doesnt have the balls to drop you.
Zero chance of Klopp. He wants a break. I saw the shortlist is Potter, Howe, Pottchetino, and Tuchel. Pretty sure 3 of them would say "no thanks". Plus Tuchel is a moody ****er. That leaves Potter. You could do worse, but you could do better too.
The FA will probably give Southgate a nee contract anyway, so it's academic.
