| Rico Lewis 21:14 - Nov 20 with 6768 views | BlueNomad |
Is he really better than Leif? |  | | |  |
| Rico Lewis on 11:55 - Nov 22 with 491 views | chicoazul |
| Rico Lewis on 07:52 - Nov 21 by BlueRaider |
There is a definite big club bias, look at Kieran Richardson and Wes Brown, England regulars at United, but never really good enough, move clubs and don't get picked again |
Wes Brown was fantastic and won the CL twice. Injuries wrecked him. |  |
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| Rico Lewis on 11:56 - Nov 22 with 485 views | Herbivore |
| Rico Lewis on 11:55 - Nov 22 by chicoazul |
Wes Brown was fantastic and won the CL twice. Injuries wrecked him. |
Yeah, going in hard on Wes Brown as though he was a pub player is a weird flex. |  |
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| Rico Lewis on 12:05 - Nov 22 with 449 views | hype313 |
Leif is great, but if he was better than Lewis he would be playing for Pep and in the CL. So, yes he's clearly better.
That's not to say Leif can't go onto play at the highest level. |  |
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| Rico Lewis on 12:08 - Nov 22 with 441 views | itfcjoe |
| Rico Lewis on 11:54 - Nov 22 by ChampionsofInnsbruck |
Yet the second he pulled on the England shirt and played under Southgate he went from a young and exciting prospect to another dullard in a bad Nike PE kit with the rest of them, and immediately over hyped by our awful and unrealistic press.
We're wasting yet another generation and tournament rather than appoint a real manager. The guys been a fluke since he arrived, his selections are laughable, his tactics are almost designed to take the fun out of football and the second we ever come up against any resistance we get beat. The fact that this dreary caretaker has got us to a final when Robson didn't is a travesty, but Robson came up against better opponents earlier than Southgate did.
Oh.............. Davis for England! Give that lad a call up, he'd do just fine. |
It's not just domestic football you haven't got a scooby about then |  |
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| Rico Lewis on 12:12 - Nov 22 with 418 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Rico Lewis on 11:54 - Nov 22 by ChampionsofInnsbruck |
Yet the second he pulled on the England shirt and played under Southgate he went from a young and exciting prospect to another dullard in a bad Nike PE kit with the rest of them, and immediately over hyped by our awful and unrealistic press.
We're wasting yet another generation and tournament rather than appoint a real manager. The guys been a fluke since he arrived, his selections are laughable, his tactics are almost designed to take the fun out of football and the second we ever come up against any resistance we get beat. The fact that this dreary caretaker has got us to a final when Robson didn't is a travesty, but Robson came up against better opponents earlier than Southgate did.
Oh.............. Davis for England! Give that lad a call up, he'd do just fine. |
"The guys been a fluke since he arrived"
Was it Napoleon who said "Give me lucky Generals"?
As long as Southgate delivers good tournament results he doesn't deserve the sack. Given what he achieved, if he has a bad tournament then he deserves to be allowed to resign on his terms rather than be sacked.
We had a succession of England managers who couldn't get Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes and Beckham to play consistently well together, and the last England manager to do close to as well in a tournament as Southgate was Venables in 1996.
Southgate has brought through young players, and achieved relative success at tournaments. He is up against many teams from lower ranked countries with fitter players than in previous generations, and who are led by competent coaches and drilled in the (sometimes 10 man) low block.
If Man City won an FA Cup game against a frustrating low block League Two side 2-0 then Citeh fans would just say "Job done, no big deal". It should be the same for an England manager who gets a win in a dead rubber when the team have already qualified. |  | | |
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