| Regret to inform you all on 15:01 - Jun 25 with 1853 views | J2BLUE |
Knighted? What the fook? |  |
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| Regret to inform you all on 15:13 - Jun 25 with 1742 views | positivity |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:01 - Jun 25 by J2BLUE |
Knighted? What the fook? |
every england manager who's made it to a final has been knighted, and a couple who haven't, so not that surprising! |  |
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| Regret to inform you all on 15:14 - Jun 25 with 1739 views | bsw72 |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:01 - Jun 25 by J2BLUE |
Knighted? What the fook? |
Now, you'll need to sit down for this.
The Beatles have split up, and Queen Victoria is dead.
Don't even ask about Queen Elizabeth II. |  | | |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:16 - Jun 25 with 1693 views | J2BLUE |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:14 - Jun 25 by bsw72 |
Now, you'll need to sit down for this.
The Beatles have split up, and Queen Victoria is dead.
Don't even ask about Queen Elizabeth II. |
I may well have heard this before today and just completely forgotten. | |
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| Regret to inform you all on 15:25 - Jun 25 with 1619 views | GavTWTD |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:14 - Jun 25 by bsw72 |
Now, you'll need to sit down for this.
The Beatles have split up, and Queen Victoria is dead.
Don't even ask about Queen Elizabeth II. |
Floating hotel in Dubai apparently. https://www.qe2.com/ |  |
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| Regret to inform you all on 15:30 - Jun 25 with 1584 views | bsw72 |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:13 - Jun 25 by positivity |
every england manager who's made it to a final has been knighted, and a couple who haven't, so not that surprising! |
I was going through the list in my head for England Managers who have been knighted.
I have:
Walter Winterbottom
Alf Ramsey
Bobby Robson
Gareth Southgate
Think that's it - although obviously there's time for Big Sam and his 100% win record :-) | | | |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:34 - Jun 25 with 1542 views | Deano69 |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:14 - Jun 25 by bsw72 |
Now, you'll need to sit down for this.
The Beatles have split up, and Queen Victoria is dead.
Don't even ask about Queen Elizabeth II. |
How's Elvis doing in the pop charts these days? |  |
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| Regret to inform you all on 15:54 - Jun 25 with 1405 views | bsw72 |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:34 - Jun 25 by Deano69 |
How's Elvis doing in the pop charts these days? |
He's all shook up on he news that Southgate got knghted, obviously. | | | |
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| Regret to inform you all on 16:22 - Jun 25 with 1305 views | flykickingbybgunn |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:34 - Jun 25 by Deano69 |
How's Elvis doing in the pop charts these days? |
Dunno. But I saw him down the chip shop.
New potatoes see. |  | | |
| Regret to inform you all on 17:51 - Jun 25 with 1120 views | RIPbobby |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:30 - Jun 25 by bsw72 |
I was going through the list in my head for England Managers who have been knighted.
I have:
Walter Winterbottom
Alf Ramsey
Bobby Robson
Gareth Southgate
Think that's it - although obviously there's time for Big Sam and his 100% win record :-) |
Why is he called big Sam? 6 2 is not that big? |  | | |
| Regret to inform you all on 17:56 - Jun 25 with 1088 views | vapour_trail |
| Regret to inform you all on 17:51 - Jun 25 by RIPbobby |
Why is he called big Sam? 6 2 is not that big? |
Because he drinks pints of wine! |  |
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| Regret to inform you all on 18:50 - Jun 25 with 956 views | Oldsmoker |
The author of this article isn't that impressed.
"But the former Middlesbrough manager, who received his knighthood on Wednesday for services to English football, says he does not miss being in charge of the team"
I think 'Middlesborough' should have been 'England'.
However, I'm sure he doesn't miss being in charge of Middlesborough either. |  |
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| Regret to inform you all on 19:01 - Jun 25 with 905 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Regret to inform you all on 17:56 - Jun 25 by vapour_trail |
Because he drinks pints of wine! |
A pint? |  |
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| Regret to inform you all on 19:33 - Jun 25 with 836 views | Deano69 |
| Regret to inform you all on 18:50 - Jun 25 by Oldsmoker |
The author of this article isn't that impressed.
"But the former Middlesbrough manager, who received his knighthood on Wednesday for services to English football, says he does not miss being in charge of the team"
I think 'Middlesborough' should have been 'England'.
However, I'm sure he doesn't miss being in charge of Middlesborough either. |
Good old AI | |
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| Regret to inform you all on 20:09 - Jun 25 with 731 views | stonojnr |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:13 - Jun 25 by positivity |
every england manager who's made it to a final has been knighted, and a couple who haven't, so not that surprising! |
must have missed Sir Terry Venables | | | |
| Regret to inform you all on 22:35 - Jun 25 with 488 views | tetchris |
| Regret to inform you all on 15:01 - Jun 25 by J2BLUE |
Knighted? What the fook? |
I don’t miss Southgate as England manager tbh. Best squad of players since 1966 and can’t even win a goldfish at the fair | | | |
| Regret to inform you all on 08:13 - Jun 26 with 231 views | Herbivore |
| Regret to inform you all on 22:35 - Jun 25 by tetchris |
I don’t miss Southgate as England manager tbh. Best squad of players since 1966 and can’t even win a goldfish at the fair |
He took us to two Euro finals and a World Cup semi and quarter. That's good going however you slice it up, even if the football was rather pragmatic. I'm not sure it's unequivocally the best squad we've had since '66 either. We've had no world class centre backs under Southgate and only one world class central midfielder, and he wasn't world class in 2021 when we made the final of the Euros.
People scoff at the 'golden generation' of the 00s but we had the likes of Ferdinand, Terry, Ashley Cole, Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes, Owen, Rooney - that was a seriously talented crop of players but no manager ever properly got a tune out of them and aside from one Euro semi, we really underperformed. For me, we had more genuinely world class players in that era than now.
People also forget the context around Southgate's tenure. When he took over, the nation was more or less done with international football. I'd go so far as saying public opinion sat somewhere between malaise and outright hatred. Years and years of disappointment, a perception that the players didn't care, he inherited a shambles. He managed to make people care about England again, which was no mean feat. He also did it with class and dignity, with the squad mirroring his approach of showing a bit of humility and not being afraid to speak up for what they feel is right. No mean feat in the modern game.
His successor isn't exactly doing a great job thus far with the same group of players either. |  |
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| Regret to inform you all on 09:23 - Jun 26 with 162 views | ford6600 |
Sir Gareth 'Handbrake' Southgate knows how to lose superbly, because to lose does not involve an effort of the imagination; it demands a lack of imagination... | | | |
| Regret to inform you all on 09:50 - Jun 26 with 114 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Regret to inform you all on 08:13 - Jun 26 by Herbivore |
He took us to two Euro finals and a World Cup semi and quarter. That's good going however you slice it up, even if the football was rather pragmatic. I'm not sure it's unequivocally the best squad we've had since '66 either. We've had no world class centre backs under Southgate and only one world class central midfielder, and he wasn't world class in 2021 when we made the final of the Euros.
People scoff at the 'golden generation' of the 00s but we had the likes of Ferdinand, Terry, Ashley Cole, Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes, Owen, Rooney - that was a seriously talented crop of players but no manager ever properly got a tune out of them and aside from one Euro semi, we really underperformed. For me, we had more genuinely world class players in that era than now.
People also forget the context around Southgate's tenure. When he took over, the nation was more or less done with international football. I'd go so far as saying public opinion sat somewhere between malaise and outright hatred. Years and years of disappointment, a perception that the players didn't care, he inherited a shambles. He managed to make people care about England again, which was no mean feat. He also did it with class and dignity, with the squad mirroring his approach of showing a bit of humility and not being afraid to speak up for what they feel is right. No mean feat in the modern game.
His successor isn't exactly doing a great job thus far with the same group of players either. |
There's a lot of people who still haven't got over the fact that sometimes in football the other side try quite hard to win too, and sometimes manage it, which is obviously Southgate's fault. Maybe he encouraged them, or something?
And then there are all those people who are still cross that he let some black players take penalties. | | | |
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