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I suspect Jamie Grines remains captain whilst Cookie's manager and Jamie's a starter.

Completely disagree.

Keegan was all about attack and had no defensive nouse.

Venables brought us into the arena, Gazza was unplayable, and we were a whisker away from getting to the final and winning in ?96. We made an excellent Dutch team look like Weymouth.

Hoddle was brilliant and let us play with flair and freedom. We were robbed against Argentina and I think would have won it. If it wasn't for him talking sh?t about disabled people, he'd have brought us a title.

Sven gave Rooney free reign, and we were more than capable of winning Euro 2004, and if wasn't for spunkys awful positioning, we'd have beaten Brazil and probably won in 2002. Then Rooney's sending off in 2006, did us again.

And, it might have been a friendly (never is) but, our demolition of Germany, on their patch, was one of the best performances of all time....no meddling.

None of these managers played with some kind of shackles or meddling from above. We've been seriously unlucky.

Despite the conveyor belt of talent, Southgate has been one of the most negative managers we've ever had. Look at the goals we've scored under Southgate.... within five secs, can anyone name a spectacular goal? I can't. Yet, you can with all those previous managers. That's Southgate shackling the players; it's not coming from above.

I'm not Southgate fan, but he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, for yrs folk ( probs even some of those moaning on here) have been calling for the england squad to be in form players rather than the tried and trusted favourites from tournaments passed, so when he does pick the inform players, he gets pelters again.
Eze looks a great player, very direct, as does Gordon, guehi had a steady game, and they played the ball well, we came up against these tactics ourselves many times over the last 6yrs, and we didn't always break them down either, the result was irrelevant as was the game, the real thing starts next Sunday ( for us) and then we'll have a real idea how things are gunna go...

Top tip jude Bellingham player of the tournament. 👍

Flicked between England and this cringe-fest.

Equally demoralising.

As said Farage did his usual demagoguery. Division...hypocrisy...victimhood...and of course he's the only one 'brave enough to say it as it is'.

Or as the moral majority call it, 'peddle bigotry'.

But the scariest thing of all is we have a front line politician now advocating US style health insurance. The bigger your wallet, the better your chances. And if you can't afford the gold star standard? Well, best of British.

Daftest part is it's the very demographic needing the NHS most largely supporting him.

Then the Tory tactic is clearly just to shout out lies, then shout down challenge. Thought the usually excellent Mishal Hussein was weak in allowing it, too.

Angie Raynor was like a kid on best behaviour, though. I got the impression she really wanted to fire back but tried to adopt the adage about being dragged down to others levels. Meaning she ended up neither here nor there.

Daftest part is Farage is the best ally Labour have. Other than the utterly incompetent Sunak himself, of course. They'll win seat after seat after seat simply because he'll split the anti immigrant vote.

The irony is beyond hilarious...