England squad defend Gareth Southgate in what could be his final tournament | Back Pages Tonight

You gotta love how the British media builds them up and brings them down … no other county does as good as you guys

Bellingham will be virtually starting the game on a yellow card after his post-match comments on the referee being a match fixer when he was with Dortmund..

A "boost to the Dutch" will be Van Dijk NOT having to worry about Toney out-muscling him.

It's so obvious that Kane needs to play behind another striker - it's that simple Leaving him alone up top never works, especially when he drops deep

The England team are laying on the Siege mentality thing a bit thick, especially since they haven’t really performed yet….

Dont bet on it, im betting that the FA are delighted with how far England have got in the tournament and might offer him another five year contract, why would he walk away, hes on five million pounds a year also who else would offer him a management position?

What a joke a journo saying he is fed up with the narrative, it's the media driving it! Did you even watch the Rest is Football? Because they have been going through pros and cons and making good suggestions, they are former players, they know a damn sight more than a reporter looking for sales and clicks. The quote from Lineker was as usual, taken out of context.

What will happen vs Netherlands. Goal down in 30mins and we have zero shots on goal and can’t counter because Kane is to slow. Half-time no changes. 55 min 2 goals down and England 1 shot on target from Rice. 75 min Southgate makes 3 subs but Kane is not subbed, Foden is taken off after doing ten times the running of Kane. 85th min England score from OG after a Saka run and no Kane in box so he blasts it across 6 yards hits defender. 94th min Toney comes on for Kane. Fans already walked out. England going home

defend Gareth on the pitch, prove it by doing it on the playing field boys

England fans are cynical,because the older you are,the more times you have been through this.

They should defend him with their play on the field not with words

The easy way for Southgate to not drop his captain is not have Harry Kane as captain. End of. If it’s a choice between loyalty and England winning then loyalty can go to hell…..😮

These two are like Southgate .. full of charisma

The amount of waffling contradictions this guy made hurt my brain. You’re disappointed the nation isn’t getting behind the team despite reaching semi finals, but previously mentioned the teams we played weren’t that great and we didn’t even play well against them. 😂 If we went up against Spain at any point in this tournament Luck wouldn’t cut it. The nation want to get behind a team (like the Spanish is for Spain) that is absolutely playing class against top teams and winning.

After that Brazil 1970 performance by England against the Swiss, I can see England easily winning against the Dutch. What a time to be alive watching England in Euro 2024.

Ogden speaks differently on Sky to the way he does on ESPN. Wheres your hottake now ?

thats the problem with Southgate, he is a man manager, a coach, not a real manager, he works well with the players, they love him coaching them BUT he isn't picking the team right, the formation and he cannot game manage. He doesn't utilise the squad as an asset and his subs are reactive. He would be a great coach working with a good PL proven manager who would get the best out of the players.

Can these media outlets please stop using the word 'Success' and 'Southgate' in the same sentence. Trophies = Success and as of right now, after 8 years, 4 Tournaments he has a big fat ZERO. Im an England fan and its very annoying hearing this narrative that Southgate is somehow a success for literally winning nothing and sends the wrong message to the team.

As a Man U fan, I totally get the English fan perspective. All season we constantly criticise the manager and the players but somehow we at times come 2nd in the league or win a cup. You know the team can do better but the team is a moments team and they get results but in a baffling way!

If some of these pundits and journos are fed up of criticism of Southgate then they can jog on because we as fans have every right to call it how we see it. Those fans who've travelled to Germany have spent a fortune to watch utter dross from a team filled with elite players, and we have every right to be annoyed when we see players being played out of position constantly, or Kane staying on all game when he's done next to nothing, or blisteringly fast wingers like Anthony Gordon not even getting a sniff, or not having a shot on target until the 95th min against SLOVAKIA, or getting to the 75th min vs Switzerland and still no changes had been made in which there only was as soon as we went 1-0 down with only 15 mins to go showing how reactive instead of proactive Southgate's been....we have every right to be annoyed by these things! Yes we're deep into a tournament but we could've easily been knocked out by now against poor opposition too