England Fall Short Once Again | EURO 2024

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Sick of people saying, "You can't drop your captain." Where has that loyalty got us? Similar to when Lucas Moura dragged Spurs into a Champions League final, just to be dropped for Harry Kane. It's like the answers are right there, but Southgate just can't see them. To get the best out of Kane, he needed to play Gordon.

And that's another reason Shearer isn't a manager. Repeatedly saying you can't drop Kane because of his past, is exactly what holds you back in the present.

I imagine Gordon, like Ben White before him, is wondering why he compromised his summer to sit on a bench for four weeks listening to Gareth talk about “the bigger picture”.

The fact that even Southgate himself said after the game that they couldn’t get Kane up to fitness or match speed, yet he still started every game says everything. If your striker isn’t match fit, don’t start him.

The silver lining of England losing is that hopefully it proves once and for all that the idea you can't win a tournament by playing attractive attacking football is BS. Look at Spain. Southgate had the players to play a similar style, and instead set us up to play like Stoke for the entire tournament

Why was Kane on for most of the final when he playing so poorly yet again and Watkins and Toney are just sitting on the bench? Ridiculous.

As a Scotland fan, you’ve got a team full of world class players being hindered by a bad system and bad tactics. Palmer was one of your best players and he barely played 2 hours of football across 7 games. Ivan Toney always looked like a threat when he came on aswell, but Southgate just stuck with Kane and Foden who were poor the whole tournament. With the squad you’ve got theres no reason you cant breeze past teams like Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. With a better manager you could win everything.

Sorry Alan. A manager with courage drops Kane coz he affected the team negatively more than any other player.

Southgate finding formations that routinely nullify all his best players is a special talent. Surely it's time for a change.

"Spain had 70% possession in the first half" Yeah because Jordan Pickford kept hoofing the ball upfield to them, I honestly don't understand why pundits aren't mentioning it, 9 accurate long balls out of 25 attempted by Jordan Pickford in the whole match. How do you expect to keep possession when your goalkeeper has lost his rag and keeps hoofing the ball upfield like it's the 90's and giving it to the opposition? This isn't anything new either in the Euro 2020/21 Final against Italy Jordan Pickford had 11 accurate long balls out of 24 attempted, It's just not good enough, It's old fashioned tactics from a bygone era and no pundit is mentioning it.

You have to admit the ‘best team’ won the tournament, providing great entertainment along the way, congratulations to Spain 🎉🎉🎉🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

I am german and this series of podcasts was the best reporting around the Euro for me. Loved the relaxed banter and analysis. I don't know why german television is not capable to produce at a same level as you guys. Kudos!

Spain showed us how to play. Can’t just sit back, ride your luck and hope for moments. Will come unstuck against top opposition.

As soon as I seen harry play I knew it was over I was watching it with a 100 people to see the pain in the room was 😢

Tactically inept. In this tournament he's been forced to bring in players like Palmer, Watkins and Toney late on and they've all done well and put us on the front foot and every time he's put them back on the bench for the next game. He can't even see what's staring him right in the face. It's an absolute tragedy that we had one of the strongest squads of attack minded players in the tournament and we've a manager that sets us up and plays so defence minded. He's totally clueless and if it wasn't for the Father Christmas loves England draw and three pieces of individual magic in games, then we'd have have got nowhere near that final or the last. Under Southgate we've played a team ranked in the top ten teams in the world 26 times, we've won 5 of those matches. Those stats are the ones that truly matter and show just how strong we've become as a world footballing force under Southgate's managership. On top of everything else, watching England is like watching paint dry.

I think with Kane England has to look at how Germany handled Miroslav Klose, their record goal scorer, towards the end of his Germany career. He was still in the squad for their 2014 WC win, but not starting every game, and his impact was still significant.

Southgate is wasting all of England's attacking talent by putting them into his defensive straightjacket

Thank you Gary, Alan and Micha and of course everyone behind the scenes. I am not a number 1 English Fan internationally, it's Italy for me but I am a Liverpool supporter. I do really enjoy every episode! As Micha would say "you've gots the energy!!" WOW! Thank you for the Euros and every other episode! Enjoy your rest and I will hear you again when the EPL Starts! A South African fan of TRIF! Thank you.