Simon Jordan CRITIQUES Gareth Southgate For OVERHYPING England's 'AVERAGE' Opponents... 👀👎🔥

It's not just Southgate though is it, the English media, commentators & pundits are just as bad - the way Shearer, Ferdinand, Lineker et al were hyping the team after winning on penalties despite the fact that Switzerland were much the better team over the 120 minutes and had the better chances especially in extra time (which everyone seems to be conveniently ignoring).

If Southgate was Man City’s manager, they would have 0 FFP charges

Simon is right. we've scruffed through. we won't play well ALL the time, but then winning and scraping through isn't sustainable.

"How many watershed moments do you lot need?". My thoughts exactly.

Its got shades Italia 90 - we stuttered, stumbled and lucked our way through to the semis, finally put in a good performance and got beaten..

Gareth Southgate £5m per. year what a joke .....average. and boring every fan is totally frustrated in Englands performance

The gumption to criticize Germany when England havent faced the same opposition is staggering. They lost to a Spain team on fire that would have battered England in 90mins. That was the real final and although Spain might run out of steam by the end having given so much to beat Germany, at that stage of the competition, they would have beaten any opponent, so it aint no shame to lose on extra-time like this and no indictment on Germany to be eliminated by spaniards. They beat the Danes that dominated your lot and drew against the same Switzetland that England needed penalties against while Germany didnt have 120 mins against them. England are in the last 4 by luck of the draw, not merit. The comparaison with France is ridiculous, because what they're doing by going through against Austria, Netherlands, Belgium & Portugal despite underperforming is what England have done against Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Switzerland, its not comparable. Netherlands is actually the first team on the same level and Southgate has never beaten that type of opposition in knockout tournaments, so we'll who "flatters to decieve" at the end...

To me this shows what a skewed view of football these media guys have. The Swiss are actually a very good team, the issue is that the media has overhyped England’s players when in reality they are only so good for their clubs because they play along side better players from other countries.

Linekar loves to hype them up. Hes part of the problem

The dismissing of the Dutch is a bit ridiculous. They are ranked in the top 10, have won 7 of their last 10, score plenty of goals, and are one of the big teams. It's exactly the sort of opponent Southgate has historically come short against. These guys are acting like they're another Switzerland or something.

Come on🤣🤣all week the Swiss were ‘dark horses’ and ‘one of the best in the tournament so far’ until England beat them that is, then it’s back to being ‘a team we should always defeat’ when we actually put a shift in and an improved performance. The media love moving the goalposts to suit 😂😂

How are the Swiss average? They were on a crazy unbeaten streak prior to the Euros and Germany only drew with them on the last minute. Where are these great teams in the Euros im still waiting to see one.

Clueless is his middle name. It's Gareth Clueless Southgate. Even Ted Lasso can do a better job than him. No tactical IQ, just pure luck and relying on players' brilliance. Absolute mental!!

Easiest thing to do in football is to avoid losing. To do that you just have to stop the other team from scoring. That is where Southgates tactics starts from and effectively end. Its the way greece did it years ago. Its risk free football taken to the nth degree. France do the same. If you see deschamps and southgate celebrate its with relief rather than with joy.

How entitled do you have to be to think you can’t have any criticism. These current players haven’t been told no in their lives.

I think the problem is that people in England still don't want to accept how lucky they were not to lose against Slovakia.

Southgate thinking he can be even more defensive and win it on penalties is going to be painful to watch

Not a southgate fan, but to be fair, I've been a little shocked at the strength of some of these lesser teams at this tournament. Not only were some of them giving it a real go, they were also excellent defensively and very disciplined. This has obviously made it difficult for teams like England. We aren't the only big nation that has struggled. Those teams we had aren't world class, but we all knew they'd be difficult to play against and there was a chance these games would be boring affairs that we just needed to win.

Seems criminal that England teams since the 90s have played way way better than this team and gone out to better opposition.

We’re playing terrible and Southgate tactics are bad but when he comes up against the top 10 team he all get found out