Damn, John Barnes has a serious coach’s mind. I nominate him for next England coach!

John Barnes is the only man that's come on this station and said, "I don't think we're better than anyone else." Given people a reality check cos if they were they would've won yesterday

That’s the best break down of Englands problems I have ever heard, spot on. 👌

The amount of sense that was made in this commentary by Mr. Barnes, England still will never do it. Continue picking the best players and continue singing it’s coming home 😂

So refreshing to hear someone on Talksport speak with intelligence, understanding and common sense. John absolutely nailed it.

Why is he not on more often? He was a brilliant player and now he explains football so well.

Barnes broke that down effortlessly

damn, Mr Barnes is cooking, I had to repeat this segment all over again

That moment near the end where we had a throw in and Walker threw it back 40 yards to Stones, instead of throwing it into the box, where Watkins and co were waiting, said it all to me.

Solid analysis from Barnes. Real common sense and just a proper football brain

I’ve watched a lot of videos/clips on Englands loss and John Barnes by far hits the nail on its head. 💯 spot on.

The point John makes about Declan having to take a bit more time to find his pass as the players are rotating everywhere was spot on.

Rodri is 💯 a clutch player come on now

John Barnes was a great player and he knows his stuff. Makes so much sense. Not personal attacks on people but how to improve - legend!

The best Analysis made by an Englishman so far 👌

Barnes is 100% correct. Walker was absolutely fine out there and made the team of the tournament at RB for the 2nd time running so well done for that. We would look significantly weaker defensively without him.

john barnes has been absolutely bang on since the final breaking it down... what he said about the 6 and the 8 the other day, declan rice and now tonight

John Barnes talks a lot of sense. Now I understand why he was a baller for Liverpool but was consistently MIA for his national team. It’s all about the system 🙏

Cafu on Dani Carvajal: "I have been saying for a long time that he is one of the best in the world. He’s a full-back who goes forward, a full-back who crosses, a full-back who marks, a full-back who scores goals and likes it." Did bro just really say cavayal don't come forward when he has some of the greatest assist in world football and in realmadrid

Barnes is spot on, defense always shifts over and leave the switch relatively unmarked and then shuffle back over IF they switch it and they did but Walker gave himself too much to do or was uncharacteristically slow to get out to cucarella, the literal fact the cross came in, means he misjudged the needing to leave no gaps in the center vs marking Cucarella. He looked tired, should have been rested more in the games leading up, lack of rotation and resting of him has cost him, should have been able to get out the groups and easy KO run without having to tax the first teamers and sap their tanks.

A bit misleading from JB. Spain encourage a lot of rotation. There were too many times that Williams appeared on the right next to yamall.. it was that movement that bamboozled walker and created a void for cucurella to attack. The players need to be less static

John barnes so intelligent

So Walker gets free pass, but Trent is real problem.

Barnes talked a lot of sense - have him on more!

Walker throwing the ball back to defence was criminal

Southgate Tactics. - Score 1 and not concede. - If opponents score, make subs and hope - Play 3 no. 10 and no ST. Why is Kane, Foden and Bellingham all looking for the ball in the same position?

Not only do we pick the 'best players' but we play them out of position to.

Walker went walkabout for their second goal

Unfortunately the point about Spain picking players from lower teams is because Real Madrid have 1 Spanish player in their starting eleven (Carvajal) and Barcelona have 2 Spanish players in their starting eleven (Pedri and Yamal). So they have no choice, nothing to do with style even though I like the point. The fact Cundy and the other bloke dont pick up that fact is exactly why English fans think they have the best players....they don't know football outside their own back yard

Barnes raps knowledge with top tier eloquence- top fella!

Barnes talks more sense then anyone else i have heard talk about england

John Barnes is awesome.

I can listen to John all day .. he talks sense and is 100% true .. hes the best analyser on talk sport its s shame we dont see much more of him

Rodri not a match winner... didn't he score the 1 goal to finally win City and champions league title. He's also got city the winning goal many times to keep them in a title race.

Barnes has so much knowledge why hasn't the geezer managed on a descent level, actions speak louder than words.

Finally, a former footballer with a coach's foresight! For decades, other winning nations teams played like one of their club sides, creating effective systems, but not England. The next England manager that the FA wants is a 'Yes Man', just like SAFEgate was. Is Eddie Howe, who the best English manager, that type of man? I know it's been a long time since '66, but the fans should never expect success, but patiently hope for it!

John Barnes just shared some of the best, insightful analysis I've heard since the Euros kicked off!

hats off to John Barnes!!

Again the shirt is 'heavy' 😂 we didn't have a go...and still lost 😂🎉

This guy is talking facts and he really understood exactly what was wrong.

Absolutely bang on

Common sense always prevails big up the legend John Barnes.🌹✔️😎👊🏾

Good analysis Edit: Near perfect analysis

El problema de Southgate es que jugó a ir a los penaltis. No tenía otra táctica. Y lo de atacar, bueno, eso no sabe ni lo que es. Es un Mourinho o un Deshamps pero sin contragolpe.

John Barnes for England manager. How do you nurture team spirit? How do we get to play our way but as effective as Spain , Argentina or Colombia? Even Canada played great football in the Copa America.

Thank you JB for your brilliant analysis .

Brilliant points, this is so insightful

spot on from john aside from kyle walker, he was shocking all tournament.

Barnes spot on n what iv been trying to argue with others!

Barnes has the most insight than any other English fan/pundit.

I think England had played better than in past matches. Not by a lot, but there seemed like they were more solid overall. But I agree a lot with what Mr Barnes has said. Most of the so-called performance analysis so far seems born more out of disappointment than real analysis. Mr Barnes seems to have actually looked at things for exactly what they were and makes a lot of sense. England were within 5 minutes away from going into extra time, in the finals, against the team that beat other strong nations to get there. FourFourTwo also has a good analysis as to the tactics used by both teams.

John barns is a genius

He is the first person to talk the sense I’ve been saying. Spain won easily because they play football. England looked like man united all tournament. Turgid. England have never respected the number 6 position. They played gerrard and lampard over Carrick when you simply could have just played all three. But carrick should have been the first name on the team sheet. And they have never been able to keep the ball with intention. We have a long way to go. But these players are playing and learning from the best managers so we have a chance.

No.. we have a style. Our style is quiet distinct. This Euros showed us our Defense is solid. That should be our identity. It always have been. We just neglected it for other playstyles popularized by other countries. Our strength is that we are good at all facets, probably one of the most physical teams. John Barnes said we play all types of football. This is why.

What tournament was he watching

Great commentary

Barnes for manager of England.. Why isn't he in the conversation is the question

Excellent observations from Barnes!!!

John makes some good points here. The success of the Premier League doesn't help the England team because the reason why it sells the world over is because it has an exciting array of different styles up against each other and as John says that means when you get to England the players aren't used to the way of playing. I think it was the dutch back in the 70s where most of their teams played the same way so it was easy at international level. Closest England got was when Ron Greenwood picked an England team made up mostly of Liverpool players because of their success. I think England's biggest problem now though is that the best players if the Premier League are generally the foreign ones.

There's truth in some on Barnes's comments. A successful football team is about 11 players playing as a team, I think about Forest when they retained the European Cup, Barcelona, Man City.❤

John Barnes should be the New England coach.

10000% foden should of gone off instead of manioo

John gave some real insight

“Rodri isn’t a match-winner”

Kyle Walker was a shambles at this tournament.

JB spot on... both goals came from Saka side... yet he is not even in the the frame... his left back crossed and Saka is no where.... said all along Bowen a better option because he tracks back... Saka good going forward but he is not good tackling back.... he is an out an out right winger....NOT a midfielder as was Sterling... JB is correct Walker was superb and especially in the final.

Walker,trippier,shaw,stones are waffles.

You can tell Cundy does not agree 😂 and neither do i

We have individual quality. Not team quality. 🖐️ 🎤

Good analysis from Barnes . Tactically he speaks sense . But Walker was poor this tournament, and he was wrong when he said spain don’t have the resilience to come from behind to win, twice they came back from losing positions in the tournement

People are blaming walker as there not allowed to blame saka now but it was sakas fault

John Barnes for manager ❤

As long as the media gets involved in the squad selection and who starts for England, then England won't win anything for a long-term. Most managers also reward their players after putting the team in the final. Watkins deserved to start against Spain in the final. He can press better than Kane. Foden or Bellingham should have been benched for Gorden. Spain is better in keeping the ball, but England could have used counter attack to hurt them.

John Barnes knows what he is talking about why isn't he in the England camp sign him up now for world cup 2026.

Walker I think played well overall

3:17 You can't have a pattern of play with any old players. You NEED players who's attributes suit the patterns you want to play

I love Barnes however Kyle Walker is the weak link. He is negligent at the far post. Got exposed in the World Cup 2018 by Croatia perosic and by Williams in the final. Reece James is the best defensive right back but he is too injury prone

Foden ain’t a number 10 what chances did he create all tournament

Southgate is not in the top 15 managers in the tournament. I think most managers in the tournament would have done better out of the squad than he did.

Total sense.

We have rubbish coaches in this country. They don't know how to play technical football. All we focus on here if fitness and working hard. Footballing nations are technical and clinical.

John should change name from Barnes to Contrary, no matter what someone says, he says opposite

Walker was poor and at fault for Nico Williams' goal.

Walker was a liability for most of the tournament, 4 of the 6 goals we conceded were arguably his fault

Swear he sounds like the Tate brothers can’t unhear it🧐

The last decent tournament was Russia 2018, this England team should have dominated world football the last six years, it was their turn in the cycle, but they didnt have a manager capable of taking advantage of that fact and filling the vacuum, consequently just a few near misses in an era they should have done what Spain did earlier in the century, sadly Glenn hoddle was the last manager who played an England side worth watching.

Makes sense

for all those saying Kyle Walker is at fault John Barnes explains exactly why it’s mot a Kyle Walkers fault and Four Four Two on YTube do a breakdown of the goal and how Spain created the problems that larded to the goal

All this glazing by ex pros is embarrassing. Its a disgrace gs still has a job. Starting a past it/ unfit kane every match is criminal. Then complains sbout not having fit players. Replace kane with absolutely anyone of gordon, palmer, watkins and toney and you give yourself a chance. What a ahite manager, the whole country could see it with Kane but he was still picked.

SOUTHGATE OUT NOW

Sorry, did barnes say Rodri isnt a match winner?

Barnes KNOWS. He calked it 100%. Southgate was outcoached. Spain wasn't like the previous tikki takka side.

Other teams have pressure to and other leagues managers have pressure too. Player pressure is also on other teams. Came on

I blame Spain for the defeat. Its just not fair.

John Barnes the next England manager 🎉

Barnes really has been screwed over by the game. How he is not a twenty year vet in management is an absolute disgrace

JB walks in to the England manager

Reality is when WALKER retires England are screwed because in an attacking sense he's poor, but defensively he's the only difference in how we travel so far in recent tournaments! His MONSTER pace and recovery bails England out making last ditch blocks or locking down other nations best attackers! People talk about the goals against Spain have no idea in how passing accurately at the right time with the right tempo destroys any fast or competent defender! People forget what prime Barca was doing lol. Look at Rio and Vidic in that final lol

He literally played Foden the 10 for the last two games and he did nothing

The 10 is Maddisson.