What, like you? Oh. Wait.

@@nicksmith833 Considering Agbonlahor said he'd take Kane over Ronaldo in a final, then yeah of course.

100%

@@nicksmith833 ratiod

Amen to that! Andy Townsend for one

Exactly, Phil..imagine just being in a curry house listening to that over a Bhuna or something

@@joeharry6820 fact about it pal

Well said Philip

IMO England are something like 6th or seventh best in the world. The part where I disagree with almost everyone is that Gareth Southgate is not the problem. I believe the squad as a whole is not as good as people think. Interestingly I think that if all the players on England's roster (especially players like Grealish, Sancho and Foden) are at peak fitness and are playing near their best at the time of the tournament england would rise to 3rd or 4th best in the world. Sadly, nearly every tournament most of England's players are exhausted mentally/physically from an excessive domestic schedule, which is a combination of domestic tournaments and the premier league, and often players are just coming back from injuries.....think Henderson, Maguire, Grealish and Sancho this past euros. English football is not designed to help the English national team, nor is it designed to aid in the development in native English talent. Football in England primarily serves as a cash cow for International billionaires like kroenke, the glazers, the Saudi Arabian royal family etc. Why would anyone think that these detached oligarchs care about the good of England and the payers it produces. Often times I hear people say that less games or a winter break would be coddling the English players. This has nothing to do with the heart of the issue. I would not lessen the load out of a misplaced sense of false compassion for the players but instead because I would like to have a team of physically fit and sharp players like Spain seems to always have (even when they disappoint in a tournament) instead of lethargic, exhausted and half-injured players like England had at the 2010, and 2006 World Cup, and the 2016 euros. Lastly, a problem that used to affect England greatly but is less relevant now is the lack of skillful technical players in general and particularly on the wings and in central midfield. This last problem was only recently addressed by the English FA around 2012, and is only bearing fruit since the 2021 euros.

Agreed. Southgate is inept, lost both games by playing two cm's Vs 3 with the opposition

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IMO England are something like 6th or seventh best in the world. The part where I disagree with almost everyone is that Gareth Southgate is not the problem. I believe the squad as a whole is not as good as people think. Interestingly I think that if all the players on England's roster (especially players like Grealish, Sancho and Foden) are at peak fitness and are playing near their best at the time of the tournament england would rise to 3rd or 4th best in the world. Sadly, nearly every tournament most of England's players are exhausted mentally/physically from an excessive domestic schedule, which is a combination of domestic tournaments and the premier league, and often players are just coming back from injuries.....think Henderson, Maguire, Grealish and Sancho this past euros. English football is not designed to help the English national team, nor is it designed to aid in the development in native English talent. Football in England primarily serves as a cash cow for International billionaires like kroenke, the glazers, the Saudi Arabian royal family etc. Why would anyone think that these detached oligarchs care about the good of England and the payers it produces. Often times I hear people say that less games or a winter break would be coddling the English players. This has nothing to do with the heart of the issue. I would not lessen the load out of a misplaced sense of false compassion for the players but instead because I would like to have a team of physically fit and sharp players like Spain seems to always have (even when they disappoint in a tournament) instead of lethargic, exhausted and half-injured players like England had at the 2010, and 2006 World Cup, and the 2016 euros. Lastly, a problem that used to affect England greatly but is less relevant now is the lack of skillful technical players in general and particularly on the wings and in central midfield. This last problem was only recently addressed by the English FA around 2012, and is only bearing fruit since the 2021 euros.

clueless at the highest level

He needs a slap

he's after a job at the FÀ

Keown is like Southgate a yes man.

He’s right about foreign opinion of England though.

Everyone except Southgate, who only reacted after the goal went in.

@@involuntarilychad4048 and keown. Who thought that everything was going well because he assumes the team in the lead is playing the better football

IMO England are something like 6th or seventh best in the world. The part where I disagree with almost everyone is that Gareth Southgate is not the problem. I believe the squad as a whole is not as good as people think. Interestingly I think that if all the players on England's roster (especially players like Grealish, Sancho and Foden) are at peak fitness and are playing near their best at the time of the tournament england would rise to 3rd or 4th best in the world. Sadly, nearly every tournament most of England's players are exhausted mentally/physically from an excessive domestic schedule, which is a combination of domestic tournaments and the premier league, and often players are just coming back from injuries.....think Henderson, Maguire, Grealish and Sancho this past euros. English football is not designed to help the English national team, nor is it designed to aid in the development in native English talent. Football in England primarily serves as a cash cow for International billionaires like kroenke, the glazers, the Saudi Arabian royal family etc. Why would anyone think that these detached oligarchs care about the good of England and the players it produces. Often times I hear people say that less games or a winter break would be coddling the English players. This has nothing to do with the heart of the issue. I would not lessen the load out of a misplaced sense of false compassion for the players but instead because I would like to have a team of physically fit and sharp players like Spain seems to always have (even when they disappoint in a tournament) instead of lethargic, exhausted and half-injured players like England had at the 2010, and 2006 World Cup, and the 2016 euros. Lastly, a problem that used to affect England greatly but is less relevant now is the lack of skillful technical players in general and particularly on the wings and in central midfield. This last problem was only recently addressed by the English FA around 2012, and is only bearing fruit since the 2021 euros.

I said it during and after the game mate!! Finally someone had the metal to call it out. Did not unleash Grealish soon enough also

@@denethorofgondor4567 a lot of excuses and misconceptions to what England football is all about. It’s the foreign influence that powers English football. Without it English football sucks. I think that goes without saying. English players exhausted? It’s not just them though is it? Our top teams consist of a bunch of foreign players (who are also exhausted) along with only a few English players who play for England. Reality is and always has been… England are not good enough because English players are not that great. Hopefully one day they will be, but they aren’t and haven’t been for decades. We have had some really good talent and we continue to have good talent. Other nations are just superior. That’s how it usually goes down.

or you can just realize you don't have solid enough CBs to play an attacking system hence you need to protect the goal. Knockout tournaments are most often won by non-attractive teams. Look at Chelsea!

In 2018, he had Alli, Lingard, Loftus Cheek, Lallana, Henderson, Pickford, Rose, Delph, Dier, Maguire...an absolute BOTTOM half PL team except Harry Kane+Sterling.

I agree. Not good enough.

@@palashrawat401 White over Maguire. Ramsdale over Pickford.

Tbh most of the comments like usual are agreeing with Simon 👍🏻

IMO England are something like 6th or seventh best in the world. The part where I disagree with almost everyone is that Gareth Southgate is not the problem. I believe the squad as a whole is not as good as people think. Interestingly I think that if all the players on England's roster (especially players like Grealish, Sancho and Foden) are at peak fitness and are playing near their best at the time of the tournament england would rise to 3rd or 4th best in the world. Sadly, nearly every tournament most of England's players are exhausted mentally/physically from an excessive domestic schedule, which is a combination of domestic tournaments and the premier league, and often players are just coming back from injuries.....think Henderson, Maguire, Grealish and Sancho this past euros. English football is not designed to help the English national team, nor is it designed to aid in the development in native English talent. Football in England primarily serves as a cash cow for International billionaires like kroenke, the glazers, the Saudi Arabian royal family etc. Why would anyone think that these detached oligarchs care about the good of England and the payers it produces. Often times I hear people say that less games or a winter break would be coddling the English players. This has nothing to do with the heart of the issue. I would not lessen the load out of a misplaced sense of false compassion for the players but instead because I would like to have a team of physically fit and sharp players like Spain seems to always have (even when they disappoint in a tournament) instead of lethargic, exhausted and half-injured players like England had at the 2010, and 2006 World Cup, and the 2016 euros. Lastly, a problem that used to affect England greatly but is less relevant now is the lack of skillful technical players in general and particularly on the wings and in central midfield. This last problem was only recently addressed by the English FA around 2012, and is only bearing fruit since the 2021 euros.

What? Most of us are realistic most of us support what he's saying about Southgate 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Do you see us disagreeing with him? No… In fact we agree with him and sing his praises for highlighting Southgate’s and England’s issues and failures and the problems behind them.

We love Simon he ain’t gonna sugarcoat what’s happening like 95% of the rest of the media.

Dose of reality? We agree with him you muppet. Southgate is awful

IMO England are something like 6th or seventh best in the world. The part where I disagree with almost everyone is that Gareth Southgate is not the problem. I believe the squad as a whole is not as good as people think. Interestingly I think that if all the players on England's roster (especially players like Grealish, Sancho and Foden) are at peak fitness and are playing near their best at the time of the tournament england would rise to 3rd or 4th best in the world. Sadly, nearly every tournament most of England's players are exhausted mentally/physically from an excessive domestic schedule, which is a combination of domestic tournaments and the premier league, and often players are just coming back from injuries.....think Henderson, Maguire, Grealish and Sancho this past euros. English football is not designed to help the English national team, nor is it designed to aid in the development in native English talent. Football in England primarily serves as a cash cow for International billionaires like kroenke, the glazers, the Saudi Arabian royal family etc. Why would anyone think that these detached oligarchs care about the good of England and the payers it produces. Often times I hear people say that less games or a winter break would be coddling the English players. This has nothing to do with the heart of the issue. I would not lessen the load out of a misplaced sense of false compassion for the players but instead because I would like to have a team of physically fit and sharp players like Spain seems to always have (even when they disappoint in a tournament) instead of lethargic, exhausted and half-injured players like England had at the 2010, and 2006 World Cup, and the 2016 euros. Lastly, a problem that used to affect England greatly but is less relevant now is the lack of skillful technical players in general and particularly on the wings and in central midfield. This last problem was only recently addressed by the English FA around 2012, and is only bearing fruit since the 2021 euros.

I think that playing catenaccio against Italy was one of the worst tactics I've ever seen. Especially as Italy was not playing catenaccio but attacking consistently, with England all in defense. That Italy was the worst I've seen in my life, in terms of talent, but they were a group. England was one of the best England sides, I lived in London for 16 years, but the tactics were counter productive and they were waiting for time to pass. It was just a matter of time before we scored, and honestly it shoudln't even gone to penalties. But it did, and in the end it was fine margins that made us win it. With a better and more positive attitude, England should have won it. Good luck for the WC, with a better attitude, England has good chances, and depending on the draw, can make a statement.

@@Robsville that’s a gratuitous and sportsman like response 👍. For me Italy deserved to win the Euros as they played some great free flowing football… can’t believe they’ve not qualified for the World Cup

Ha ha ha lucky!!!! You and the guys sound like experts 😂😂😂

@@dominicmurphy6856 thanks…. What’s your view?

@@spendover My pleasure, I called England home for many years and I have a lot of friends there, so I know how important is to win in football there too. Italy is out to WC after losing one game in 3 years...well, we need more goal scorers, that's it. It is not a top squad, and maybe if we played the old way of defending and counter attack maybe we would have won, but it's the right way forward and maybe this will shake players to concentrate on other skills. In the end football has cycles, many nations didn't qualify before (England and France in the 90s for example) and now are top level, so the only way is up, I hope. As we say in Italy "There isn't 2 without 3, so...let's hope on the next WC) ;)

I remember that video a fan called up criticising Safegate and Candy got angry and slapped the mic lol

@@pizzagateisreal yeah haha they made me soo mad defending Southgates tactics

Bang on, man!

@@Dannye70 they were genuine criticisms too

Him and Trevor are neck and neck for that honour. Both wrong at literally any debate.

@@samwize28 😂😂 you ain’t wrong my friend

Keowns gushing praise for Italy has proved to be nonsense, they couldn't quilify for the WC after flopping against Switzerland, and a group with N.Ireland, Bulgaria and Lithuania ?

@@samwize28 what about Gabby!?

@@dondamon4669 oh jeez. not far behind indeed!

That's because he is a moron.

Plug Ferdinand is a phoney on and off the pitch.

Yeah, because Ferdinand is an idiot!

And this italy side couldn’t reach the next wc

Hallejujah. As said, Southgate has achieved some terrific things but sad as it is, it may take another manager to get England to the level we have always dreamed of.....which they can do.

💯 everyone knows this….

So true. England took early leads but then they started to get dominated, and Southgate just stood there frozen both times with his fingers crossed that the inevitable wouldn't happen.

klopp or pep.....win both

Even when England had a good manager like Capello and a great set of players, they still couldn't win it.

@@dararohan1209 if he had the scrub opponents that southgate had alongside the home advantage, he would have

You can play attractive football no matter the system.

Not necessarily attack as such but have the ability to control the game. The manager instils a negative defensive mentality into the team, you know how many good players England have? Southgate is taking the piss

@@safcjoe7062 or you can just realize you don't have solid enough CBs to play an attacking system hence you need to protect the goal. Knockout tournaments are most often won by non-attractive teams. Look at Chelsea!

@@palashrawat401 we had John stones who's good on the ball. Plus I don't mind the system if we control games which we did most of the time in the euros.

@@safcjoe7062 Stones is good..but Maguire, Shaw, Walker don't give anyone confidence. People keep criticizing Southgate for playing a defensive system but I say he has self awareness of his team's weaknesses. And in knockout football defensive systems (if working) don't lose.

are you for real?

@@TheSixYardBox yes I am, find me one single position that they don't have world class players in. Their squad is jacked. Rice, Foden, Saka, Kane, Tomori Arnold, James, Chillwel, Stones, Sterling, Bellingham, Sancho, Ramsdale. And I'm missing quite a few, but it helps paint the picture, England have the best squad after France maybe

Says it all!

‘Bang on’ do you all need to keep using these stupid phrases?

@@CMJames weird comment.

@@fraz6354 or you can just realize you don't have solid enough CBs to play an attacking system hence you need to protect the goal. Knockout tournaments are most often won by non-attractive teams. Look at Chelsea!

With Martins analysis here are you sure he has not been heading bricks?

It's not that difficult for keown to confuse himself

Germany's run to the 2002 Final was way easier

@@rohithraman6488 and...?

@@broderickfall People are talking as if England's run was easiest

@@rohithraman6488 nobody said England's run was the easiest, just that it was easier than most. Compare it to France's run. England failing to make the semis would have been a disaster. But they did and came short against a quality side... just like they fell against Belgium, Twice

Well said, but Italy outplayed them with their attacking style while England played catenaccio against Italy and hoping to go to penalties. Italy with a mediocre side, the worst I've seen in my life, beat one of the best England sides. To win it, you have to want to win it, and not to hope on penalties kicks.

Instead of just looking at Southgate, why don't you also praise Mancini cause maybe he changed his gameplan at half time cause most of the first half England were the better side and Mancini saw that and tweaked it at half time? Yes Southgate should have gone for a second to kill them off but I'm just looking at the other side

The audacity in these comments. Nothing has changed for decades clearly. England aren’t good enough. They have never been good enough. How people like to delude themselves when assessing historical events. We all watched the game not so long ago. Italy we’re not mediocre. Italy we’re by far the best team of that tournament. It was close between italy and France. England were not expected to win anything. It’s as a miracle they got to the final. Unbelievable.

@@samueldavids3704italy wouldn’t be mediocre if they qualified for the next wc but their failure meant they were perfectly there for the taking If france had the amount of home advantage that england had, they would’ve easily won the tournament meaning england would’ve too if southgate wasn’t a clown

I agree. Although people tend to forget we did beat Germany at the World Cup.

@@singalexsong It wasn't a Germany Team on form this time any other tournament Germany are one of the best. But at home against that version of Germany is a good result but not a great one. They just come off a 2-2 draw with Hungry and a lost to North Macedonia few months before.

i'm guessing you missed the England - Germany game

IMO England are something like 6th or seventh best in the world. The part where I disagree with almost everyone is that Gareth Southgate is not the problem. I believe the squad as a whole is not as good as people think. Interestingly I think that if all the players on England's roster (especially players like Grealish, Sancho and Foden) are at peak fitness and are playing near their best at the time of the tournament england would rise to 3rd or 4th best in the world. Sadly, nearly every tournament most of England's players are exhausted mentally/physically from an excessive domestic schedule, which is a combination of domestic tournaments and the premier league, and often players are just coming back from injuries.....think Henderson, Maguire, Grealish and Sancho this past euros. English football is not designed to help the English national team, nor is it designed to aid in the development in native English talent. Football in England primarily serves as a cash cow for International billionaires like kroenke, the glazers, the Saudi Arabian royal family etc. Why would anyone think that these detached oligarchs care about the good of England and the payers it produces. Often times I hear people say that less games or a winter break would be coddling the English players. This has nothing to do with the heart of the issue. I would not lessen the load out of a misplaced sense of false compassion for the players but instead because I would like to have a team of physically fit and sharp players like Spain seems to always have (even when they disappoint in a tournament) instead of lethargic, exhausted and half-injured players like England had at the 2010, and 2006 World Cup, and the 2016 euros.

@@jamienpatel2803 germany are not what they used to be they have serious troubles atm we have a much better team and it wasn't exactly a convincing win either if muller took his chances we would of lost

Your first sentence is wrong - Simon is gospel 😂 Your second sentence is the best description of Safegate on the Internet 👌

One chance, the euro's. France would have dicked us in the final.

Germany croatia denmark aren't good sides?

@@safcjoe7062 no correct, they are not good sides

@@MrLewbaah what just cos we beat them? That's always a theme. If england were to win that final everyone would've said that Italian side "wasn't the team it was".

@ENGLISH FOOTBALL PODCAST scotland didn't beat croatia🤣

@ENGLISH FOOTBALL PODCAST germany have cl winners in their squad how are they not the team they were?

I imagine Keown has lost 1 IQ point every header he's made.

Then complaining about players being violent/disrespectful. He's a walking oxymoron.

Totally agree, considering we were at home his approach was embarrassing.

Considering it was the final since 1966 I don’t think that statements true

@@dylandench8684 what has happened in the past has no relevance to the current talent England have.

@@dylandench8684 The FA has continually picked terrible managers. Sven, McLaren, Capello, Hodgson, Southgate. The best they sack, Venables, Hoddle or not even employ - Redknapp.

@@fraz6354 we had arguably better talent in the golden generation and got nowhere near a final

@@macoooos9204 yes that awful manager Southgate who got us to a final

I know, its as if he thinks its ok to waste golden opportunities when you get them. Hes fucking stupid.

Yeah Mancini is so amazing, aye. Can't wait to see them at the World Cup.

Hes a puppet woke joke.

England were the better team in that semi final though, and missed two golden opportunities to win the game. Anderton hit the post and Gazzas chance.

What? We've literally fallen once at the last hurdle in our whole history. Two finals. One won, one lost.

It's the English mentality. We don't have that winning mentality that to be the best you have to beat the best. It's more about survival and hoping for a miracle.

@@darkbee2359 England has very good squad but World Cup isn’t about who has the best squad it’s about who put the work as team.