Other Games 2025-26

[cdbearsfan]

Have a look who the best manager in England's history managed next.

[mrfuse]

Why are they fellating Foden over a three yard pass when Eze has just bent it in the top corner from 20 yards first time?

NARRATIVE.

It's a simple pass, if anything it's bobbling and Eze catches it sweetly on the bounce. They even brought up Foden when interviewing Eze.

He has his moments ...none in an England shirt but hes the most overrated player in the premier league with Kamara being the most underrated.

[Rotterdam]

With admittedly my villa glasses on, ITV changed tact when Lord Jude came on and Little Phil. England were 'purring' apparently. Anderson/Konsa barely mentioned at the end as I felt they were the best two.

[paul_e]

They were desperate for Foden to do well and ended up praising him for the most minor of things and ignoring anything he did that wasn't great.

It's weird because he gets all this despite having never really played well in 45 attempts, he makes Barnes look like he had a successful England career.

[Dave]

Southgate is Gerrard, Tuchel is Emery.

Not sure that tracks with Southgate being England's second best manager in history.

I'm not convinced. His record against countries in the top 10 is appalling. I think we got as far as we have done in recent competitions despite him rather than because of him. I don't know if he's taking a sabbatical from football voluntarily or not but there's hardly a queue of top clubs trying to sign him up. Surely the second best manager in England's history should be taking his pick from the top jobs. Time will be the judge I guess.

Not really, his record is the judge. And his tournament record is the second best of any England manager.

It's a perfectly coherent argument that he's only second best because of the terrible job that most of the others did and he's the proud winner of the tallest dwarf competition (not an argument that I choose to believe), but that is still what he is.

[Somniloquism]

They were desperate for Foden to do well and ended up praising him for the most minor of things and ignoring anything he did that wasn't great.

It's weird because he gets all this despite having never really played well in 45 attempts, he makes Barnes look like he had a successful England career.

TBF, they were about to talk about "maybe he can't do the role" but then he did the simple pass and any continuance of criticism was straight out the door. They didn't even mention when his clearing defensive header took the ball off of Eze's foot.

[ChicagoLion]

Why are they fellating Foden over a three yard pass when Eze has just bent it in the top corner from 20 yards first time?

NARRATIVE.

It's a simple pass, if anything it's bobbling and Eze catches it sweetly on the bounce. They even brought up Foden when interviewing Eze.

He has his moments ...none in an England shirt but hes the most overrated player in the premier league with Kamara being the most underrated.

I agree with this.