I don't know who Thogden is, but why shouldn't people be watching him? Shameless sell-out?

​@@JckSwanstupid

@@JckSwan Hes become a mouthpiece in the British youtube scene for dictatorial Arab regimes

@@1313tennismantrue but isn’t that just football in general nowadays!

Should we all be watching Thogden now?

Well tbf that was what we were all thinking at the time.

A discipline was the key by King otto brought the players together.

If you play and keep it tight, be hard to beat and make the most of set pieces. You ca usually go far in tournament football. They also were lucky at times, but any winner usually gets lucky at some point

Luck and defense

I don't think Greece's achievement is nowhere near what Leicester achieved over a full season in 2016

As a eagles fan, it's kills me how true that comparison is!

And disliked by everyone due to their fans 😂

Amen.

Spurs?

@12thMandalorian disliked because of their fans lmao. You probably never been to an england game. The problem is everyone wants to judge England calling them whatever they want but look at football in all the other countries around the world then try and tell me we have the worst fans. You just got to be real with yourself just say you hate English fans because you don't like English people ffs.

Completely agree. People act like he's had the current England team for all of his tournaments and it's just dumb

I'll give credit to to Gaz where its due for his leadership in the 2018 campaign, especially after low expectations from absolute disappointment from 2014 and 2016, but I'll hold the Croatia match against him for as long as I live. Surely time will and has lightened the weight of contempt I hold against him, but it will be held in my heart regardless. Don't know what he was thinking in his right mind when he kept Sterling on to try and flop for a pen (like come on Southgate, you know he's not even going to try and get a shot off) when Vardy was clearly the hero England and English Football had called for in that moment. Unless by some circumstance only known to the squad where Vardy was not match fit for the day or the week, Jamie was clearly the fox to bust Croatia's box.

@@munmunyee Vardy did fuck all for us in the same position against Colombia though. And in the Euros. Like I love him as a Prem legend but not as an England tournament cult hero

Ali and lingard at the time used to play good back then, don't forget but point stilt stand

Get in! Nice to see ya here Tom

Well said Tom 👏

I see the same issue with Nigeria. People criticizing the team after making the final of the AFCON saying that they made it to the final on luck.

It seems that people's reaction to England vacillate between "we are dreadful" and "we are brilliant". In reality, while England might be either of these for any particular game, overall they tend to be somewhere in between.

Hi Tom

From the outside looking in, what’s the problem with that guy lmao

@@1draigon honestly to me it feels like kids content. it's all loud, jumpy edits, over the top reactions and all the rest

The guy is the literal embodiment of aids.

perfect for the average smooth brained football fan, i love the game , i hate the average fan@@mezombart0423

That and he has piss poor football takes​@@mezombart0423

A few years ago people thought Mexico would break through but they have gone backwards

Cry me a river, this is what happens when you and America cannibalise an entire tournament so it becomes a glorified friendly tournament. Go spout homophobic slurs like the rest of your Mexican fans.

im always rooting for mexico and against the US so it has been a little hard for me these past few years too

Greetings from Germany I feel you😢😂

Speaking of poorly behaved fans OI ELLO DERE MATE

Yeah! How Maguire starts is beyond me, but it is what it is. Tomori should start ahead of an in form Maguire

I think it has a lot more to do with his profile than either Southgate or his ability to be honest. Stones is nailed on, and alongside him, like a lot of managers, Southgate wants someone who is aerially dominant and imposing. That's why whenever Maguire hasn't played, it's tended to be Mings or previously Dire who have started instead.

​@HITCSevens The attitude and possible bias of managers is what makes talented English players move on to other national teams like Nigeria, Jamaica, Ireland and even Poland.

@@kageryu311wow. For once you’re not talking about lukaku and pogba and making excuses for em. This is a surprise

@@HITCSevens I hope Dier never plays for England again. He is honestly the biggest waste of space I can think of and being on the bench for a struggling Bayern ought to put him out of sight, out of mind for Southgate

That would be a perfect cocktail!

@@TheRainbowThiefI see what you did there. It is buy 2 get the 3 free?

We need a couple of Carlton Palmers on the bench though.

Ha Ha Ha Oh ma ribs.

😂😂😂

Same

Agreed 💯. They are hard to watch. I think one of my issues is we are NEVER bold with our subs. Even when Harry Kane is totally out of gas, he will never replace him in the 80th min to win, but keep him on encase it goes all the way to pens.... You'd never see the winners refusing to do something like that. I think it makes me resentful of Kane, Henderson etc... purely because they are rammed down our throats even when it isn't working. Especially when you could get Toney and co coming on, manager saying "go on lad, go make yourself a hero!' when my manager said that to me age 14 I'd go prime vodka Redbull Jamie Vardy on them!

It isn't when you copare it to the big national teams

​@juanjoseph you smoking crack lmao. England got some of the best talent up and coming ffs. Look at teams like Spain or Germany they are no where near are level of talent atm. If you don't like England just say it don't beat round the Bush.

​@@dannymcgee9899 Germany is pretty much history at this point, they don't matter anymore. They're like Hungary lol But compared with Spain, Brasil, and Argentina.... England is mid. Most english players are either not even english or just lucky to be raised in the EPL because they'd never be brought to that league otherwise. There's a reason there aren't any big english players in the english league.

That's why I went to that tournament. They really should have beaten 10 man Brazil but it's the usual story...

That's not how football works. Germany were far different and a better than the team with Carston jancker up top. England the so called golden generation never won a thing because they're were better teams. Far better

Yes, we was going to win the 2002 world cup with Emile Heskey and a 45 year old Teddy Sheringham in the squad......

If my aunt had wheels, she would be a bicycle.

​@CarlosDang3r WE won the group, and yet Germany went into that tournament seeded. Go look at the draw they had, then come back and tell me we wouldn't have made the final, considering we should have had their draw!

Yeah, how that era Dutch team never won anything is one of football's great mysteries.

@@coalfacechris1336 Trust me, as a Dutch person, I'm just as mystified. We arguably had the best team from 1998-2004 but failed to even reach a final. Though, like England, we have a rich and storied tradition of losing on penalties (losing to Brazil in '98 and Italy in 2000 still haunts me; 2014 and 2022 to a lesser extent as well).

​@@niels9203Italy 2000 is the most brutal one imo, completely and utterly dominated the Italians who in some miracle fashion managed to draw it out to penalties only to steal it

@@RonnyWelles If you know Italy, you know that dominating a game doesn't mean shit against, you need to win and kill the game, or you can just consider your domination as useless, especially these old school Italian team with ultra opportunism and realism

@@RonnyWelles Yes, I remember turning the TV off, looking at my brother and we both just didn't get it. How did we lose to Toldo and 10 Italians when we should have won at least 2 or 3-0 in regular time?

Underrated comment

I can just imagine in the future: "Jules Rimet still gleaming, 4328 years of hurt."🙃

based

The rest of the world loves it.

kinda like Tottenham lol 😂

It is.. on paper. I'd say that each Portugal team since their 2016 win has looked better than the one that actually won... but they haven't performed that well. Having great talent and actually doing well at tournaments with them is not guaranteed.

@@sthill1993 Fernando Santos mate, very poor coach, wouldn´t be hired by Braga yet was with Portugal for years. That attack with Bernardo Silva, Diogo Jota, Joao Felix, Rafael Leao, Pedro Neto, Ronaldo and Gonçalo Ramos is amazing.

so much so that they insist on sticking with a 43 year old C ronaldo right lol

@@danep1053thats Ronaldo´s power because Jota should start and after Jota we still have Gonçalo Ramos, Joao Felix and Pedro Neto because Rafael Leao and Bernardo Silva start for sure. Mate, you´re gonna start Maguire and Henderson.

Cooked Xd.

Flamed

I thought he was ok, then he became a massive Qatari mouthpiece 🫤

Based

Can someone explain why everyone hates him? I really enjoyed his vlogs during EURO2020

Bayern Munich going trophyless this season? Stranger things bruh....

I have a theory. A younger Kane was walking round Leicester (whilst on loan) he was shopping. A Romanian gypsy woman with a fist of dying roses tried to sell to him. "I'm sorry, I'm simply not interested in what your selling" After unintentionally spitting in her face with his lips, the soaked Romani lady put a curse on him. The next day he came off the bench against Watford where THAT Deeney goal happened.

Yes, Kane is cursed. But not only him. England were playing 100 years without him and what did they do? Only 1 WC(and a controversial one). So, it's not his problem.

They are just 5 points behind the leaders

@@manuelnoriega5364 They are 'just' 5 points behind... the team that doesn't lose and the same team that beat them last match. Maybe that's not much to you. And did you watch the Lazio game? Bayern are shit now, don't expect them to make 15 wins in a row, they are not City.

And I would STILL manage your expectations

@@CMJamesI’m not expecting to win it, but to see this set of players on the big stage is exciting.

@@Tom-se9geGood to hear that you'll visit our country. As a German England fan I'm absolutely hyped for the euros and I can't wait to meet other England fans

😂😂😂 enjoy losing

That's unfair to Dallas

​@@Staceyatkinson4496Nothing is unfair to Dallas

This is so true XD. Whenever either of these two teams lose they get meme so hard

Swap the names and terminologies in this video and you get a Cowboys 2023 playoff review

@@rumblebird9888They wouldn’t be nowhere near as memed upon had their fans not hyped them up before every season/world cup. “This is our year”=“It’s coming home”

I'm not English also I'm Congolese South African. Considering how those two perform in the Afcon a weekly ago. Both teams went to every game as underdogs(expect Tanzania and Namibia game). England will go to the Euros as underdogs (stupid to say) especially in Germany. Denmark will have an home advantage in Germany I could say the same thing about Serbia bc a lot slavs live in Germany.

That's Southgates attitude that's followed him his entire career of being out of his depth in high pressure moments.

Could just be Southgate’s tactics. In spite of England’s attacking talent, they play quite defensive football

@@silvesta5027 Which is hilarious given most of England's players play in very high pressing teams (City, Liverpool, Arsenal etc.)

@@AZ240992 you want to do high-press with Maguire and Stones in the back? r't'rd lmao

Thats where Southgate gets so little credit from fans and the media.

They cared more about club than country. The Club divides sound like something kids would have done not grown men representing their country

@@shadowside8433 Why should he get credit? England loses every big match vs a big team under him, except vs Germany (who went out in groups 2 WC in a row and were awful at the time by their standards) Southgate has never won a tournament game England weren't big favourites for

@@shadowside8433 1-0 up in 2 mins in a euro final at HOME! And he decides to sit it out and not get more goals 🤯 he’s a championship manager at best

Plus England played 4-4-2 for 50 years

I wonder what he thinks about the people who constantly joke about him being beheaded by ISIS or something

I honestly never thought a corporate styled channel like this would randomly throw shade at another UKpostsr

​@@rumblebird9888at this point Alfie probably has mostly nailed creative control, so not too surprising. I'm sure the owners realise how many people would unsubscribe if someone else took over writing, narration etc.

@@philipreid2542 it is already evident from the HITC sport since Michael and even James left.

There is a winter break now.

There is a winter break now and Jude and Kane will have benefited from ones in La Liga and the Bundesliga.

@@tajj7 Damn, I actually missed that 13 day break Arsenal got. The english calender with their 20 Team league, 2 Cup Competition and at least one team advancing to the Champions League Semi Final is still much harder, then the German 18 team 1 Cup with no rematches. And it is way too common sight, that the best players of the Premiere League have a disapointing tournament during the summer. The obvious example is Kevin de Bruyne, who scored a combined 3 goals in 22 World Cup and Euro games.

@@PassivesAbseits And? I never get these BS arguments, Arsenal have a 25 man squad, every single player is full international. They also have players like Tierney, Sambi Lokongo and Tavares out on loan, more internationals who are good enough to start for PL teams. Then they have players like Patino who is a first teamer in the championship on loan, then they have an under 21 squad, with another around 20 players and another like 10 players out on loan. They have one of the best youth academies in the country, if not the world, get hundreds of millions in TV money, champions league money, gate receipts to pay all these multiple talented players, they have people like Smith-Rowe barely getting a game and he'd be a key player for half the PL. and you are telling me they cant fucking field a decent team in OOOH two cup competitions without tiring their players? , MY HEART BLEEDS. It's complete nonsense, rotate and stop bloody complaining. Big clubs moaning about too many games is complete BS, they easily have huge squads with talented players in every position and academy graduates from good academies desperate to play and then they complain about the League Cup? it's hilarious. The reality is all these top managers just want to play their best teams every game and win every game easily. You get that Arsenal's budget is probably higher than half the Bundesligas COMBINED budget, the players in the top 6s U21 teams would be starting in most European top 5 league teams, some would probably start for the top teams in those league and they dont get a kick in PL teams.

@@tajj7 Well... the problem is, that Arsenal cant really afford to bench Saka. Here is the problem: You need at least 86 points to win the Premiere League. And that is the lowest estimated number, with the lone exception being Leicster. It is more likely, that 90 points won't be enough. So you can't really afford to leave any points at the table. A random tie at Bournmouth might cost you the title. Arsenal basically put themselves out of the title race by losing against Fulham and West Ham. They need to play a flawless rest of the season and even that might not be enough. The same goes for the Champions League Knock Out stage. And in the Group Stage or the Cup Competition, the managers rotate as much as they can. But it is an undeniable truth, that the competition in the Premiere League is tighter and harder, then in any other league. But even if I grant you your point, and the managers should rotate more. That doesn't fix the problem, Gareth Southgate will face, when the Managers refused to rotate. He will still pay the price for the Premiere League season.

Without Suarez's short fuse hopefully.

Yes, that's a good point, England didn't look like winning that match against France

I mean also in that game Saka had Hernandez on toast and honestly it was baffling how badly he was getting fouled without consequences. He could have been mugged and the ref. would have called Free-kick to France

I thought England were way better

@@glencurtis6052 I just rewatched the highlights and we had way more chances than I remembered, for some reason though at the time I did feel like france were a bit more threatening, they wanted it more.

PSG did dominate the French league, just not the champions league, but not many could dominate that.

1-galacticos

Figo's Portugal national team.

@@stanogden8864 a euro final and a semi final in the world cup is hardly a bad result.

Good idea man!!

The fans have behaved a lot worse at all times. Now you see it on England comments sections, absurd Football opinions. When Southgate watched Henderson it was branded a crime because people are too pig ignorant to understand why he would. Oh and because some Luton fan was bitter his team’s crock of shit wouldn’t be picked.

@@bens4602 shush

Still living rent free in some people's minds.

The media have been a lot nicer to them since they knelt for George Floyd

mUrDoCh MeDiA

Then don’t watch

Croatia hasn’t won anything

you forgot in football you need fair share of luck too. the sample is too small hence it allows for anomalies to arries more. like croatia. to reach WC semis and final they won 4 penalty shootouts out of 8 KO games, 1 others was E.T and 2 losses (+1 win in third place game) which is actually pretty bad. but its KO and not a league

@@GeekyMedia havent won anything?!?! Thats rich coming from an englishman . Let me remind you 2018 - world cup silver medal , 2022 - world cup bronze medal and 2023 uefa nations league silver medal. How is that not winning? Reaching the finals of 2 major tournaments and semis in each of them! You guys have been milking that one world cup for 70 years now almost lol

@@tayloryoung9803to get lucky you need to have a “never give up” mentality which Croatia has. Fortune favours the brave my friend and England hasnt had bravery since the 60s

i feel the same way about france, i don't see us beating you at all as an england fan

Bruv… the French are favourites. As a neutral I genuinely predict the next 10 years of international football to be full of French dominance starting w the euros and wc

Well said

Not our fault you’re from an inferior country is it

Disinterest means neutrality, like not having a vested interest. You mean lack of interest.

The problem with the outside perception of England is that we’re not but many fans practically give fellatio to their team’s foreign players and that’s embarrassing. And it’s commonly dismissed that we take no interest in other leagues but that’s simply not true, think of how much this channel does and it’s English, Tifo do and they’re English, and there’s several like them. And it’s not aided by how anti English other nations are - one of the most anti English managers in the league (with no good reason) is Thomas Frank, a Dane.

I just want something that is bearable to watch. Which England aren't doing i'd accept it if we were winning silverware but we aren't didn't even win rhe Euros when most of our games were at Wembley

Thank you for this comment, I didn’t actually read the email the first time, had to go back after I read yours. Very glad I did.

I'm Polish and author od this email probably are Pole too(He had a dog from old polish cartoon on avatar). Some people in Poland thinks that Lewandowski is our national treasure and everyone who criticise him are traitor or enemy of Poland. This is strange but this is a one of form a "western complex".

Tbf we had Hargreaves during that time but he was made of glass

​@@Maginiesta Agree!

Spot on, I’m a gooner so I’m very pro rice but he just gives that security to allow England to get on the front foot where we are strongest

Carrick and Hargreaves: 🗿🗿

@@hijisfriend9030 Hargreaves was injury prone, Karrik was not exactly DMF. Anyway, I wish he played more....

Same people who call leverkusen the best team in europe even though they have also not won anything recently (although that may change this season)

Yep I agree.

Outplayed? Not for me. They beat us fairly, but they never outplayed us.

putting pickford in this is wild

all the player u listed other than Philips are fine to start for england and pickford is actually the best gk itw when hes got the england shirt on. Portugal is a good team sure but no way you can put them above england

You obviously don't understand football

The fuck is shaw doing on that list?

@@kskhas6750 He literally is a PL fighting for relegation team keeper…

We broke that curse recently and won 2 of our last 3. I’m hopeful that the constant penalty heartache days are gone

We also need a braver or more technically nuanced manager. Can he give up possession to make a counter attack goal more likely? Can he take Kane off and put someone else who can give Foden, Bellingham some space??

Cold Palmer and Toney subbing on with 100% Penalty accuracy

​@IncredibleMet and can he leave Jordan Henderson out of the squad and maybe include someone who can still make an impact on an international game? Who would I suggest? Anyone - even someone like Frank Sidebottom! The weakest part of the england squad is the manager. Southgate makes an excellent tour director but he is too negative to manage in games.

Penalty shootout was not major problem in past decades. England was consistently poor against top teams in terms of ball possession/build-up. For example, the only real weapon so called golden generation had was set pieces and Bekham's crossing. In Euro 96 England trashed Netherlands. Since than, only in EURO 2020 England was able to outplay top team (Germany) in big tournaments. In all games England lost in penalties, they were not better team. Maybe game vs Germany in 1996 was exception....

Probably because the flags are essentially the same

Thanks buddy, even if Finland aren't in the Euros, you'll always be the champions of producing metal music. 🤘

@@jamesg9468 I won't be the only one. Your TV, your music, your literature, your humour, - and your football - have found their share of devoted fans here for a long time. Premier League was a fixture of our Saturday afternoons for well over two decades. Fueled the fire of our future hopes. (Modest as they may be!)

You're not doing so bad considering it's your 3rd/4th choice sport. I do miss the Kewell and Viduka days though, it would be good to see a few more Aussies. I remember Jedinak fondly

You have a highly in flated ranking ,Asian group not so good

Well maybe they’ll get convicted of something and find themselves sent to Australia 😘

How can Southgate excuse all of this!!!! /s

That should change with more comfort playing abroad (fingers crossed).

To be fair that’s due in large part that it used to be a 16 team tournament

No one loves quoting those types of stats more than Southgate. I’m sure he’s very aware of Englands poor record in knock out games home and away

​@CMJames so aware that he's going to pick the same players, with the same tactics, but expect a different result?

Thought he didn't say world or anything specific. But also thought he was referring to the European teams in the Euros.

Argentina did as well. But let's keep disrespecting South America.

@@ShootNeutrality You're right and you should say it.

Well the last 3 tournaments for South American countries include the South american version of the euros which brazil and argentina should be in the final in every tournament and the fact they werent is worse than france or england not reaching the semis of the euros. So put your little outrage machine away and engage your brain.

You must be a masochist if you support England… for clarity I am an England fan who tries not to get carried away every tournament. I think we have done brilliantly in every tournament since the 2018 World Cup. Do you remember the pure hatred that spewed out when England lost the Euros final in 2021? Honestly if that was England fans doing that to any other team it would be national news…

A german who likes england? Defo never heard that before

@@pratosaurusrex1128 I remember, I was ashamed when I saw this in 2021. But I think the English have some really good and passionate fans and I also like the history of the England team. And "Three Lions" is probably the best football song ever written. I'm not a masochist, I just like to dream... Let's hope we'll see each other in Germany in summer

@@ranzroffel2692 I’ll probably get flack for this but it is strange seeing Germany struggle recently at international tournaments. I hope you guys can come back stronger soon. Now England are getting better at penalties I want a rematch against a strong German team 😄😅

@@pratosaurusrex1128 Yeah, trust me the atmosphere here towards our national team is so strange. I hope the best for them, but England is my team. I could never really identify with the German team at all. A match against Germany would be the best fixture for next euro

England aren’t allowed to win. Their job is to all look at each other asking what they should do next in every single match against every single team. It’s like they don’t know why they are all wearing shorts walking around on this particular pitch of grass.

It makes absolute no sense why the English FA is keeping Southgate for this Euro with this amount of talent

@@shyone8386 Because he's middle class conservative looking enough to avoid getting much stick from press and fans. When you consider that Frank Lampard and possibly even Sol Campbell are the only real rivals in this regard, he's the best man for the job.

​@@shyone8386 which realistic alternative would you replace him with then?

@@adamdickinson2894 Pep

And we can't even get a manager

If they don't win the euros or the World Cup with this generation, the English FA should be shut down.

You should watch the video he did on that dude who was in charge of the Irish fa

@@ailbeburns4564just give it Keano and be done with it

Let's remember that Ireland has 1/10th of the population, is doing reasonable in the rugby and has two traditional sports that no one else plays.

its simple u just play rice as the only 6 with two 8s ahead of him,bellingham and one from foden maddison or grealish,then your 3 up front its how barca and city played and how arsenal play now

@@user-pw6gm1tu6q it is _really hard_ to get that to work in international football, where players don't have nearly as much time to gel, and where losing a single game is a lot more punishing than in a league competition. That's why it tends to be more defensive. I do want to see a Rice/Foden/Bellingham midfield but realistically Mount instead of Foden is what's probably going to happen (or Henderson again), just because those two while not being studs are actually decent at defending.

@@Pikachu0071000CS it will be phillips or hendo i cant see mount getting back in time,im scottish so i dont really care but im a football fan and seeing foden and trent with the talent they have not playing is crazy to me,i even think reece james if he cud stay fit wud be top 3 RB in the world,i also like harvey barnes but cant even see him on your flight,rumours he cud be on ours tho

England might genuinely play a 4-4-fucking-2 if that happened. Midfield isn't the best and two insane strikers

@@Pikachu0071000CS midfield isn't the best? England has Foden and Bellingham, they are insane mid fielders.

@@Pikachu0071000CS huh? foden, bellingham, rice, maddison, trent/palmer can also play there, i'd argue england has one of the best midfields in international football

Foden, Bellingham, and Rice (whom i'm curious why you would not include lol) are amazing, but there is in my opinion barely anyone capable of backing them up to a reasonable level, besides in Foden's position, which isn't even very sustainable as overly aggressive football is very risky in international football - hence why he doesn't start much. Rice's best backup is Phillips, who rode bench for ages before being loaned out unceremoniously to West Ham, and while he can be good on a good day is nowhere near the same level; and the same is true for Bellingham's position, where the best backup is maybe Mount? Who has his own injury issues. 442 would be able to reduce our reliance on them specifically. Alternatively a 3-5-2 so we can ignore the fact that we have not got a single good LB lol.

@@Pikachu0071000CS rice's best backup is gallagher. Bellingham's best backup is maddison. There is also ward-prowse, trent (if walker plays RB) and many others. I don't think we're short of CMs and we have shaw who I would say is a "good LB".

And now you get called one for saying Maguire might deserve to make the squad and that Southgate might actually be a good coach. How times change.

@@bens4602 I mean if you say anything nice or good about Man Utd let alone just Maguire to be fair :) - That being said if man utd make a mistake it's always his fault, same with Onana - they ignore all the good things and only focus on the bad.

They want xabi alonso 😂

Tuchel has shown interest in the past Jose Mourinho potentially as well If Newcastle sack Eddie Howe he’s there as well

A lot of those guys have a chance to go on to play for England, a lot of them are like in their teens or early 20s, like I think Livramento is good enough to play for England even though lots of competition at right back, Liam Delap is only 21, he could easily follow a path like Kane or say Toney, start banging some goals in the championship, get the right move to a PL club and he could be an England regular at like 25 say. Once Kane goes the striker spots are more open as well so lots of chance for a young striker to breakthrough over the next 4-5 years as Kane ages out of the team. Left back and centre back spots are up in the air. You are more looking at guys that are already like 24-25, in positions crowded with good players, like yeh Hudson-Odoi can;t see him playing for England again though I think he turned down Ghana to go to the World Cup IIRC. I suppose at the end of the day a lot of these guys are born in England, brought up in England, speak English, and probably grew up supporting England and idolising England players as kids, so to suddenly switch to a country they might only have a loose connection with through grandparents or one parent etc. might not sit well with them mentally. I mean are some of these players who switch not just really playing international for the sake of it? rather than being passionate about it and desperately wanting to give their all to their country, because it is not really their country, I don't know. I think personally if I was a pro footballer I'd struggle to be that motivated to go play for Ireland or Scotland or something, I'd probably just prefer to have summers off and support England in tournaments.

@@tajj7 But I think it would be as big of a deal or as massive of a switch for guys to go from England to Scotland, and especially England to Jamaica (although Jamaica as their own weird issues with duo-nats). Most English-Jamaicans have really recent ancestry and are especially proud of their heritage. The only thing stopping guys from switching over to Scotland at least in my eyes is that Scotland will always have a tougher road to qualify for major tournaments especially the World Cup.

I mostly agree with you but people please, do watch Tomori's Serie A performances before hyping him up. The guy is error-prone and unreliable.

Let's be honest, he is f*cking infuriating.....

That was random

I would suggest that if you are trying to get a picture of a game which includes penalties, including penalties in the xG statistics will give you a better picture of how the game went that not doing so.

​@@gyorkshire257Yes France created two legitimate goal chances from open play whereas England got two penalties one of which was questionable and created nothing from open play. The opinion that England was better than France was massively false. So no xG doesn't tell the sorry, non penalty xG does show the full story France where much better and England had to rely on set pieces as usual to be competitive and still the opinion is held they have a world class attack which is bs

@@maximusdecimusmeridius9359 England do have a world class attack tho? Unless Kane, Saka, Foden etc are not world class players?

​@@gyorkshire257 Penalty xG is so extreme and comes from sufficiently rare events that including it makes it a much worse indicator of dominance. It's the correct metric for measuring finishing/ignoring shooting randomness, but non-penalty xG gives a far better sense of which team threatened more. To illustrate, I'm going to show how even a team with ideal conditions (massive dominance and lots of pens) would still have their xG fail to accurately reflect their dominance as well when pens are included. This is a bit long, I tried to be as clear as possible which led to a lot of detail. Also I was having fun writing about it lol. Man City won the most penalties in the Prem last year, 10. Assuming this is equal to their expected number of penalties (it's most likely a mild overcount, because topping a leaderboard for a volatile stat usually means positive variance, even when they should be expected to have the most based on quality) then at 0.8 xG per pen, that's 8 xG total, or around 0.22 per match. Their dominance is at least roughly similar throughout most of their matches, and so would predict a narrow range of penalty xG that's "deserved" in each match, when we only consider dominance rather than specific incidents: I'd guess there wasn't a match all season where that value would be above 0.35. As a result, in any match in which they do get a penalty, their xG would be overstating their dominance by at least 0.4, and most of the time it would be substantially more. On top of that, non-penalty xG includes a huge chunk of the signal from winning penalties, because better teams are both more likely to win penalties and more likely to have more non-penalty xG. With enough data, you could run a regression on this, and I think you would get a ridiculously high correlation between the two - winning penalties is a distinct skill, but not typically a particularly extreme one afaik. (The corollary of City's - or another top team's - dominance being the least over-measured when they get penalties is, of course, that it's the most under-measured is when they don't, but this has a smaller maximum effect on a given match, because penalties occur less frequently than once every two games: if City play four games and get one pen the value is .2 too low 3 times and .6 too high once, while for a 1 penalty per 10 games team it would be .08 too low 9 times and .72 too high once. Obviously the gap could be greater with multiple penalties in a match, but it would still be lower for a better team than for a worse one awarded the same number)

2.59 vs 1.32 and that’s all penalties? My days.

As an england fan i'd argue that mbappe isn't even france's most important player, I think griezmann is a lot more valuable to france

Unfortunately you have to remember how amazingly racist some England fans are. That became very obvious that day.

France are ovverated a lot. Even In the wc mbappe and griezmann bailed them out. Defensively they are suspect.

Well, I've heard people hoping England won't win because they don't want Southgate to be the one bringing a trophy home.

​@@matthewlevine2159 He won't win so there seems little point in hoping he doesn't. I'd love it if he was a good, capable manager and would bring England success

@@matthewlevine2159nah. I wouldn’t want England to win because that only means the FA will push Southgate to stay longer 🤢

how has allison made that top 5 then

I think he meant Saka

I think foden does

Kane would've made the top 5 if he were still playing in England Right now best player in the PL it's Salah no question

​@@greeze4685Because he's the best keeper in the league?

Foden has been heavily overrated recently. I think he is one of the best talents but he lacks the mental profile to dictate a game or provide something in attack which saka and bellingham can’t. Trent is more worthwhile to build around as he actually brings something we don’t have which is instant chance creation. I’m not sure why people want foden when he specialises in half turns and transitions which arnt that valuable

@@Kzeditzzz387Foden underrated ? He’s carried city’s attack with haaland and kdb out just look at his stats

@@iNS4N3xixSN1P3R Didn't call him utter shit, he is an elite player but the notion of needing to build around player which for certain has no definite trait in attack apart from being good in tight spaces, turning well and shooting well from close range for me is crazy. Rooney you know what he can definitintly do (traits) drive with the ball ,cross,1v1 dribbling ability. I could list them all out these are things he can do with effiency. Foden can't always beat a man, he isn't strong enough to carry the ball like zidane,kdb,bellingham. His chance creation and decision making isn't the greatest and sometimes rushes plays which pep in the past has crtiqued him for. Foden will become that generational player who deserves the plaudits when he is able to control and dictate games like david silva and is able to contribute to goals as he is now. I doubt we see it before kdb leaves

@@Kzeditzzz387absolutely wild take there’s a reason he’s the man pep used to dictate play when KDB was out injured for months and it’s because he’s the 2nd best at controlling a game in the league other than KDB arguably 2nd best in the world at it not having foden as anything other than world class is madness and I don’t like Man City at all

@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 Yea stop the waffle he is better at dictating a game compared to jorginho, rodri, pascal gross i could probably name 20 midfielders who can genuinely dictate a game better. Foden is a light spark a player when he gets the ball he creates and runs he doens't control lol.

Fully agree. If anyone other than England or France wins the Euros it will be seen as an upset. Those two teams should on paper should be wiping the floor with everyone else.

Portugal is better than england cmon@@WalkerIGP

@@boogy1033Nah, if you look at the overall squad as in both the starting 11 and the bench, England is stronger. England's main weakness right now is actually the manager, too conservative and defensive to make proper use of the attacking talent England has. They are somewhat shackled under Southgate.

Are u serious ? Portugal attack is more depper than England, and if u want to talk abou the Gk and CB's none of them would make the portugal squad, if a team who have Pickford, Maguire, Shaw and Henderson in their strating squad thats not a world class team, only 2 players would start in POrtugal team and thats Bellingham and maybe Kane@@WalkerIGP

@@boogy1033We will not agree, so let's end it here. Time of course will tell who the best team is at the Euros.

i'd say if he had more experience playing for england konsa would be a great CB option

Very well put. He's got us out of our rut. I even think in general the media (myself and my boys which is anecdotal) are much more behind the team than we used to be. We had to strong arm him into bellingham, Abrahams & Sancho (who was top tier at the time). One thing other nations have over us is playing in multiple nations. For us to win he really needs to be a bit more of a maverick and bring players like tomori (and maybe even RLC) in. The reliance on Kalvin Phillips, Maguire & Mount will be to our detriment once it gets to knock out phase

Maguire is a better player than every single one listed. Only Branthwaite looks like he could one day be as good. That’s more a compliment to Maguire - against unprecedented hate, he’s consistently been a solid and at times excellent defender for United.

Howe is of more service to England managing Newcastle players week in week out than the England team.

I wouldn’t replace Southgate - and while your point is better explained than most, I can’t help but feel you’re riding the anti Southgate train rather than knowing we need to get rid. I view him as a valuable asset to the side.

Also Southgate is what we need - a coach not a manager. The best 2022 WC manager was Flick and 🇩🇪 went out in the group while 🇦🇷 coach had never managed before.