BoroMart
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You need to clarify, in the overall tournament or in the finals? Our qualifying for those competitions largely has the same teams it always had, other than yugoslavia has broken up and germany has re-unified. There are more teams in total, but it's 6 matches to win a euros or 7 for a world cup. Just one more match than when we won in 66.How many teams in the euros these days and world cup?
The insinuation is that somehow it's easier for southgate to rack up wins. 'd counter that argument that their are very few poor teams in finals, and only a handful o poor teams in qualifying. If we go back to the 60s and 70s teams like Turkey, Slovakia, Czechs, norway, South Korea, Morocco, Egypt, Japan etc. were all pretty poor sides, they're now usually a very good challenge.
The standard of the second rate teams is far far higher than back in the day. Most of them have some world class players like Salah for Egypt, Mitoma for Japan, Son for S Korea, Modric for Croatia world class players, and even below that level players like Davies for Canada are way better than those teams used to have.What standard are they?
It's facts, not stats. Congratulations on ignoring reality for your own prejudices.It's just a ridiculous twisting of statistics, congratulations.
I didn't even include the nations league in that, because many on here say it isn't a proper competition and because those other managers didn't have that tournament. These facts are limited to Euros and World Cups. Now who is silly?And an additional 'competitive' competition in the nations league. Marty you're so silly.
Souness showed himself up last night. England battered them, stiffled the midfield with Rice and Philips snuffing everything out and taking the heart out of the scots. Souness accepted that England dominated and could have won by more, yet went on a 15 minute rant about how he shouldn't play the players that had just done a job on his team. What a spanner. He couldn't accept that his pre-match view was wrong and southgate was spot on, England competed with Scotland in the middle, dominated it, and took control. If the game was as simple as put all your most creative players on a pitch then we could all be world class managers, but were not because it's much more nuanced than that.Souness and the team disagree and so do I and the majority of others.
Lets not forget how largely awful Souness was as a manager at Liverpool, Southampton, Torino and Newcastle, he got sacked plenty of times for being poor. Great player, but poor manager and a bit of a dinosaur to be honest.