absolute codswallop.
Firstly, if you need to play attacking football to score, and Southgates teams are the all-time highest scoring England teams in tournaments and qualifying, and you need to score to win and Southgate's England have won more competititve and tournament games than any other manager.....then how on earth can you square that circle with a claim that he is "overly defensive"??? It's an absolute logical loophole to these claims. Let me guess 'golden generation', 'easy games'.....I'll save you the effort, this generation is not our best, and all generations have easy games.
We just topped our group, 12 hours ago, and are probably going to be the top or second highest scorers in group games, again, and yet all the evidence and facts are dismissed for this playground rhetoric of 'overly defensive'. The mind boggles, it truly does. England fans will one day look back on this golden age, just like Boro fans look back on the McClaren era with begrudging respect.