Mea culpa, says twoht. He admits he got it wrong on Gareth Southgate.
England had a pretty good World Cup, even though they lost in the quarter-finals, so it’s time for one of our writers to revisit a pre-tournament Southgate opinion.: ‘There comes a point at which it’s time to step back and consider whether this might have just run its course.’ It’s not a hill that I would have wanted to die on, but it was based on a genuine feeling that performances over this calendar year suggested that England and Gareth Southgate had gone as far as they reasonably could.
The downturn in results in 2022 had looked more substantial than a mere ‘blip’, and perhaps this air of fatalism is what defines my experience as a ‘supporter’ – albeit in a very loose sense – of the England team. Well, England were pretty good for a while and got the rub of the green with a couple of tournament draws. It was fun while it lasted. That sort of thing. The keener-eyed amongst you may have picked up on hints of Tottenham Hotspur in there, too. You develop a resistance to optimism.
Neither does the international manager have to deal with the fierce schedule of the club game. The international manager’s job is more nurturing. They will have maybe only a dozen games per season, and everything will be focussed upon those. It’s a systems job, fine-tuning every element of the set-up to ensure that the players peak at the right time. It’s also an ambassadorial position. They are a representative, whether they like it or not.
And thirdly, there was the team’s performances during the tournament. There was an alternate reading to the ‘collective choke’ narrative that was doing the rounds following the goalless draw with the USA; that 6-2 win against Iran had left them within a point of effectively being through to the next round, especially if they really fancied their chances against Wales in their final match. It made sense to hold off a little to conserve something for those knockout stages.
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