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Excellent Ukraine win coming from behind, very positive, good shape plenty of controlled passion 👏

Southgate doesn’t think he can replace Kalvin Phillips, a basic player who can’t get in a premier league team! Southgate is a loser, he only got the job because he was already in the building, a woke safe pair of hands, he has achieved nothing above what’s expected with the talents at his disposal . Hasn’t got the character and honesty of a Kevin Keegan who admitted he was out of his depth at international level and walked for the sake of his country.

Southgate is a loser, he had the look of a nervous frightened man from the first game, it’s obviously been passed on to the players. Kane has the look of an Ashley Barnes, to many miles on the clock.

NO Scotland shots on or off target. 10 German shots on target 20 shots off target. Total embarrassment, ..Billy Bremner, Jimmy Johnston, Jock Stein will turning in their graves.

Not a shot on or off target, total football embarrassment, might as well get on the plane now and leave it to England.

Can’t remember how many times I’ve been to Gib but just about recall the first, on the way to Australia and my parents talking to the one and only Alan Wicker in a photography shop. Apparently he was very friendly, no surprise and helped my old man choose a camera, as he hadn’t a clue. The queen also had her yacht Britannia moored up. Happy days😎

Maybe Gibraltar are an emerging football nation and a 0.0 or narrow 0.2 win is a good result! Actually I wouldn’t mind them beating England, just to hear Southgate’s after match press interview.🤣hilarious

Gibraltars a lovely atmospheric place, visited it many times, walking past the Victoria Stadium . Most be a buzz flying in with the view of the rock and seeing the small looking runway. At least the Jocks would have a good time, before the embarrassment of nearly getting beat by a gallant bunch of part timers.

Remember this game very well, had the perfect view of that Morris goal sitting directly behind the shot., lovely strike from strangely disappointing man. Gerry Francis was the main man at QPR, fantastic midfield player of the time, also maverick Stan Bowles and 2 real tough guy defenders Webb and McClintock. Martin Peters was class on the day, as was Phil ‘Charlie’ Boyer, a very sharp player. Ted McDougal was Ted McDougal, ball in the net, no frills, a complicated guy but underneath a nice person. How time flys!

Truly great player and then manager……. In his initial two and a half seasons, Zidane became the first coach to win the Champions League three times in a row, won the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup twice each, as well as a La Liga title and a Supercopa de España.

For many years there was a ‘ cheap’ turnstile, if you were in the know. Mr Chase closed that down!

I think Norwich should follow the initiative of the semi pro local clubs and have a ‘ Pay What You Want Day’. That would be interesting 😂

I agree that you don’t have to be a world class player to become a top coach, although there many more than you quoted. Locally Alf Ramsey, Bobby Robson, top players top coach. Norwich- Bond, Brown and of course Lambert, were right up there as players. My original point is that you really need to have been in professional football as a player to truly understand what’s possible and to have that inner knowledge which sets the amateur from a professional, otherwise the premier league coaches would be made up of university post graduates of sport.

To many names to go through individually, Ipswich lad we know about and his early injury at Spurs, Lawrie McMenemy wasn’t a full time pro, I think played for Bishop Auckland, an imposing figure ex army. He qualified as a coach alongside some of the greats late 60’s, was a friend of my late father. Had good success at Southampton , ( although was a complete failure at Sunderland on his own) by using experienced older pros, like Alan Ball, Mike Channon etc, who would basically run the team from within. John Bond was like this to, Martin Peters kept things moving from midfield into attack and everything else was kept simple, positive and quick, no over complication and definitely not taking the ball back to the left back position from a good opportunity to attack, as our new modern wonder coaches do! My problem is that the club which I’ve watched in great detail inside and out, over to many years, is now full of ‘ teacher types who think that everything is data, learnt from the book, promoting each other, when football is such a simple game over complicated by ‘ professors’. Same goes for the medical side, players breaking down for the smallest of stress injuries, its barely a contact sport now yet players go missing for weeks.

Wenger played. You don’t have to be world class or even a top player, otherwise Bobby Charlton& Bobby Moore would have been great managers but it definitely helps. Mourinho was smart and learned from a master by being Sir Bobby Robsons translator then adding his own strong personality, which took him a long way. Norwich City owe a lot of their success to another football master in Ron Greenwood, who through the so called ‘West Ham Academy’, taught good pros such as Harry Rednapp, ‘ El Tel’, John Bond, Ken Brown . Bond came to Norwich with Ken Brown and the methods of simple attacking football stayed with the club for many years, right through to Dav Stringer and Mike Walker. Why when the clubs only success has come through true football professionals, do we turn to data sheets, complex unworkable tactic methods, from personal who have never been able to master the techniques which they demand of others? Hilarious 🤣