Frustrated the life out of me in the euros but was pretty evident something wasn’t right. Can’t knock his record though, he’s guaranteed goals no matter which side you put him in.
Scored against every Premier league club he has ever faced. Scored international goals against Germany France Italy Croatia Netherlands. Scored 15 goals at the finals of major tournaments for England. Age 31 429 career goals Flat track bully.
He was clearly carrying a knock but dreary Southgate didn’t dare rest him. If he’d have played Watkins through the group stages and given him another couple of weeks we might have won the tournament. We weren’t far off as we were. As for dreamboy3000 - click bait posting of the highest order. Flat track bully yeah? He has 34 goals and 10 assists in the champions league. 263 goals and 62 assists in 363 top league appearances. Only 8 of his 69 England goals were on friendlies. 15 of his 61 goals in competitive games came in major tournaments. If the Bundesliga is such a poor standard, why has the apparently bang average Harry Kane scored fifty goals in it quicker than Haaland, quicker than Lewandowski, quicker than anyone else ever? Surely a standard so low would be easy for everyone?
It was revealed recently he was carrying a back injury through the Euros and played through the pain barrier, whilst I commend his attitude and loyalty for the shirt Southgate should have been firmer and pulled him for the greater good of the team.
Yep, but that was completely on Southgate. He was an hindrace to us that tournament but Southgate didnt have the knackers to drop him. Clearly not fit at the time.
He’s a brilliant forward but there’s no getting away from it that he moves like he’s closer to 40 than 30. He just needs legs around him to run beyond him. No surprise that he had a brilliant relationship with Son at Spurs & was at his best for England with Sterling alongside him. If you have genuine wide players like Madueke & Gordon supporting him & Bellingham coming from deep then he’ll still do well for England for a while. If you try to fill the team with number 10’s & intricate passing like Southgate did in the summer then his England days are number & you need a more mobile forward like Watkins.
I was talking about Dreamy and similar ilk on here who consistently have random takes on absolutely everything. It wasn’t meant as a broad brush to everyone on the BBS. There’s some right mentalists though