Sometimes I hate social media

Thankfully I don't do twitter or Instagram however I am on Facebook and just scrolling down my feed and following England's efforts at the euros the armchair experts and critics are out in force giving scathing opinions on literally all the squad and the manager.

Gareth Southgate inherited a mess at the back end of 2016 and has brought in a hell of a lot of exciting young players and took the took much further than all bar one England manager throughout history and what he has done should be respected not slated.

I've seen stuff written negatively about a lot of young lads in the squad who have had long tiring seasons and given their all.

Talksport on Facebook and the likes of Adrian Durham have really laid in to the lads.

I wonder how people would feel if strangers came to their place of worked and booed and heckled and wrote about them saying they wern't very good at their job.

I'm at an age where I can deal with sporting disappointment with acceptance and not let it affect my life.

Armchair expets and keyboard warriors are ten a penny nowadays whereas back in the day opinions used to be offered and shared in the pub over a pint or two and life carried on.

That is all.

 

One I've heard several times since Sunday is, Kane's past it.

This is a man who's just scored 36 goals in 32 games, in his debut season in one of the best leagues in the world.

 

I don’t think Kane should have been playing but only because he doesn’t seem to be anything like 100%

 

Can't fault Kane on his record which last season is truly astonishing but he definitely looked out of sorts in the Euros. It's a difficult one but I think Southgate was right to start him but should have substituted him much earlier, maybe at half time in some of the games.

 

Painful isn't it.
Be very interesting to see where England are in 4 years time. Southgate leaves a huge challenge for the next manager to out perform him.

 

The talent is there in that squad for the next manager, whoever that is.

 

I mean given the reaction to this tournament I expect we'll turn up the world cup and thrash any team outside the top 10 but 3 or more goals as we stroll to the title.

 

We could always try attacking teams

 

We always get this, so called fans and experts giving their opinions before during and after the event. That is normal.
But some of them like on talkSport for example, really do annoy me as well. They're full of ignorant and critical comments, which sometimes really go too far.
And I'm sure none of them would have done better, if given the chance.
I think Gareth has made the right choice here and he'd probably made it just before or during the tournament. Good luck to him, as he's now looking for a top Prem club, or maybe one in Europe.

 

As a nation we think we're better at everything than anyone else, then when reality hits we melt like snowflakes. We're proper delusional

 

I always hate Social Media. Especially X (Twitter was ok but it's dead in more than just name)

The charity had to withdraw from X due to the complete lack of regulation that Elon thinks is so important. There is a reckoning coming with all of this social abuse and cyber bullying.

 

I read one comment in the Daily Mirror I think about reflecting on the Euro failure we've just had.
I think for some its win or clear off.
I would never class reaching a final at any level in football as a failure.

 

Collectively Kane, Foden, Saka, Bellingham and Walker had very poor tournaments, Walker probably past it , Kane jury out definitely injured but he is quite often

 

Walker got picked for the tournament 11.

 

Some of those players' performances may have fallen short of what with hindsight were perhaps unrealistically high expectations, but I think "very poor" is rather harsh, particularly on Saka.

 

Saka is the one I was reserved about but Foden definitely fell well short, All we heard in the build up was how good Bellingham was, he had 45 mins first game then a bicycle kick goal other than that meh.

 

That is bizarre in the final and other games he got caught out massively

 

We could and we may well play more adventurous under a mew coach but that is no guarantee of success.
If people say they want a change because it's been hard to watch that i can accept all day long.
The ones saying he has been unsuccessful are talking nonsense.
That's the distinction for me.

 

We surely went into the tournament wanting to win.
We didn't ,so we failed in our quest to be champions

 

Spot on. People won't have it Duff failed losing Play-Off Final.