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The England approsch. Yes. It's just that they keep shitting themselves over the top job. The other teams are doing really well. All of them, from junior upwards, play the same system. I thought, and said (no revision there) that Southgate was a good choice as he was part of that system...

The FA wanted the 'best available'. But, in Southgate's case, finally asked a simple question: Why have a system in place for a coach to come through the ranks then distrust that system? My greater point I made previously, and long ago. The best international coach isn't one with all the...

Nobody's getting ahead of anything. The point being made is that the FA appointed a manager who bought into what Lancaster Gate wanted and St George's Park was built for. Whether England went out to Colombia or win the whole thing is irrespective.

There was this common idea in the English FA, until the foreign policy stopped working, that a manager has to be highly skilled in and successful in club football. It didn't apply to English candidates (because their weren't any) yet they got it right with Southgate. Lancaster Gate has had an...