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It was the instance of playing 4-4-2 that hampered us too. Hindsight is 20:20 but a 4-3-3 or 5-3-2/3-4-3 could’ve suited that England team well.

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We That’s not even remotely true. Increasing the tax-free allowance helps the poorest first.

You’re parroting a slogans now. How is the first £20k being tax-free helping out earners above £100k? It helps out everyone at all income brackets being squeezed. 40% was the top rate of tax under the last Labour government. Now something like 8,000,000 people are in this tax band and most of...

Disagree, everyone is at 12k and increased that band in line with inflation would take that close to 20k. Immediately helping low earners. The issue also relates to welfare system because, with the tax-free limit so low, in some cases it costs people more to work longer hours. Some people...

So why continue with fiscal drag? Any new prospective government can quickly provide relief to a lot of people by raising the tax bands In line with inflation or at least a plan to lift tax bands up.

The Big Short is a great movie, great recommendation! On QE, I do think it’s time we call an end to it, or at least start to ween the economy off it. Brought in to prevent the scenarios you outlined, correct but as a short term measure rather than a 10+ year policy. My concern is that it’s...

Astonishing. The Sven team had: Neville Campbell Ferdinand Terry Ashley Cole Beckham Scholes Lampard Gerrard Owen Rooney There’s been other good players in and out the team in those years. There is no excuse for not getting past the quarter final with that cohort of players. That is failure...

Croatia had a better team than us in 2018, particularly in midfield which is where they won that game. Prime Modric and Rakitic against Lingard, Alli and Hendo… Nations League, it’s a glorified friendly so I don’t put too much on that. Italy is a 50:50 in my view, they were the in-form team and...

We weren’t tactically bad against France and didn’t lose to Italy, so it’s not as black and white as you make out.

Was the case throughout 1990-2018 too? Overturning failure for so many years isn’t an easy task, evidence by countless leading coaches failing as our national team coach.

It’s funny that there’s all these asterisks to justify your feelings toward Southgate. Just look at our previous results with the ‘golden generation’. 2010 we can second in the group with USA, Algeria and Slovenia and got battered to Germany. Tournament football is all about outcomes and 2020...

I’m pretty excited about our team and think the set up is pretty bang on. Perhaps Bellingham as an 8 might work, but it could limit his ability to operate in the final 3rd. You made a claim that the Czech team was ‘the worst in years’ when it clearly wasn’t, they beat the Netherlands and had...

The Czech team that gets to a quarter final in 2020 is worst than their 2016 when they finished last in their group with 1 point? Their last quarter final appearance was when they won a group of Greece, Russia and Poland and there was no Round of 16.

Guardiola has a lot more time to drill his players than any international team. His teams have tended to succeed at the highest level too so Guardiola isn’t the manager to follow here - he should’ve won more UCL’s with the teams he’s managed. Over a 38 game season, no one comes close to Pep but...

That Czech team KO’d Netherlands, this is truly bending your narrative to suit what you’re arguing here. Deschamps has been in charge of the French national team since 2012 and won one World Cup. Lost in the final v Portugal who finished 3rd in their group, won in 2018, 2020 got KO’d on...

Did we not go for it in Qatar? If Kane bags that penalty, we had momentum to win that game and with a semi against Morocco, every chance to make the final.

You’re not going to change your mind so I won’t try to change your mind. We’ve had easy runs in the past and bottled it. Southgate, even if this is his last tournament, has been a success for turning the tide of the national team. France, perhaps the most successful international team in the...

Even the best teams in world football are defensive. Coaches get less time with players, the nature of matches is different with less games and KO games being 1 leg. In any case, before we got knocked out in 2022 we were the top scorers in the tournament and set a record for England highest...