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Sadly, I think I genuinely would.

Depends what everyone's benchmark is I suppose.

Bought a vacuum cleaner for the same reason.... same outcome. Sucked worse than the team.

That has just gone into number 3 of the most annoying puns or play on words on this forum.... sitting behind ‘Brenda’ in front of ‘Spuds’ but number 1 by miles is still ’Chelski‘

I wasn’t aware of that. Pleased you mentioned it!

Plus it mentions nothing about possible release clauses or other 'terms'...

Exactly. In fact I was saying exactly the same thing to a mate the other day.

I think he has been the right man to bring in at the right time to oversee a culture change and succession planning in many aspects of the national set up. Lots of businesses do things like this with growth managers but are not employed to run a company long term. Southgate has done a lot of good things but I feel he is now out of his depth tactically and in man management to take England forward to any decent level of success.

Have just copied this and pasted it into a text for some friends as I loved it. You won’t get credited but just know that plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery

It’s a bloody conspiracy. So obvious that the message from the FA is ‘Play for the ‘big’ clubs and you’ll get in the England starting 11’ it’s so utterly disgraceful that the Ox walks back in. Winks isn’t even a starter for Spurs. Surprise Maguire is now almost now the first name on the team sheet when at Leicester he was ‘in the mix’ the whole thing is the FA trying to control the cash cow by rewarding players to move to protect the showcase teams who earn the overseas marketing rights. Makes me sick. Southgate is a bloody stooge and a spineless company man.

Have it

I thought Trevor Benjamin and Ade Akinbiyi were going to go in and form the most potent strike force we ever had at the club...

I would argue that thankfully, this is now an obsolete phrase.

Some of the comments in this thread beggars belief. Years of wanting Instant success has resulted in the total demise of England as a brand off the field and a and team on it. Southgate, albeit not the most astute coach understands the big picture and clearly his remit is to unpick the disasterous succession of failed regimes and create a cohesive pathway and style of play that can adapt for future players and teams. If he wins a trophy in the short term that is a bonus. The WC semi was a false dawn but showed that his man management skills are more important than his tactical ones. If he can blend the undoubted talent coming through with what appears to be a great culture then success on the pitch will be a by product for him and any other manager who takes over. Our role as fans is to support this bold stance, get behind them and stop putting the fear of god into young players to express themselves and managers into selecting them.

I think baby steps are largely all we can realistically manage to ensure that progress is sustainable and we don’t get amazing highs followed by awful lows. CBT was really good. I have 3 more sessions, 2 hours each one over the next 3 weeks and then I’ll go from there. Learning about the concept of flight or fight and applying it to anxiety was very revealing to me. I will share stuff once I get more of a handle on it. Keep going everyone. @HowardsBulletHeader Well done for chatting, your comments about anonymity on here mirror mine. That this is such a remarkable forum that allows us to talk to strangers without fear of judgement (and amongst fellow foxes fans!!) has been such a release for me to be able to cope. My CBT and Able Futures work is really helping me understand what my triggers are and how to not treat myself like utter shit. As ever if anyone ever wants to DM please do.