Football Daily | England after Southgate: choose your own adventure
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With Gareth Southgate departing his role as England manager, who is next in the hot seat? Here are a few candidates a window into the imagined future of what could happen, should they get the job.
His Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar is disappointed to note that several players of the Spanish male national football team celebrated their European Cup win with chants of rancid remarks about Gibraltar” – Álvaro Morata and Rodri chanting “Gibraltar es español” (Gibraltar is Spanish”) spark inevitable controversy and a complaint to Uefa.
I can only guess at how excited Football Daily is getting at being able to (possibly) use the term ‘Frank Lampard’s England’” – Peter Storch [shudders – Football Daily Ed].
Am sure Football Daily Towers is in a pandemonium right now. Also good that the news did not drop at 4.58pm. But it is nice to see such a seamless transformation. All those who were baying for his blood yesterday are suddenly singing hymns in his honour today” – Krishnamoorthy V.
Alistair Moffat (yesterday’s letters) makes an excellent point about it not being 58 years of men’s hurt, but I think he’s wrong to suggest we should measure from England not winning the European Championships in 1968. England were still the holders of the World Cup then and would be until the finals in 1970. Surely the hurt – and it really did hurt – only started when we were controversially (of course) beaten by West Germany in the quarter-finals on 14 June 1970. An event which, if memory serves, was so cataclysmic that it also ended Terry Collier’s marriage (Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?). So I make that 54 years of hurt. Of course, in 1996 ‘30 years of hurt’ scans better than ‘26 years’ so I think we can allow artistic licence” – Jack Sisterson.
In life comes at you fast, especially in football, news … from ‘redemption arc nears completion’ to ‘in the coaching wilderness’ in less than three months. It’s a harsh business, this football malarkey” – Noble Francis.
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