Yawn. I keep hearing these generic, cliche ridden statements with no actual substance or responses to the arguments made. Still waiting for these NT’s with loads of world class footballers by the way.
2006= lots of world class players, but other national sides were a lot stronger then. Relative to now, this team is better.
People are just full of cliches and referring to past history when it comes to England and come up with the same boring shite as if there’s been no progression. We are ranked third in the world, lost a final on penalties and then a quarter final narrowly to the best squad in the world. A game we were dominant in.
This team consistently does well in tournaments. We’ve beaten Croatia, Germany, Italy (home and away), Spain etc in recent years and we have an extremely strong on paper squad. I’m not going to deny facts because people have some weird mental block/PTSD when it comes to admitting England are actually good.
Since Southgate took over England has won against the following teams in big tournaments:
Tunisia
Panama
Colombia (on penalties)
Sweden
Croatia (group stage)
Czech Republic
Germany
Ukraine
Denmark (a.e.t)
Iran
Wales
Senegal
Whenever they play against really decent teams they tend to fail miserably.