With fewer games behind them and more in quick succession ahead, this is no time for a young squad to pause
Welcome back, then, to the age of constant revolution. Remind me. Where were we again?
There has been a temptation to see something comfortingly cyclical in England’s post-recess trip to Iceland on Saturday, first leg of the Nations League double-header. The horrors of Nice, June 2016, are still the founding peg of the Gareth Southgate era, a note of Gothic despair before the enlightenment.
Continue reading…With fewer games behind them and more in quick succession ahead, this is no time for a young squad to pauseWelcome back, then, to the age of constant revolution. Remind me. Where were we again? There has been a temptation to see something comfortingly cyclical in England’s post-recess trip to Iceland on Saturday, first leg of the Nations League double-header. The horrors of Nice, June 2016, are still the founding peg of the Gareth Southgate era, a note of Gothic despair before the enlightenment. Continue reading…
