England manager Gareth Southgate’s opening team selection of Euro 2020 offered up plenty of debating points and was not exactly met with unanimous approval in the court of public opinion.
Such is the knee-jerk and faintly ludicrous nature of the modern social media world, #southgateout was a Twitter trend almost as soon as England’s team-sheet landed – this is the fate of the manager who carries his country’s hopes into a major tournament.
The verdict after a fully deserved 1-0 win over Croatia that gave England, remarkably, a first opening game victory in their 10th Euros – a record that…
