I would disagree, we have very convincing performances. We deservedly beat Italy home and away this time round. It’s consistency we lack, for every good match there’s a 0-0 against the US around the corner.

We also looked awful prior to the World Cup then went and scored 6 in our first game.

Not sure about the grinding knockout wins? We put 4 on Ukraine and 3 on Senegal in the last two tournaments, Denmark and Colombia way back when have been the only grindy knockout wins with Southgate. You can legitimately criticize him without making stuff up.

These games didn:t matter a jot and Southgate was experimenting, I wouldn’t read much into it. We deservedly beat Italy home and away and qualified with relative ease from one of the toughest groups. Aside from Portugal and France I’d say we were as convincing as anyone.

Bradford making the League Cup final as a League 2 club is one that flies under the radar a bit.