Bristol Rovers manager Joey Barton believes Gareth Southgate should have resigned by now after another missed opportunity for England at the World Cup in Qatar.
England bowed out in the quarter-finals after a 2-1 defeat to holders France in which they can consider themselves the better side over the course of the 90 minutes, and would have sent the game to extra-time if not for Harry Kane’s missed penalty.
It marked a third tournament in charge of the Three Lions for Gareth Southgate in which they have reached the semi-finals, final and now last eight, but failed to get across the line with a deeply talented squad. Before the tournament Barton said that this World Cup would mark “the end of the cycle” for Southgate and foresaw an exit at the hands of France on the rationale that England would be unable to beat a genuinely elite team.
