Our 2nd string lost to their 2nd string in a game it wasn't necessary to win.

Message to team (guess): play well, don't bust a gut, enjoy yourself, no yellow cards, don't embarrass us.

All boxes ticked.

Southgate has started to change the culture of England's first team, with a focus on possession and changing the mentality i.e keeping a calm head, relaxed environment off the pitch etc

I think this says more about the dinosaurs previously employed by the FA, as Southgate isn't a great manager by any stretch of the imagination. He has good solid ideas on how to bring the national team forward but some of the specific decisions he has made haven't been spot on

It's just good to have an England team that the country can get behind for once, and a lot of that is down to Southgate

I think we look fantastic playing the ball out from the back.

This is the best I have seen from England have looked for years.

No hoof ball, we playing a good position based football but not forgetting things that we are good at like set pieces.

I'm actually excited watching England again and it's all down to Gareth.

Never did I think the very polite Gareth Southgate who i met in a Croydon night club over 20 years ago could actually lift the world cup.

Bring it home Gareth.

Steve Coppell, Terry Venables and co taught you well.

What Southgate has done is actually mould these players into a team, which no England manager has achieved since Robson at Italia 90. I heard Rio Ferdinand recently say that, at previous World Cups, he could sense that certain players of the so-called "golden generation" simply didn't really want to be there and I can well believe it.

Peaking with the 2010 World Cup, the England team was stuffed with arrogant, egotistical arseholes, managed by mercenaries and who, almost to a man, were thoroughly unlikeable. Compare that lot to this squad who are young, hungry and not too up themselves to refuse to be guided. Southgate has tapped into this and has instilled not only a degree of pride amongst the players but also a proper team spirit and the intelligence to work to a plan and stick with it. These things don't happen by accident - the person running the team has to take the credit for it.

England are no longer riding on the coat-tails of history - Southgate has actually got these lads believing and that can be like a twelfth man. As he said himself, 'go out there and make your own history'.

England in a World Cup semi final: that alone makes him the most effective England manager since Bobby Robson.

He deserves the knighthood for vomiting over Ron Noades - winning the World Cup would be secondary to that.

International management is, as you say, very different to club management. Southgate has taken to it and there's buy in and belief from the players. Winning six games in a world cup is not irrelevant and that's a bonkers theory, like being the world no1 in rankings is all well and good but if you can't win a trophy.