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Published 12:45 11 Dec 2022 GMT
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"The referee, I thought he had an absolute nightmare. He’s a joke of a referee, him. People will say it’s excuses, but he was just bad."The former Manchester United and England defended, who vowed pre-tournament to highlight issues of inequality and human rights abuses in Qatar, was left treading the same pundit path of blaming a referee for a team's woes. "That's not me blaming the referee for England going out, or anything," Neville insisted to Sky Sports, the morning after. "I just thought Pereira was absolutely awful... I thought he had a shocker." Neville not making excuses there but bringing up English-only examples of perceived injustices: https://twitter.com/SkyFootball/status/1601894773979320320
"England were on top at 1-1, yet there was still a strong argument for being proactive on the bench because before a ball was kicked it was striking how much more weaponry Southgate had on his bench compared to Didier Deschamps. This is not a point being made in retrospect. I wrote as much before the game and during it. It is difficult to shrug off the feeling that the power England possessed in the squad was not fully utilised when the moment of truth arrived."Carragher felt Marcus Rashford or Jack Grealish could have entered the fray, with Phil Foden moving into a more central role. "Instead, the substitutions happened after France went 2-1 up," he added. "If that sounds brutal on the manager and players, it is intended as much in praise of how well they played and how much potential they had to go further." Related articles:
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