Thing is, Gonk should have changed it at HT in that final. He must have known Italy would come out 2nd half and make a go of it, because they had to. In that 2nd half, and even before their equaliser, everyone at home and in the stadium could see Italy were knocking on the door, and it was only a matter of time before they got a goal!
Everyone could see it, except the England manager! You know, the bloke that’s paid millions to make the right decisions on a football pitch, to analyse what is going wrong, and find a way to change things before everything goes tits up!
Gonk failed to do that, and once Italy equalised, it became a war of attrition where you just knew the Italians would grind us down and sit back, happy to take us to penalties! They did precisely that and Gonk’s infatuation with BLM clouded his judgment when it came to picking players to take the penalties! He wanted one, or more of the English black players to win the game for us, and he (and them) failed spectacularly! Gonk wanted to do good by them, but he ended up putting race relations back, when those black players were singled out by some racist football supporters, happy to use them as a scapegoat to make a dig at him, the players, the FA, and no doubt the BLM as well!
He was, as a player, useless and a loser, and that hasn’t changed one bit since he became a manager, and particularly, as England manager!