Definitely the latter. He’s got to two major tournament semi finals but only played 2 major footballing nations. They lost to Belgium and beat Germany.
it’s amazing how easy their passage has been at both tournaments. Looks like he’s going to make a final at Wembley as well…
Euro2008 - McClaren didn't even qualify for the tournament
WC2010 - Capello barely qualified 2nd from an easy group, then got trashed by Germany
Euro2012 - Hodgson lost in penalties to Italy in 1/4 finals
WC2014 - England finished dead last in their group with 1 point in 3 games
Euro2016 - exited the tournament in 1/8 finals against Iceland
None of the managers between SGE and Southgate had managed to win a single knockout tie in those 5 tournaments, the only time they looked like a semi-decent team was 2012. Its easy to downplay the opponents they overcame in 2018 and now, but England is like Inter, winning with them is twice as hard because the environment is retarded, Southgate definitely has done an impressive job there. They're boring but at least they're not embarrassing.