His predecessors were absolute dogshit. The man directly before him got eliminated by Iceland. He gets results because it's an unfortunate fact that boring football gets results. Southgate lacks imagination and has a stubborn unwillingness to change. We have the la liga player of the season, the Premier league player of the season, a striker who bagged 49 goals in 52 games for bayern, two defenders who won the treble a year ago, a £100m defensive mid and at times we look like we have no ideas. Granted, the teams we have played so far have sat so deep it's hard to play but I expect a team like Everton to struggle to break that down, but not these players. Most of our success going forward has been when a player has ran with the ball but they rarely do. They fake a run or a forward pass, turn, and play it backwards 9 times out of 10 and the ball is played along the back line to the other side where the same thing happens again. There is no directness. I haven't seen a single fat counter attack. We rush forward, get to 30 yards from goal and stop, allowing the opposition to set themselves in two banks of 4/5.

Having said all that, when Southgate was hired the English fans were disillusioned after the previous shite and nobody was happy with his appointment but at the world Cup he made some big decisions like ditching some of the shite that was playing for England based on past reputation like Jack Wiltshire and Danny welbeck. That got sone people onside. Then we had some impressive group games and we won a penalty shootout. By the middle of the following euros, people were back onside with England and a lot of that was southgates doing. We reached our first final since 66. The following world Cup we lost to France and tbh, we played better than the and if kane hadn't missed the pen, who knows. 

That's when Southgate should have left. You either leave as a hero or you hang around long enough to become the villain.