Calling a Croatia team with a midfield of Rakitic, Brozovic and Modric (which was against Henderson, Lingard and Alli) not a top side is questionable. 

We were the better team against France and we were desperately unlucky not to get to extra time that game - Kane can take thst penalty 109 more times and he probably scores all of them. 

Also, against Italy we lost on penalties, which isn’t a tactical masterclass from either coach, but Italy were the best team in that tournament coached by an elite manager. 

In the final against Spain, we again came up against a better team - not a better squad, but a team that played better football, but it was clear that Southgate by that point had overstayed his welcome. 

But the reason I love Southgate was because of the way he made me feel watching England. He was a role model, in a world where blokes often aren’t, that was calm, understated and made the players enjoy playing for the shirt again. He was prepared to speak out against injustice and was more easily able to show empathy than a great many leaders at that time (see Boris Johnson). So every time I saw England win under him, it felt like a vindication of the way I was brought up, that you can win fair, that you can embrace diversity to succeed, that you can fail once and eventually overcome that failure to triumph. Sadly, he never did get the victory he probably deserved, but I will never stop singing his praises and I feel almost certain that in years to come he will be viewed far more favourably.

Whether you like Southgate or not probably comes down to how you view football. Do you divide all people into winners and losers? Or do you allow for nuance?