Southgate had at least some cause to celebrate last night Simon Cooper/PAThere was a mocked-up picture of Gareth Southgate as a matador in the Daily Mirror the other day. As tabloid mock-ups go, it certainly made a pleasant change from the days of Graham Taylor as a turnip, though it also called to mind a memorable line from House of Cards, in which the Machiavellian figure of President Underwood remarked that there are “two types of vice-presidents: doormats and matadors.”If there has been a popular perception of Southgate as a doormat, ready to be walked all over by the FA hierarchy and club managers alike, he has so far done a decent job of showing he is tougher than his polite demeanour suggests. For years, for the best part of five miserable decades, England have…

Source: The Times November 16, 2016 00:05 UTC