RE Peter Rickaby's comments regarding the England manager Gareth Southgate and his performance as the England manager over the last eight years. Perhaps Mr Rickaby should read the poem by Rudyard Kipling before offering such a critical letter .

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If you can keep your head when all about you are loosing theirs and blaming it all on you / If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, then (at the conclusion of the poem) " you're a man my son" .

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* England football manager Gareth Southgate: '8 years in charge achieving nothing'

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Speaking as a not interested and don't give a monkeys football fan, people far more qualified than me and yourself must rate him very highly for him to keep the top job for eight years.

D M Deamer,

Penleys Grove Street,

Monkgate,

York

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