Ryan Cainey

[Josh @joshpearson180]

Not chirping now you little prick

[Sam @SamCKx]

Thomas Tuchel’s record as England manager:

Played 22
Won 17
Drawn 2
Lost 3
Goals scored 51
Goals conceded 17
Win rate: 77.3%

After 22 matches, Gareth Southgate’s England record was:

Played 22
Won 12
Drawn 7
Lost 3
Win rate: 54.5%

Anyone who wants to sack Tuchel is utterly clueless.

[England @England]

Our #ThreeLions’ best finish at a @FIFAWorldCup since 1966 🥉

[Rilwan @Real1_balogun]

England — that's your best since ‘66. No matter what those pundits say, none of them ever got here. They never did. Generation on generation, time and again. They never got this far.

Enjoy it. It's something. Be humble.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Thomas Tuchel talks. No regrets but plenty of pain, a plea for perspective, insistence he will not quit and belief that players hit by intensity of schedule. It's draining men. 48 hours after defeat to Argentina, England’s embattled head coach tried to answer his critics when talking last night on arrival here in Miami in advance of today’s World Cup third-place play-off against France. Tuchel refused to say whether Atlanta was “the most painful experience” of his football career. “I don't know. I had a lot of painful ones and it wouldn't be the last one.”

Report from Miami. Main lines of questioning and TT answers…

RESPONSIBLE. Who was responsible for England dropping off and for the defeat? Players or coach? “Listen, if it's easier, if someone takes the blame, I take the blame. No problem. This is the deal that you signed up for, as I understand it.

"You have every right to do so (criticise), but I will not engage in this kind of game. For me, there's no one to blame. If you need someone to blame, I'll take the responsibility. I’m the head coach. If ‘drama’ is needed, if a blame game needs to be played, OK, we can do that, but I have the right to not engage with that.”

SCAR. The pain remained. It’s a scar. “It’s a shock in the beginning. It's becoming more, more painful every single day. It will be a scar for us. Unfortunately, not the first one, and very likely, not the last one. This is what it is in high-level sports. We have to live with this. It’s our pain, my pain, the players’ pain, we feel the most pain of all. It is our scar that we carry. We have to live with this defeat, not the critics, not the experts, not our family members who suffer with us, and want only the best for us, but it's basically us.”

NO REGRETS. Any regrets on his defensive substitutions when England were 1-0 up against Argentina? “I don't regret my decisions, because I felt that we become too passive, the momentum switches and I try to help my team. I took several decisions, trusting my instinct, my intuition, my experience, my trust in my competitiveness, and I took the decision to help the team and get the results.

"We didn't get the result. So I take the responsibility for all these decisions. But the decisions are made under stress, the decisions are made in-game. I would regret if I didn't help, I would regret if we didn't react. But I have no regrets over the decisions.”

PERSPECTIVE. A plea for perspective. “It's not so long ago that we were in front of 1000s and 1000s of fans in America, singing Wonderwall, right? What these players built in the last six-and-a-half weeks was just on the highest level in terms of togetherness, in terms of skill. This represents me and my values. We have to take the next step and play better football under pressure of the football in tournaments. We have another level to reach.

“Maybe it's worth to put it into context. We lost the first official match together since 14 matches. We played in the semi-final against the world champions. We were (at) 85 minutes, 1-0 up. We played against the best player in the world. We are one of the top-four nations. France, Spain and Argentina expect to win the title. We were hoping, we would dream. We are not there yet. There is still a gap to close. And this is what we will do.”

REACTION. What will England’s reaction be, starting against France? “I am competitive. Every player is competitive. We will have a reaction, and it starts from tomorrow. We will not stop chasing, hunting, challenging. If we win, we (England) have the best results of the World Cups in 60 years. That's the perspective, yes. We will show that the mentality is real, the spirit is real, and the togetherness that we have built is not to be questioned."

PASSIVE. So what went wrong against Argentina? “We became too passive in the last 30 minutes. We could not get hold of the ball, we could not find duels anymore. Argentina had a lot of offensive changes and a lot of offensive positions. They were chasing a goal, the substitutes became more and more offensive. We could not stop the crosses and we could not stop the runners into the box. Argentina found another gear, another momentum, another belief. They built something over several years (together).”

THREAT. His response to the growing Argentina threat? “We decided to play a back-five to have more width, (and) closer to the (Argentina) guys who cross. We did excellent after some minutes. We just became too passive, and Argentina found another gear.”

SAKA. Why didn’t Bukayo Saka play against Argentina. “We decided for a more physical approach with Morgan Rogers. I felt like after the game against Norway, Morgan has something special in him. I'm glad he proved to us right with his assist (for Anthony Gordon’s goal).”

DRAINED. Did England suffer a loss of intensity because their players were drained? “Even if we don't want to admit it, because it always feels like an excuse, I feel the game with 10 men in Mexico, the altitude, the travelling, we lost a complete night of sleep, and the game in the heat against Norway and in extra time cost us more than we maybe thought. The players gave everything physically every single match. If you see the intensity drop there must be a reason for it because the motivation was through the roof. We could not reach these kind of intensities.”

BACKING. Tuchel enjoys FA backing, and he wants to stay on. “I can never change my thinking if I would like to carry on.” And so to the game with France. “There will be changes (to the line-up).” #FRAENG #ENG #FIFAWorldCup

[Bristol Manor Farm @ManorFarmFC]

𝗥𝗬𝗔𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗦

We’re delighted to confirm that Ryan Cainey will remain a Farmer for the 2026/27 season

Joining in October, Cainey played a key role in our strong end to the campaign. We look forward to seeing him back in a Farm shirt next season

#UpTheFarm

[Gabriel Sutton @GabSutton]

I'm only interested in getting behind Thomas Tuchel and the lads now.

We all have our opinions, and everyone's entitled to that, but at the end of the day Thomas has been coaching for 26 years, and managing at the highest level for 11 of those.

I reckon if you can manage Dortmund, PSG, Chelsea and Bayern Munich and win 11 honours, from a coaching career that started from scratch, you're probably quite good and might have a rough idea of all the ingredients you need to succeed at the highest level.

After all, you're not just picking the best 26 players, you're also picking a group of men that have all the characteristics to last the course over a month in a real endurance test from all sorts of angles.

I trust wholeheartedly that there's been an extremely advanced and detailed thought process that's gone into the decision-making, as if that needs to be said.

Our job as a nation now is to bring some positivity to the management and to the team.

Come on England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#England | #ThreeLions

[Ryan Cainey @Ryan_Cainey]

@ManorFarmFC All the best flat foot🤝❤️

[Joey Barton 🇬🇧 @Joey7Barton]

Feel for Darrell and his staff.

This idea that changing one man fixes deep structural problems is a myth.

Progress only comes when the whole club is aligned and properly supported from the top.

Without that, failure is inevitable.

🫡

[Ryan Cainey @Ryan_Cainey]

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[Ryan Cainey @Ryan_Cainey]

@TauntonTownFC Go smash it mate💙👊

[Matthew Spiller @MatthewSpiller]

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