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Gareth Southgate Needs to Accept That England Need New Centre-Backs – Specifically Fikayo Tomori

Flashback to the summer of 2018, and England's centre-backs were stealing headlines for their ability to win headers (as if the game of football isn't set up for them to do that.)

They were this elite group of defenders who were ready to take on the world.

Now, here we are in 2019, and they can't defend. We watched Harry Maguire and Michael Keane somehow allow Kosovo to fire three goals past them, and then the duo put on another defensive horror show on Friday against the Czech Republic. It's time for Gareth Southgate to open his eyes and realise that he needs to do something different defensively.