Matt Le Tissier accuses Gareth Southgate of being ‘woke’ in response to Nigel Farage
Matt Le Tissier accuses Gareth Southgate of being ‘woke’ in response to Nigel Farage with a clip of it rapidly going viral in a single day.
The former Southampton participant turned pundit and outspoken Twitter person Matt Le Tissier has laid into the England supervisor days earlier than the World Cup begins, as he insists that he wouldn’t need to take his recommendation on taking penalties.
The attacking midfielder, who transformed 47 of his 48 penalties with the Saints, admits to providing to share his knowledge, expertise and information, on penalties with the Three Lions squad’s up to now.
But he has mentioned that he in all probability had extra probability of truly being given the nod by earlier Three Lions managers than Southgate.
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Le Tissier informed GBNews: ‘I’ve on events up to now approaching World Cups and European Championships supplied my providers to go and coach the gamers, if they need some recommendation on taking penalties.
‘To be truthful, I imply, there have been in all probability different managers which will have been extra more likely to pay attention than the woke Mr Southgate.
‘I’d fairly fortunately take a penalty nonetheless, at my age. I actually loved the stress of these conditions.
‘I actually seemed ahead to taking penalties. And I believe one of many largest issues you possibly can have as a penalty-taker is your mindset going into it must be actually constructive.
‘And I imagine that was one of many largest the reason why my penalty report was good.’
Le Tissier additionally performed down England’s hopes of profitable the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, although did reveal he would like to see them win.
‘I believe not. As a lot as I’d love them to win the World Cup, I believe with my practical cap on I believe there are maybe higher groups than us.
‘However, you by no means know, soccer’s a humorous recreation.’
Earlier this yr, Matt Le Tissier took intention at Gary Lineker.
He additionally labelled him as “woke” for his political stances and questioned his “nice bloke” picture having beforehand been at odds with Lineker, who made headlines in 2021 for shutting him down in a debate over Covid, a subject which each ex-footballers have frequently weighed in on.
A staunch believer in “not following the crowd,” Le Tissier continued his battle in opposition to mainstream considering and given his ideas on Lineker whereas talking to the Times.
“I find it funny that he goes out of his way to criticise me for having an opinion that’s different to his,” he declared.
“I have followed Gary on social media for many years and a lot of the stuff I completely disagree with but I have never attacked him for it. But the other way round. He is meant to be the nice bloke, the woke Gary Lineker, nice and inclusive but he is the one going out of his way trying to dig me out.”
Lineker and his followers laughed at Le Tissier’s expense final September when Le Tiss questioned why Covid was handled in a different way to the flu.
“Why didn’t we ever try this hard to ‘defeat’ flu?” Le Tissier requested in one in all his many controversial tweets. “It has a similar fatality rate to ‘Covid’ and actually affects younger people more? Answers on a postcard.”
Gary then shut him down, quoting the Twitter put up and responding: “Yeah Matt, why didn’t someone come up with a flu vaccine?”
Le Tissier not too long ago eliminated himself as an envoy at Southampton again in April, shortly after stopping wanting apologising for spreading conspiracy theories about Russia’s bloodbath of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine.
He prompted backlash from his followers after showing to counsel that the media have lied in regards to the what occurred in japanese Europe.
He retweeted a put up from an account named Unity News Net, which claimed the scenes in Ukraine had been falsified by the media after ‘weapons of mass destruction’, ‘Covid’ and ‘the Hunter Biden laptop computer’. Le Tissier captioned his tweet ‘This’, with a finger-pointing emoji all the way down to the Unity News Net put up.
Taking to Twitter, the 53-year-old mentioned: ‘To all of the followers of sfc. I’ve determined to step apart from my position as an envoy of SFC. My views are my very own and all the time have been, and it’s vital to take this step at present to keep away from any confusion.
‘This doesn’t have an effect on my relationship with and love for my membership, and I’ll all the time stay a fan and supporter of all the pieces Saints. I can, nonetheless, see that on account of current occasions it’s vital to separate the work I imagine in from my relationship with the membership I’ve supported and performed for many of my life.
‘I’ll see you all at St Mary’s and can all the time do something I can to assist the membership.’
In response to his tweet about occasions in Ukraine, Le Tissier wrote: ‘Let me make one thing very clear I don’t advocate conflict in any approach form or kind I don’t advocate anybody taking lives of others and anybody who commits such acts needs to be handled accordingly, any atrocities depart devastating results on the households of the victims and us all.’
But a lot of the response despatched again to Le Tissier weren’t suggesting he was ever advocating or supporting the conflict in Ukraine.
His followers had been as a substitute dismayed that he was showing to query the legitimacy of the horrifying stories of Vladimir Putin’s forces slaughtering civilians and dumping their our bodies into mass graves.
SEE MORE: Paul Merson reveals the real reason behind Matt Le Tissier’s sacking by Sky Sports
Twitter customers reacted as Matt Le Tissier accuses Gareth Southgate of being ‘woke’ in response to Nigel Farage…
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