Image: Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Following the Uefa European football championship this summer, I have an update to my issue 13 article including Gareth Southgate’s performance as England manager.
In the England team’s entire history, it has only ever won 15 knockout games at major tournaments and Gareth Southgate was manager for 33.3% of those games.
England have made it to the semi-final stage of a major tournament five times (excluding the 1968 Euros, which consisted of four teams, so getting to the semi-final wasn’t much of an achievement). Southgate has been in charge for 40% of those.
England have reached the final of two major tournaments and Southgate is responsible for half of those. He is the best England manager ever (or at least in the top one, to paraphrase Brian Clough). In conclusion, I’d like to say…
Looking back on when we first met;
I cannot escape and I cannot forget,
Southgate, you’re the one; you still turn me on,
You can bring it home again.
(apologies to Atomic Kitten)
More from Chalkdust
That’s a Moiré
Donovan Young interferes in wave patterns
On the cover: Vhat? Vhere? Venn
Madeleine Hall takes a brief dive into the world’s favourite set-relationship-representation diagram.
Handbook of equations
Forgotten how to draw a log graph? No need to panic – here's a handy guide!
In conversation with Dominique Sleet
Ellen Jolley learns how to run a maths outreach programme
An odd card trick
Michael Wendl dissects some variants of the magic separation, a self-working card trick.
Pawns, puzzles, and proofs
Dimitrios Roxanas tells us why playing chess backwards is the new black (and white).