Earl Strickland, Alex Pagulayan, Mika Immonen, Thorsten Hohmann, and Kelly Fisher were amongst the names to have their campaigns cut short. I'm not blaming Bridgewater one little bit. It's not his fault that Melvin Gordon fumbled on the play and it's not his job to be making tackles. We've seen many quarterbacks get hurt trying to fly into tackles after interceptions, most recently Baker Mayfield of the Browns. When asked if he had been tempted to move back into club management prior to signing his new deal, Southgate said he would have found it "difficult to live with" if he had walked away from the national side with unfinished business. A Premier League role is undeniably attractive - but for Southgate, the opportunity to create history with England's exciting generation could not be refused.