'England like Nigeria will remain trophyless' - Reactions as Southgate retains his job despite World Cup exit

… and England's miserable trophy drought shall continue... - Bamidele Johnson

Many years of trophy droughts. - Barnabas Oryina

With Southgate at the helm, England should forget about winning a major trophy in the near future !!! He’s not a winner. - Vincent Brian

With this man, England is going nowhere. - Paul Okafor

I can't stand England winning anything, this gives me hope they will continue to trophy drought. Good decision FA, other countries sack their managers at World Cup exists, why should the inventors of football follow such insignificant nations? - @Zubair56102136

I don't know why people are bashing England FA for sticking with him, with all the world class managers they've had in the past and the world class players yet they do not achieve what Gareth Southgate had achieved. - Ayodele Afolabi

With all this squad, England cannot reach the World Cup semi-finals? France that beat them had more than six first team players injured that couldn't make it to the World Cup.

This England FA is like Nigeria FA with the same feather. - Nkpa Daniel Ahamefula

What a shame? A chance to bow out gracefully and pass on the responsibility to another coach that would play attacking football and use the new and young talented players that we have available.

Same old, same story with current coaching staff. - Pius

Southgate has done a great job since taking over from the shambles that was Sven, Capello and Hodgson. But now was the right time for a world class manager to take England to the next level. - @jaspermather26

Until they stop overhyping English players in the Premier League and making them look so expensive e.g Harry [Maguire]. Their coach or manager will continue to have problems in selection and management. - Arisa Ugochukwu

I think the FA is right. Southgate may be average but if you take a look at the two foreign coaches that were there previously, you realise that they too didn't take England anywhere.

In fact, Southgate has achieved so much, Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello were not even able to take them to the Euro finals with better squads than what Southgate has had. - Gordon Bare

He is a good manager just that England do have bad luck when it comes to tournaments. - Ojih Joseph Okpanachi

This felt like a consolidation of worth he has for them. - Michael Eje

England is not winning anything with Southgate. They’ll end up like Belgium. Making waste of all these talents. - @EugyneAMenz

Everybody is resigning except this guy. Check England's performance prior to the World Cup and even at World Cup check the oppositions England faced in the group stage. - @thunderghlive

Big Sam would be a good choice - Evans Maguo

Good development. He [Southgate] should maintain the present squad. - Seun Santa Drogba Adekanmbi

Excellent news, Southgate is the best England manager in my lifetime. We need to stick with him. = Aneel Ahmed