Beard Liberation Front
3rd July
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
Football’s Coming Home NOT going to the barbers. 96% back Southgate’s Beard Power
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that calls in the Guardian for England football manager Gareth Southgate to shave his beard off before Saturday’s European Championships quarter final have got a decisive thumbs down in a special BLF poll.
96% of those voting backed Gareth Southgate’s Beard Power with just 4% saying he should shave for victory.
Southgate is the first ever England football manager, going back to Walter Winterbottom in 1946, and 1966 aside, his clean shaven predecessors have not been notable for their significant success.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Gareth Southgate’s beard must stay. The clean shaven revisionists demand for him to shave completely ignore the reality that Beard Power is a key part of the England’s team’s strategy. The victory against Ukraine underlines how important Southgate’s approach is.
Guardian 2nd July 2021
What a shave! Must Gareth Southgate’s beard go for England to win Euro 2020?
While agreeing wholeheartedly with Keith Flett’s Marxist analysis of the England football team’s prospects (Letters, 30 June), I cannot help noting that no bearded manager has ever led England to success in an international football tournament. Perhaps a barber might offer advice?
Richard Loder
Manchester
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