Beard Liberation Front
7th July
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Southgate & Kane Beard Power key to England challenge to Denmark
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that Beard Power, as displayed by England football manager Gareth Southgate and captain Harry Kane is likely to play a key role in determining whether England can beat Denmark and get to meet Italy in the Sunday’s final of the European football Championships
Calls in the Guardian for England football manager Gareth Southgate to shave his beard off 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, The combination of Southgate & Kane’s Beard Power could be crucial in the semi-final if it is appropriately deployed. 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
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
England to win by a whisker.