[Dirtycheat]

With Boateng unable to hold down a regular place Southgate's planning to skip a skipper at Boro

Originally Posted by Daily mail

Gareth Southgate is considering ditching the role of club captain at Middlesbrough.

With George Boateng unable to hold down a regular place, manager Southgate has turned to Jonathan Woodgate, Julio Arca and Emanuel Pogatetz to lead his team this season.

Arca was dropped following the FA Cup defeat to Cardiff and the captaincy was handed to Austria defender Pogatetz, who wants the job full-time next season, but Southgate said: "I've looked at other sporting teams who do not have one person nominated as captain and, in some cases, it seems to have worked well.

"I think it's more important that you have five or six leaders in your squad who are the tribal elders; who lead the dressing room and set the standards of what's expected.

"We have people in our dressing room who do that, whether they wear the armband or not. We have some excellent professionals whose approach to training and what they do away from the ground is spot on. That's why people like Mark Schwarzer and Stewart Downing have achieved what they have.

"Having a club captain might make things that happen at the club away from match days less complicated. Very often, people look to the captain as an easy get-out and use him to avoid taking responsibility themselves. They assume the captain will sort everything out so they don't have to."

With Boateng unable to hold down a regular place Southgate's planning to skip a skipper at Boro | the Daily Mail

See, this is all good until there is a situation which the captain has to deal with, but because you have no captain, it could cause conflict. This might also cause issues on the pitch, who is gunna toss a coin at the start of the match and talk to the referee?

Having several leaders is a good thing, as well as having several different oppinions but you naturally need a team leader, and if you dont chose one then one will naturally will emerge as the most dominant one.

I think southgate is just trying to avoid making a difficult decision and chosing a new captain instead of rotating between arca and boateng.

This reminds me a bit of arsenal, except they have a captain, who yes is very experienced but imo isnt captain material. Well, not as good as gilberto who is currently seen as not good enough to play. Its confusing.

[Anderson]

what happens next year when the FAs respect the referee campaign starts with only the captain being able to talk to the ref?

[dada]

Southgate will walk out on to the pitch and have a chat with the ref himself...

[funkdoctorspock]

I think it would be very wise for you to smarten up with your posts.

You've been warned. Again.