Exposing a number of the frailties many had begun to suspect within Argentina's squad, Croatia booked their place in the last-16 of the World Cup with a convincing 3-0 win tonight. With a final destination of who is at fault yet to be decided, Tim Sherwood has gone all in on one man; the Argentina manager, Jorge Sampaoli.

Marching furious up and down the touchline throughout the first-half, as Argentina began to flounder, Sampaoli's resilience faded also. Roundly criticised for his apparent mis-management of the players at his disposal, Argentina's inability to get the best out of Lionel Messi will also go down as a black mark against his name.

Sherwood, however, was preoccupied with his own aesthetic qualms. Namely, Sampaoli's clothes and tattoos:

If they'd won the game we'd say his appearance on the touchline doesn't matter ... [but] he is a manger of a national team, standing there with his t-shirt and tattoos all over him ... I mean, listen, I might be old-fashioned, but I don't think a manager should look like that.

Sampaoli's tattoos did become a topic of great interest when the Argentina boss whipped off his blazer during the second-half.

Jorge Sampaoli has tattoo sleeves. Of course he does. #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/yYxxu0nUeU — Kevin Blundell (@kevin_blundell) June 21, 2018


Speaking on the South African broadcaster, Super Sport, Sherwood proceeded to say that Sampaoli "looked like he was going to fight in a pub with them tattoos. ... His team mirrored their manager - scruffy."

The reaction to Sherwood - and his co-pundit, Andy Townsend - has largely been a negative one, however.

Tim Sherwood on Jorge Sampaoli's dress sense: 'It looked like he was just going to have a fight in a pub. I'm not being funny, if the association are looking at that they can't be proud.'

If only Sampaoli had worn a gilet...#ARG #CRO #WorldCup — Duncan Castles (@DuncanCastles) June 21, 2018


Tim Sherwood 😂😂😂 — Chad Kelly-Klate (@CKlatey) June 21, 2018

Who put Tim Sherwood on TV? — Sawyerr (@MrSawyerr) June 21, 2018

Can Tim Sherwood fuck off. What does having tats have to do with good man management. 😂 — Segun Agbaje (@slick_shegs) June 21, 2018

So, according to to Tim Sherwood, coaches should have a certain look? WTF? — Leutloela Thabo Lechesa (@ltlechesa) June 21, 2018