Gareth Southgate finds what he’s looking for with England’s tireless tyros | Barney Ronay


Assured victory in Amsterdam is more proof that the coach’s plan of canny possession football is not just empty chatter

Last month Gareth Southgate did a long broadcast interview with the journalist Guillem Balagué. It kicked off with Balagué lobbing up a soft one, asking England’s manager what album he would choose to keep if he could listen to only one.

Rather than just doing the decent thing and saying, yeah, I listen to Drake in the car, Southgate went on to talk – for absolutely ages – about how lucky he was to have been in so many dressing rooms, to have been exposed to different kinds of music, different genres and cultures.

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