Gareth Southgate

doing those things so players are the same you know if you're saying we want to have freedom and then a mistake happens on the pitch and I'm jumping up and down like John Cleese then they're gonna say well there is no hang on a minute he's talking about freedom but actually he's killing us or he's killing us in a meeting afterwards so and then there's the small habits and

So when I was a young coach at Middlesbrough, I let small things go.

I didn't pull up little cultural creep.

What sort of things would count as small cultural creeps?

Well, like putting the kit in the washbasin.

Kit's on the floor, okay?

So is it the kit man's job to pick your kit up off the floor?

Or actually are we going to have a standard where there's respect for the kit man?

All we're asking you to do is put your kit in the washbasin.

makes his life easier, shows a bit of respect for the kit.

I'm not going to fine people for doing it, but let's have those little things as accepted behaviours.

And when those small things are right, nobody actually notices them.

But when they start to disappear, you get what I call this creep of behaviours that slowly erodes.

And if you don't step on it, then slightly more important, timekeeping starts to suffer.

And before you know it, then on the field, you're taking those behaviours onto the field.

So I think it's about respect for the whole group, players, staff.

Everybody thinks about the 26 players, but...

you've probably got double that many staff now as well.

So everybody's got to be part of that.

Yeah, yeah.