Gareth Southgate

We had some key players that we lost just before the tournament, people like Maguire.

by the way people who we were criticized for years for playing but have now actually become really important part of how people view the team so then we're in the early stages of the competition the crowd are turning in the stadium and that's now starting to affect the team I felt you know we're back to the tension in an England game we're back to this sort of sense of entitlement and

probably once we've placed Lavinia again, we've finished the game, we haven't played well, but we've topped the group.

You go over to support the fans, they're lobbing beer at me.

You're kind of thinking, well, probably win or lose, it's probably the right time to go because further down the line, this is just going to ramp pressure on the team.

And also from a personal perspective, Lavinia,

The enjoyment from the wins was getting even shorter and shorter.

Even the semi-final against Holland, I made changes.

One sub sets up the other sub to score the winner.

It's about as good as it can get as a coach.

We're now in a second final, first final on foreign shores.

Celebrate on the pitch, do a ridiculous dad dance on the pitch.

I love watching the players celebrate in the dressing room for five minutes and then suddenly I thought, no, no, but I lived all this in the last Euros and three days later, you know, it was carnage.

So I was straight on to the next thing.

So even the semi-final win...

I've probably enjoyed it for eight, nine minutes.

And if the joy is gone, then you're going to find it hard to give that feeling that you need to give the players.

Probably any leader, it's a long period, eight years.

If you look at leaders in anything, I think people get, I've said in the book, incumbency, fatigue, or whatever they call it.

They're ready for change.