Gareth Southgate

I will criticise you if you make a mistake, lose the ball and you don't chase back quickly.

But the actual process, especially for attacking players, because they've got to fail.

To beat somebody is hard.

The odds are in the favour of the defender.

So if I'm running at you, you're going to probably stop me because even by just putting a foot out, you might get lucky.

So forwards are going to fail because they've got to try things and it's harder.

But then you're waiting for one moment where they beat the defender, rip the cross in and bang, you win the game.

You've got to keep reinforcing that because their brain and all the noise around them is telling them the opposite.

I always talk about where does pressure come from?

It's the voice in your head, really.

It's how your voice is interpreting all the noise that's around you.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know why they do that.

Did you try to encourage them to not go on?

I do know why they do it, because there's a great method of communicating with people.

Yeah.

But...

Unless you're really strong, resilient, can rationalise things, then if you're starting to read all the comments underneath, I can't see how that's ever going to help performance.

Is anyone strong enough to deal with that?

Well, I'd say no, in reality, because the volume now of that debate is so intense.