Gareth Southgate
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We're top of the table on four points.
But the players have...
gone with this narrative that we should be ashamed of the performance, not thinking, hang on, this is tournament football.
The objective is to qualify from the group.
So, fellas, we're fine.
We've now two games gone.
We're 97% chance that we're through anyway, whatever happens in the third game.
So we've got to stay on track.
We've got to stay calm in a tournament.
You're in this bubble where...
you can be so affected by what's going on outside and lose the togetherness, lose the sense of direction that my job through that tournament was to keep reminding them, boom, hey, we've got to get better, by the way.
This is what we've got to do better.
We're not doing this well enough.
We're not...
But we're still here.
And regardless of everything else, we're showing resilience and we're showing spirit that we've developed over six, eight years through the big nights where we've won and the nights where we've lost.
So let's keep on track.
And they needed to see the leader as confident of where we're heading.
In those moments, everybody's looking at the leader.
How's he dealing with it?