Gareth Southgate

You might as well come because you never know.

We might actually have an incredible night that will be.

So, again, you've got to manage the things that you're in control of.

I don't want to be worrying about I've got to play.

I can't be worrying about those other things.

So I had to manage that.

you know there's always a bit of we've got brilliant i have brilliant people that look after me that would have helped my family with their travel and everything else but small part of you would have still been saying yeah hope they're all right i don't know who's who's sitting around them and what are they saying you know they're so yeah we we avoided that issue did they know you were finishing the job after the tournament

Yeah, I did have that conversation with them because I had to reassure them, look, I'm reassuring them, I'm fine.

They're at home, they're reading things, they're watching television, they're listening because they're not as experienced as I am at closing those things off.

So they're thinking, blimey, is Dad all right?

In a rare moment of worrying about Dad.

So, but...

So I'm thinking, no, no, no, look, I know where we are.

If it ends on Wednesday, we've had an amazing journey.

I don't want to go.

Slovakia, first knockout game or whatever it is.

I don't want it to finish on Wednesday, but if it does, we'll have to deal with it, but I'm fine.

Okay, we're on to the next one.

We're on to the next one.

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