Gareth Southgate

I needed to reassure them that I was fine.

And it was easy for me to do that because I was in a good place.

So I wasn't having to act that.

You know, they would have known me.

They would sense where I was with everything.

You didn't feel lonely?

I had brilliant staff around me.

So you're never succeeding on your own.

You're constantly drawing on good people around you.

Yeah, leadership position, there are moments where you're the only, you know, you are the only one and you make decisions and you're left with your own thoughts.

But I wasn't in that camp thinking, oh, God, you know, I felt unbelievably well supported by good people.

Yeah, but I think this had been building for... I don't think this was a two, three-month thing.

I think we'd been four years of...

He's not picking the right team.

He's not playing the right way.

There's a better alternative out there.

So you are fighting it.

It wasn't like, okay, I'm getting a bit of criticism, I'm off.

I'm a bit more resilient than that.

There'd been this build-up for a long period.