Rick Edwards
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I think the legacy, I think you've got to look at the legacy of what Gareth Southgate went and did afterwards as well.
I'm not taking it purely from a football perspective.
England to get into the next two out of three finals, I think that's an incredible legacy from on the pitch stuff.
Of course, we've talked about the many good things that have happened off it, but I think there's a real genuine football legacy there.
And like what Dan said earlier on,
We're not used to England players being like the best.
I remember Gazza being the best in the world in 90, but I don't remember Harry Kane is arguably the best striker in the world.
But we're more conditioned to that a bit more now, certainly on the pitch.
But again, it goes back to the amazing, incredible leadership that Southgate did on and off the pitch throughout his time.
And I think I remember talking about walking out of stadiums or despondent.
I wasn't necessarily that despondent in Moscow.
Of course, I was gutted to a point.
I was fuming when I was walking down Wembley Way, but that was for different reasons.
But when walking out of Berlin, there was a real anger and discredit.
And even the next day in the following media articles and reaction, Gareth Southgate did some incredible things for England.
We made two finals, one semi-final.
He brought the country together in a way that hardly any leader...
has done in recent times and I really do think that there should be more respect put on his name and and I that's the legacy for me is that yeah good people can actually do well and and an honest man in a dishonest world succeeded