What he is, however, is a good man, because he's dead straight, and he's responsible and he's sensible and he thinks about the picture wider than his own. Southgate is, quite simply, the best thing to happen to English football in decades. He's got so much more right than he's got wrong. 'In any team there's a group that drive and I don't think you can underestimate their importance,' Southgate said. Sometimes there's a man, and he's just the man for his time and place.

Source: Daily Mail July 04, 2021 21:22 UTC