Gareth Southgate: It's more than just football
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
At times over the past few years this country has felt quite divided. But now, there's something we can all agree on: it's coming home. Who is the man changing English football?
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| 0:39.1 | It's been a difficult few years. Brexit, Black Lives Matter, an unfolding cultural |
| 0:46.3 | and a pandemic. At times, this country has felt alarmingly divided. |
| 0:53.4 | But now there's something we can all agree on. It's coming home. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm aware of the responsibility that the role comes with and we've got to get people smiling. |
| 1:06.9 | For many, England's success was not only a tribute to a remarkable team but also a remarkable |
| 1:14.1 | manager. So the standards of leaders in this country in the last couple of years has been poor. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm looking at that man there and that's everything a leader should be, respectful, humble, |
| 1:23.5 | tell the truth, genuine, he's fantastic ourselves. You really live unbelievable under the great job. |
| 1:46.8 | Never known England team that unified everybody in the country as much as this lot. |
| 1:51.3 | They're the full us, flawless in the way in which they go about things. We should be really proud |
| 1:56.8 | of them and our manager. This is a team, you know what? Actually, this is not a team. This is a family. |
| 2:01.7 | They're all together. We want to create memories for our nation and |
| 2:07.0 | it's the other day. The young ones think it's always like this. I've just said to tell Secker |
| 2:10.6 | a belling. I mean, it doesn't really work like this. You're listening to stories of our times |
| 2:15.1 | from the times and the Sunday times. I'm Manvina Rana. Today, Gareth Southgate. It's more than |
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