Gareth Southgate
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The England football manager opens up to Fearne about his life in the public eye - and how he copes in such high pressure roles as player and now as coach.
Along the way they discuss star signs, the importance of getting back to nature and the most unusual things people have said to him in the past.
His new book, Anything is Possible: Be Brave, Be Kind and Follow Your Dreams is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place. It's a podcast and if this is your first podcast, |
| 0:07.2 | welcome, welcome. You couldn't have picked a better one to start with. Get your earphones in, |
| 0:12.4 | get your hands and feet busy and let's take a deep dive with one of the most admired people |
| 0:19.4 | in the public eye at the moment. It's England manager, Gareth Southgate. |
| 0:23.5 | You know, we'll get criticized for the way the team play and I have a choice. I either crumble |
| 0:29.4 | and think, oh, well, actually I'll walk away from it and somebody else can do it. Or you say, |
| 0:34.4 | no, actually this is a privilege to be in this position. We've got the opportunity to make history, |
| 0:39.6 | we've got the opportunity to do things that nobody's ever done. So I'm going to go for it. |
| 0:44.8 | Gareth's leadership is an inspiration not just to the young players he manages, but to many |
| 0:50.8 | others across the country. And not only that, he's an ambassador for the Prince's Trust and it's |
| 0:55.9 | in that role that he's written a book called Anything is Possible. Be brave, be kind and follow |
| 1:01.9 | your dreams. What a beautiful title. We're going to be delving into that together. I promise you. |
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