Raheem Sterling and Gareth Southgate in conversation
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4.0 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today programme guest editor, the England and Manchester City player, Raheem Sterling wanted discuss what he, his team mates and the country had learned following the Euros this summer.
For his programme he sat down with England manager, Gareth Southgate, the man he credits for his transition from being a target for a hostile press to a young man now trying to be the role model which so many call on footballers to become. Nick Robinson travelled to St George’s Park to meet them both.
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| 0:04.8 | Well, Rahim, I guess I don't have to introduce you to Garrett Southgate, really, do I? |
| 0:08.9 | No. |
| 0:09.9 | How long, you knowed each other? |
| 0:12.5 | On the 21s? |
| 0:13.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:14.5 | It would have been, I think, 2013. |
| 0:20.1 | You'd have been just, because I watched, you'd have been just... |
| 0:23.6 | I watched you play Scotland in the August at Sheffield United, |
| 0:28.6 | and then I got the job in the September. |
| 0:30.6 | I think you were with the seniors for the September, |
| 0:34.6 | and then back with us only for a couple of games and then with Roy through |
| 0:39.8 | to the World Cup, I think, but you would maybe know that journey a bit better. |
| 0:44.7 | Yeah, I think so. I think we, I think it was, went away to Sweden. I think it was me and |
| 0:49.2 | me and Wolf at the time. I went to Sweden and then back with the 21s for a bit. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, we played in San Marino. |
| 0:57.2 | It was one of the games. |
| 0:58.4 | Revelle played. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.5 | Remember that? |
| 1:01.5 | Rahim won us a pen, got us up and running. |
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