England head coach’s latest book will ruffle more feathers, both in terms of its timing and his views on ‘entitled’ young players
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Imagine, for a moment, the
England Football manager, Gareth Southgate, has just published a book about leadership. And within its pages has revealed that players in England are victims of “the disease of entitlement” and that a high-profile squad member has been sent away for acting lessons because he is too “inward looking” and unlikely to become the national captain.
Then imagine him really picking up the pace: how the media “love to hate” England, how he prefers to work with assistant coaches he doesn’t necessarily like, how a named young international lacks discipline and how he himself needs two steam baths on a matchday to enable him to calm down and think clearly. All this, crucially, while still being paid to do the top
Job and with a career-shaping
World Cup around the corner. Let’s just say the feedback might be lively.