He is backed by the FA and has three strong tournament runs behind him but could this be his last tilt at international glory?
interview from L’Équipe bounced back to England on 14 May, it prompted a few phone calls between newspaper desks and their reporters. The England manager, preparing for Euro 2024 and under contract with the Football Association until December, had been asked the obligatory, inevitable question. Would this summer be his last shot at tournament glory with the team? Now we picked over his answer.
Southgate’s L’Équipe sit-down had an arresting quality and yet when it was pulled apart, the sense was consistent with what he has said for the past year or so. It was a variation only in semantic terms. Southgate was never going to veer off script, especially not this close to the tournament. For him, it is win or bust in Germany. Or very much in this territory.
The manager considered stepping down after the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, having been spooked by the venomous reaction to his team’sat Molineux in June of that year. He discussed with his assistant, Steve Holland, whether to announce the intention before the tournament; he did not want any negativity towards him to affect the players., which he probably felt through the media.
The more interesting question is what Southgate would do in the event of, say, another quarter- or semi-final exit. Would the external narrative be sufficiently adverse as to see him fall on his sword?
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