The Gareth Southgate-coached football team have their target set, they see it every day they are in St George’s Park. Southgate found late team talks disruptive as a player and that has stayed, expect more of that, better team bonding as compared to the club dominated cliques during the days of the Golden Generation, and of course the plan to not react to the outside noise.
Southgate has built a very likeable England team, one that is also quite talented with age on their side. And while they might be England’s best men’s football team for a while, are the rest who watch on so intently giving their best to be the best?
In 2017, English football exploded as the under-17s and under-20s won their respective World Cups, the under-18s won the Toulon tournament and the under-19s won the European Championship. From those squads there were Phil Foden, Jadon Sancho and Dominic Calvert-Lewin at the Euros.
Southgate’s been fundamental to England’s good fortunes, ironical, because for…