News I'm an England fan and this is what I think Gareth Southgate must do next By James Mitchinson Published 15th Jul 2024, 10:23 BST Updated 15th Jul 2024, 10:33 BST Comment Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now Gareth Southgate has to go. For the good of England, the fortunes of the national team and for the mood of the nation, the Harrogate-based man must step aside. That’s what I expect to read in the chat forums, on social media and perhaps in one or two tabloid outlets that should know better, and, as an England fan of some two-score years I can understand the frustration.
The knee-jerk instinct to find the reason we cannot get over the winning line and to quickly blame Gareth Southgate . Thirty four years ago, sitting on my parents’ living room floor, as a boy that had no internet, no devices, no distractions, football was my everything, I cried until I fell asleep when the Germans dived their way to victory over England and Paul Gascoigne. I was utterly crestfallen in a way I can’t describe.
When Luciano Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma whispers its opening sweet nothings with my ears, honestly, if the moment is right it can bring me to my knees and that devastation, that disappointment and all of those emotions I’ve carried around with me ever since. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Sign up to our daily The Scarborough News Today newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with an ad-lite subsc.