Gareth Southgate has made young people like me proud to be English for the first time ✒️ GeorgeRSimms
Fifty of us crowded around the only phone with signal at our school prom to watch England win their first major tournament penalty shootout of my lifetime. The semi-final exit to Croatia ultimately felt like success dressed as failure.
More than that, he has salvaged our relationship with our country, temporarily unifying the decimated post-Brexit English identity one tournament at a time. This England squad are defined by togetherness, perseverance, and a modest yet self-assured innovative brilliance. Unlike many of, or the British politicians of today, they are neither selfish, arrogant nor petty.
“No matter what happens, I just hope that their parents, teachers and club managers will turn to them and say, ‘Look. That’s the way to represent your country. That’s what England is about. That is what’s possible.'” And England’s young people would likely be even more disaffected and downtrodden about their nation than they are today.
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