36 h. ago Gareth Southgate makes major career change as Gary Lineker prediction comes true

Gareth Southgate is yet to return to football management since resigning as England manager last summer and has now made a significant change away from the sport

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51 h. ago Gareth Southgate makes dramatic 'change' after missing out on Man United job

Former England head coach Gareth Southgate departed the national team the day after the Three Lions lost the Euro 2024 final to Spain

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64 h. ago Gareth Southgate 'makes bold career change' as he lists new identity online

The former England manager has listed a new job online, wiping out his identity as 'football manager'. He stepped down from the Three Lions in July last year after losing the Euros final.

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8 d. ago Met Police PC sacked after text saying Harry Kane should die in a plane crash

PC Bowler has been sacked after a string of discriminatory messages including one aimed at Harry Kane

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1 week ago Education Secretary: More men needed in classrooms to be positive role models

Bridget Phillipson will speak alongside Dame Rachel de Souza at the commissioner’s inaugural Festival Of Childhood: Our Future, Our Voice.

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2 w. ago What Man United really thought of Brandon Williams: How club legends and bosses took to

Williams, 24, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving last week after crashing his car at 99mph 'with a balloon in his mouth' while accompanied by a young woman in August 2023.

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2 w. ago Sport must step up and be part of the social revolution to reach ‘lost boys’ | Cath Bishop

Gareth Southgate wants role models to offer a different path from toxic influencers. Do those in sport have the will to do so?Amid all the pressing problems of the day, one crisis has cut through: the acute need for greater support, care and steady role models for young men, addressed powerfully through the Netflix series Adolescence, explored in the Centre for Social Justice paper Lost Boys and discussed in parliament. Then came the BBC Richard Dimbleby lecture by the former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate, reinforcing the importance of belief and resilience for young people in a challenging world.Southgate continues to embody how sport and society can connect in a new way. The question now is whether the rest of sport – its leaders, coaches, athletes, volunteers and fans – stands ready to take up the cause and whether sport has the collective vision, will and competence to do so effectively. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Thomas Tuchel shows true colours with Jude Bellingham call Gareth Southgate kept ignoring

OPINION: While Thomas Tuchel's opening two England games taught us little, his initiative to make unpopular decisions was one major take away after he hooked Jude Bellingham against Latvia

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2 w. ago ‘Was this new age austerity always coming?’ Your spring statement questions answered by Andrew Grice

In this exclusive Q&A session, The Independent’s political commentator Andrew Grice tackles welfare cuts, taxation, and the economic challenges facing the UK

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2 w. ago Harry Redknapp secretly filmed making crude joke about England boss Thomas Tuchel being 'a German SPY' who has been 'sent over to f*** us up'

Speaking at a venue in London last week, Redknapp was discussing the appointment of Tuchel as England's head coach, and whether he was the right person to replace Gareth Southgate.

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2 w. ago 'Thomas Tuchel was right to slag Gareth Southgate off – England need his brutal honesty'

BRENT A GOB: It's an all-England affair as Harry takes aim as the criticism levelled at Thomas Tuchel over his anti-Southgate rhetoric, and as well at his Jordan Henderson and Kyle Walker call-ups

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3 w. ago Starmer: We cannot ‘shrug our shoulders’ at problem with boys and young men

The Prime Minister’s comments came after former England football manager Sir Gareth Southgate warned about ‘toxic’ influencers fuelling misogyny.

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3 w. ago Video games can’t escape their role in the radicalisation of young men | Keith Stuart

Those of us who spend our lives gaming can no longer deny knowledge that our online communities are awash with disturbing hate speech and violent rhetoricThere is a lot of attention on young men and toxic masculinity at the moment. It’s about time. The devastating Netflix drama Adolescence, about a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a girl after being radicalised by the online manosphere, has drawn attention to the problem through the sheer force of its brilliant writing and a blistering lead performance from teenager Owen Cooper. This week, former England football manager Gareth Southgate gave a speech about the state of boyhood in the UK, specifically about how young men, lacking moral mentors, are turning to gambling and video gaming, thereby disconnecting from society and immersing themselves in predominantly male online communities where misogyny and racism are often rife. There has been some kickback in the gaming press to the idea that games have provided a less-than-ideal ...

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3 w. ago You need to be uncomfortable – Declan Rice wants England spurred on by criticism

England are targeting next year’s World Cup to finally end their barren trophy run.

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3 w. ago Thomas Tuchel plans to keep England stars guessing after ditching Gareth Southgate tradition

England kickstarted the Thomas Tuchel reign with a 2-0 win over Albania at Wembley, but unlike under their previous manager, players had to wait before discovering who would feature

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3 w. ago Jordan Henderson: ‘I looked at how far it was to Berlin and I hired a van’

Recalled England midfielder discusses his last-minute dash, as a fan, to the Euro 2024 final – and his World Cup dreamJordan Henderson wanted to be part of it. He felt he deserved to be part of it. And so, despite the obstacles, he put in the hard yards to make it happen. It has been a theme of the Ajax midfielder’s career and it resonates once again with him back in the England squad, winning his 81st cap as a substitute in Thomas Tuchel’s first game as head coach – the 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Albania on Friday night. The more sideways take on it came last summer.Henderson was devastated to have been overlooked by Gareth Southgate for Euro 2024 in Germany, having been involved throughout qualification. The determining factor was the muscle injury he picked up last March, which sidelined him for the best part of two months and did not give him the time to get fully fit at the end of the domestic season. That was how Southgate sold it, anyway. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink sends England boss Thomas Tuchel message over Euro 2024 heartbreak

Former Chelsea frontman Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was previously part of Gareth Southgate's England coaching staff but departed his role last August prior to the appointment of Thomas Tuchel

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3 w. ago Rashford could be more important to Tuchel’s England than Palmer or Saka | Jonathan Wilson

One Harry Kane pass to his fellow forward in otherwise routine win over Albania gives a hint of how England could succeedOne of the problems of international football is that everybody is always asking the wrong question, which to an extent is built into the form. Qualifiers matter only in as much as they have to be negotiated. Friday’s win by England over Albania fell into a very familiar pattern. The brave new world of Thomas Tuchel turned out to look a lot like the faded old world of Gareth Southgate. England had lots of the ball, did not move it fast enough and won by a couple of goals. It does not matter. They could have won 10-0, 8-5 or 1-0 and it would mean almost nothing in terms of the winning of the World Cup.England want to win the World Cup next summer. They have a squad that should make them challengers. Barring pratfalls, there will come a point next year when they will play an Argentina or a Spain or a France, a team of equivalent or greater talent and, almost certain...

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3 w. ago Marcus Rashford and Phil Foden comments hint at major changes under Thomas Tuchel

Thomas Tuchel's immediate willingness to criticise performance of his big-name players points to a shift in culture under England manager after Gareth Southgate's fatherly reign

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3 w. ago Gareth Southgate nails his big lecture in a victory for competitive caring | Barney Ronay

Former England manager may not be right about everything but he remains a good man, fulfilling a role others have vacatedSay what you like, and the haters – we know this about the haters – will continue to hate, are in effect defined by their hating. But Gareth Southgate has now finally delivered on the biggest stage of all.This is of course a reference to the stage at Senate House library, venue for Big Gate’s big Dimbleby lecture, recorded in front of an audience of silent, rapt, nodding people, and broadcast this week on the BBC. This is what elite big-lecture managers do. They seize the moment. They shut out the noise. Gareth at the Dimbleby? Absolutely nailed it. Continue reading...

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