England boss Gareth Southgate vows to ‘keep grinding’ despite personal criticism
6 months ago

England boss Gareth Southgate vows to ‘keep grinding’ despite personal criticism

The Independent  

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. So, we’ll keep grinding, we’ll keep fighting, and we’ll keep enjoying this journey.” England now take on the Netherlands in Wednesday’s Signal Iduna Park semi-final looking to make back-to-back European Championship finals and ultimately go one better than three years ago. Put to him that England, like fellow semi-finalists France, have not been “easy on the eye”, he retorted: “Well, I’m sorry for that, but our intention is always to play well with the ball. Talk of easy runs at this edition and the last one three years ago rankles with Southgate, who hit back at a reporter who began listing England’s so-called lesser Euros opponents. It had about eight Champions League winners in, yeah?” Once the reporter stood his ground and ended his lengthy question, Southgate said: “Are you sure you’re not English?

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