Gareth Southgate was not like other England managers. His eight-year tenure began in 2016 and, although no trophies were won, in taking England to two Euros finals (“one moment from immortality,” he sighs); a fourth place slot at one World Cup and a quarter final at another, he out-performed his predecessors. Maybe just as importantly, he was at the vanguard of a new, more compassionate culture in English football.

Southgate saw a bigger picture. He overturned perceptions of what an England manager could be . “It’s not ‘did we win?’ but ‘how did we go about our business?’”, he writes in Dear England, Lessons in Leadership. Nobody seems to have thought more deeply about what the job meant and how a football team and the values he attempted to inculcate – reduced toxicity, increased

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