Sing his name to the heavens. Offer him a senior role with a holistic, but hands-off view, of the England setup. If Keir Starmer and the rest are keen there have been far less worthy recipients of knighthoods than him.
The one thing Gareth Southgate shouldn't be afforded, however, is another crack at the whip as England manager. On July 16, Gareth Southgate announced he would be standing down as England manager, ending a near eight year tenure that had begun amid the wreckage of Euro 2016 defeat to Iceland and Sam Allardyce's sacking one game after his appointment. The English national team was at one of the lowest ebbs of its history.
Under Southgate they achieved feats that would have been unimaginable a few years earlier. Their first European Championships final. Their second, the first time England had reached the final match of a tournament on foreign soil.
A bond reforged between a nation and its obsession. It is a role that Southgate has performed with aplomb. Two finals decided in the dying moments promise to be the defining achievements of his tenure if he does depart -- against the Football Association's wishes -- once his contract expires at the end of the year.
What he has achieved is altogether more profound than that though. When the England men's team took to the field in the before times, a nation dreamed of simpler things. Please, don't let us be humiliated again.
Managers were incapable of negotiating basic concepts -- umbrellas, extra-marital affairs by the.
