Gareth Southgate may be England’s greatest ever manager. So why the hate?

Gareth Southgate may be England’s greatest ever manager. So why the hate?

He created an environment in which players could flourish yet Gareth Southgate has become a lightning rod for rage

They have a word for it in German: der Briefcasetrainerparadigm, a phrase used to describe a person who is self-evidently good at what they do, but who is still universally regarded as a disaster.

OK, there is no such actual word word. The phrase “there’s a German word for it” is in itself a longstanding red flag, what the Germans call a Fake-Deutsche-Langeswort-Intro. But the concept of how exactly to define or put a scale on success feels very current as Gareth Southgate prepares his team to face Switzerland on Saturday evening in Düsseldorf.

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