A new production at the National Theatre explores the revitalising impact of the England men's football team manager
There are many things Gareth Southgate is. An unexpectedly decent manager of the England men’s football team; a considered, measured thinker; a setter of unlikely menswear trends. One thing he is not — at least not yet — is a Shakespearean hero .
Nearly three decades earlier, Graham remembers watching, on a small TV in the dining hall of Ashfield Comprehensive School in Nottinghamshire, where he’d just come off stage from playing Curley in a school production of, the moment that would overshadow much of Southgate’s playing career: his infamous, decisive miss in the penalty shootout against Germany in the semi-final of the 1996 European Championship.
One thing you could do to make Southgate an Olivier star is book an actual Olivier star to play him. When we meet,has an impressive creative team in place, including director Rupert Goold, set designs by Es Devlin, and a star-signing: in something of an inspired casting move, the lead role instar and swoony thesp royalty, Joseph Fiennes.
What [Southgate]’s doing on a personal level, but also national, is Shakepearean: he’s trying to retrieve the Grail With the current team, he thinks, there are signs that we’re entering remission. Yes, the players’ “larky YouTube videos” or Bukayo Saka’s TikTok spelling bees are charming, but more fundamentally, he points to the measured and mature way in which Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho responded to the racist abuse they received following their own penalty misses in Russia in 2018, when the ugliest side of English football hooliganism seemed to rise again .
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