Gareth Southgate has revealed a conversation with England team-mate Stuart Pearce was “invaluable” in helping him deal with his Euro 96 penalty miss.
Southgate, now the England manager, has spoken about how he felt responsible for ending the feelgood factor sweeping the nation as hopes grew that the Three Lions would secure a first major title in 30 years.
And he says talking about the miss with Pearce, who endured his own shoot-out agony at the 1990 World Cup, helped him immensely.
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Here’s the royal family trying to pretend to be the ordinary man
Love you! You are a great coach! Keep going! Big kiss¡ xxxxxxxxxooooooo
Gareth is truly amazing beautiful soul
Am not fans of England but like him as players he nice guy there no ones perfect in this worlds.
Get rid of Southgate, he’s a nice guy but too much of a lefty liberal, the last three penalty takes he chose was totally wrong, should have been sterling, grealish and Pickford
I am sorry you missed your penalty Gareth, as did England players against Italy in the final of Euro 2020, as its a game of
nervous and I do not put anyone down who miss penalties from any country, as I say this as an Italy fan and we have missed
penalties in both in World Cups and European Championships. This is football and there has to be a winner and a loser and I am afraid penalties are the only way to settle a drawn game. It takes bottle to come up and take a penalty and you hope it
goes in for you, as I have played football and scored and missed penalties in my day.
Why is Prince William stressing him out so much? He is not a criminal and this is not a police investigation
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Paul Ince should be more haunted by the thing than you, senior player with plenty of medals yet couldn't even watch. It was only the media who called him the guvnor and even they stopped after that.
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This aged like honey
That unelected Billionaire landowner seems like a good bloke. That Prince prick can fucking do 1 tho.
Bukayo in 25 years will be doing this but with Wills as King lol 😂😂
EURO 96 was the beginning of his redemption arc. Now he's done it. Love you Gareth
Imagine the feeling of disappointing a whole nation, I really hope he can get his redemption, I think we have all been fine with his miss, but it’s not easy to just accept that.
Misses a pentalty, Becomes The Greatest England Manager
Man, I remember watching Southgate’s penalty miss. All those years ago and it’s still one of those big football memories. He’s a nice guy and penalty shootouts are brutal
I can forgive your penalty miss.
I can’t forgive you making cash from it with Pizza Hut
Top, top guy Gareth Southgate. Speaks so eloquently and with such humility, understanding and wisdom. I'd love England to win something under his leadership.
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