Adele and Man Utd Southgate’s Desert Island Discs

Gareth Southgate has revealed Desert Island Discs that he made the decision to leave his job as England manager before the end of Euro 2024.
The 54-year-old, who was a guest on the latest episode of the long-running programme. Chose Adele’s Someone Like You as one of the eight songs. He would take with him if cast away to a desert island, explaining to presenter Lauren Laverne that he “kept playing it towards the end of the last Euros” because “I knew I was going to be leaving”.
Southgate resigned as manager in July, two days. After England were beaten 2-1 by Spain in the Euro 2024 final.
He admitted that he had already decided before the final that it was “time for change on all sides”.
Speaking about the Adele track, Southgate said: “There were so many of the words in it that. Even if I hear it today, it relates to my relationship with England.”
The song, which appears on Adele’s 2011 album 21. Written from point view woman address her ex-partner.
“They’ve got to move on and you wish them the best. There are regrets. But there actually memories. That were made,” Southgate explain.
The former midfielder and defender managed his country for 102 games in eight years in charge and is the only manager bar 1966 World Cup ทางเข้า ufabet https://ufabet999.app winner Sir Alf Ramsey to lead the England men’s team into a major tournament final. Which he did twice at Euro 2020 and Euro 2024.
He told Desert Island Discs that he is “not against”. Doing something “totally different” and that his next career move “doesn’t have to be within coaching”.
“When you’re a coach and you’ve had one of the biggest jobs, how do you follow that up?” said Southgate.