When Gareth Southgate pulled up a chair for his briefing with the press at the Grove hotel in Hertfordshire, it was roughly 48 hours after you-know-what but, to no great surprise, the issue continued to dominate.
A little earlier in a different room, the England manager had been peppered with questions from the broadcast media about the whys and wherefores of his decision to drop Raheem Sterling for the Euro 2020 qualifier against Montenegro at Wembley on Thursday night. It was about to be a similar story with the newspapers.
Written by David Hytner
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/nov/13/gareth-southgate-england-raheem-sterling under the title “Gareth Southgate opens up on ‘lonely’ England job in shadow of Sterling row”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
