Dear England: 'feelgood' Gareth Southgate play reviewed by a sports coaching expert

Dear England, a play about football manager Gareth Southgate, immaculately encapsulates the light and dark sides of the game.

At the start of the play – which recently transferred to the Prince Edward Theatre – Southgate watches his earlier self missing the crucial penalty against Germany that sent the men’s England team crashing out of the Uefa Euro tournament in 1996. It’s an old wound that refuses to heal.

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