FA confirms Gareth Southgate to stay on as England manager, to lead Three Lions at Euro 2024
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Updated 18/12/2022 at 12:08 GMT
Gareth Southgate will remain England manager and lead the Three Lions at Euro 2024, FA CEO Mark Bullingham has confirmed. “We are delighted to confirm that Gareth Southgate is continuing as England manager, and will lead our Euro 2024 campaign. Gareth and Steve Holland had always had our full support, and our planning for the Euros starts now,” read a statement.
England fans in Doha share disappointment in WC exit, but divided on Southgate future
The Football Association has confirmed that Gareth Southgate will stay on as England manager.
“We are delighted to confirm that Gareth Southgate is continuing as England manager, and will lead our Euro 2024 campaign,” said FA CEO Mark Bullingham.
“Gareth and Steve Holland had always had our full support, and our planning for the Euros starts now.”
Southgate had considered walking away under mounting criticism.
The Telegraph reported on Saturday night that the England manager had previously decided that he would step down from the role, regardless of his team’s performance in the Middle East.
He had thought that he was not sufficiently popular to remain in place.
However, England acquitted themselves well in Qatar before going out to France in the quarter-finals.
Southgate had become disappointed with the reception he got from press and fans after England underwhelmed in last year’s Nations League, with a low point coming when Hungary beat England 4-0.
In the wake of England's defeat to France at the World Cup, Southgate had said that he was conflicted over whether he would stay on as boss.
“I’ve found large parts of the last 18 months difficult,” Southgate said.
“For everything that I’ve loved about the last few weeks, I still have … how things have been for 18 months [in my mind]. What’s been said and what’s been written. The night at Wolves. There’s lots of things in my head that’s really conflicted at the moment.
"I don’t want to be four or five months down the line thinking, ‘I’ve made the wrong call.’ It’s too important for everybody to get that wrong.
“What I want to make sure, if it’s the right thing to stay, is that I’ve definitely got the energy to do that.
“When I’ve been through the past few tournaments, my emotions have been difficult to really think through properly in those following few weeks,” he added.
“It took so much energy out of you and you have so much going through your mind.
“I want to make the right decision either way because it has to be the right one to go again, or the right one not to go again, and I don’t think now is the time to make a decision like that. Neither are the next few days, really.”
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