Southgate believes that he and his players have a responsibility to the wider community to use their voicesGareth Southgate has told the bigots blighting football and society that they are on the “losing side” in a powerful address before the European Championship. The 50-year-old said that his England team were playing a meaningful role in challenging inequality and insisted that in the future children growing up would be “baffled by old attitudes and ways of thinking”. SponsoredWriting for the Players’ Tribune, the England manager — who said he had a responsibility in his role to not just “stick to football” — took to task the racists who have been targeting footballers with online abuse and insisted awareness around the issue meant that change was coming. Southgate did not directly discuss the debate which has surrounded the decision of his players to

Source: The Times June 08, 2021 16:03 UTC