Southgate quality is a trump card

FOR all the talk about the myriad facets needed to be a successful manager of an elite football team, one quality trumps all others.

- ANDY DUNN

Get the best out of the players. Simple as. If you get the very best out of what is at your disposal, you will make a decent fist of things.

As England manager, Gareth Southgate was many things. A good communicator, a Football Association man, to the blazer born. He was a diplomat, squeaky-clean and ruffled few feathers.