A new play by mrJamesGraham about Gareth Southgate is a joke-filled tale of fear and how to face it
six years managing the England football team, Gareth Southgate has come, willingly or not, to represent a certain kind of Englishness. It’s not a kind many would once have associatedand accepting of racial and social diversity. On it, it doesn’t expect victory as a birthright, yet is quietly self-confident. Mr Southgate’s team has won no trophies, but has come closer than at any time since he was playing for it in the 1990s.
Here the laughs begin, with Sean Gilder’s bumptious “Big Sam” followed by quick turns from predecessors who tried, failed and were pilloried: Sven-Goran Eriksson , Fabio Capello and Graham Taylor . Southgate’s new methods mystify his bosses at theand the fictitious dressing-room staff that he inherits . He embarks on a disquisition on black holes. Most shocking, he appoints a psychologist, Pippa Grange , to the support team.
As you might expect with a play by Mr Graham , politics isn’t far away. Fear can “force us to make poor decisions,” remarks Grange. “As people, institutions…countries, even.” Whatever could she mean? Slightly incongruously, successive failed prime ministers later appear, to boot figurative penalties over the crossbar.
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