Global Agony & the Gareth Southgate Doctrine: How One Polite Englishman Became a Worldwide Metaphor for Hopeful Defeat
From the vantage point of a bar-stool in downtown Lagos, a taxi rank in Buenos Aires, and a noodle stall in Chengdu, the name Gareth Southgate still ricochets across the planet with the hollow ping of a ball skimming the crossbar. To most of humanity—those who regard football as either a periodic bout of mass…