Gareth Southgate is prepared to give England’s players the duty to take care of themselves at the World Cup in Russia, saying they won’t be dealt with like kids
“There is the environment we create – people take the lead from the leader,” he told reporters. “How I am around it, how relaxed I am in terms of them being given opportunities to go out of the hotel, to go sightseeing, just to escape the bubble. It can’t just be 24 hours a day football. OK, they might do a couple of things that get criticised on the back of that, but I have to be brave enough to say I am prepared for them to go into St Petersburg to sightsee or see families or whatever.”