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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

Gareth Southgate hopes England can ‘bring happiness’ amid gloom at home

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate: ‘There’s the potential for another incredible journey and we want that to happen’. Photograph: Tolga Bozoğlu/EPA

As a nation shivers amid the December gloom and a mounting cost of living crisis, Gareth Southgate believes that his England team can lift the mood in their World Cup last 16 match against Senegal on Sunday night.

So far England have seesawed between the sublime and the stodgy in Qatar, but they have avoided defeat – something that the other big favourites, including Brazil, France, Spain and Argentina, have all failed to do.

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