Gareth Southgate has made clear that there will not be another Baden-Baden as England move to finalise their base camp and training ground for the European Championship in Germany next summer.
When England last went to Germany for a major tournament – the 2006 World Cup – they stayed in the Black Forest spa resort of Baden-Baden and it became a media circus with the players’ wives, girlfriends and family members centre stage. The finals are remembered as much for the off-field chaos as England’s travails on it; Sven-Göran Eriksson’s team were knocked out by Portugal in the quarter-finals.
