You may remember the time Gareth Southgate took the England team to train with the Royal Marines back in 2017. Many now view it as a key moment, winning hearts and minds of players previously burdened by England’s past, enabling them to reach semi-finals and finals of major competitions for the first time in a generation.
However, Raheem Sterling didn’t see it that way when he turned up to England’s end-of-season training at St George’s Park in June 2017, only for the Royal Marines to burst in and tell him to surrender his phone and get on a bus to the commando training centre at Lympstone.
