Joseph Fiennes opens up about Dear England: "I thought I was going to be in a Shakespeare or Chekhov play… then I was handed a script about Gareth Southgate!"

Dear England.

The job of England manager has often been labelled as a poison chalice by those in football and the media such is the weight of expectation placed on the role.

But for acclaimed stage and screen actor Joseph Fiennes the job of playing the England manager, first on stage and now on television, was quite the opposite.