Edin Terzic made Jude Bellingham captain but Gareth Southgate probably won’t. The England manager’s experience of leadership dates back long before the time when provided the nation with rather more moral guidance than seemed to come from Downing Street.
He captained each of his three clubs. He was given the Crystal Palace armband at just 22, though even that looks positively ancient when a teenage Bellingham was the Bundesliga’s youngest ever captain and was skippering Borussia Dortmund in the knockout stages of the Champions League, albeit because Marco Reus and Mats Hummels were not starting.
