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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

‘Notes slid under doors’: Southgate reveals England’s Traitors obsession

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate celebrates winning the team’s in-house version of the Traitors (not really). Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Sir Gareth Southgate has revealed the secret key to the strong bond forged by his England team: they spent their downtime playing The Traitors.

As the nation waits to see whether Joe Marler and company can catch the duplicitous Alan Carr and Cat Burns in the final of Celebrity Traitors , Southgate has said his squad would consistently organise their own version of the game at tournaments and claimed it was among the most effective team-building exercises during his eight years in charge of the national side.

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