Gareth Southgate is a personable guy. This isn't simply my opinion – a recent YouGov poll found that 52 per cent of people have a favourable view of the England manager, with just 15 per cent unfavourable. That makes him more popular than every politician in Britain, though I concede that is something of a backhanded compliment.
We like Southgate because he's so darn likeable. He's the camp counsellor we all wish we had on the endless summer holidays of our youth, even if we actually spent all of August in our pyjamas, eating Frosties while watching re-runs of Premier League Years.
