• England face world champions Germany in friendly in Dortmund
Gareth Southgate takes charge of his first match since taking the England job full time insisting he is willing to instigate more “challenging conversations and difficult decisions” to put together a side capable of ending the cycle of national team disappointment.
Once described as too gentlemanly for top-level management, Southgate has already accelerated the phasing out of Wayne Rooney’s international career and telephoned Theo Walcott last week to tell one of the Premier League’s leading English scorers he was being left out because his England performances had not been up to scratch.
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