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Gareth Southgate Will Stay on With England Until the End of His Contract
Gareth Southgate will stay on as England boss until the end of his contract. The decision came a lot sooner than we expected it was, says Ronan Bennett. It surprised me that Gareth Southgate made the decision as quickly as he did and that's what changed here. I got a pretty clear hint several days ago though that Southgate before he left Qatar had a chat with a number of fringe England players and said to them but they were still very much part of his England plans going forward. And so to give him one more chance to go again in the euros in only 18 months time would have been regretful if he'd walked away now. He knows this thing seem
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