England boss Gareth Southgate teases early Ukraine team news with Paul Gascoigne message
Gareth Southgate has warned his players that 2021 holds no place for Gazza-style tears as his uncompromising England push on for European Championship glory. Paul Gascoigne welling up and Gary Lineker pointing it out to Sir Bobby Robson is one of the most enduring images of English football.
The young Geordie was distraught in the 1990 World Cup semi-final against Germany at picking up a second yellow card in the tournament which would have ruled him out of the final.
That, of course, never happened – so Southgate refuses to compromise his team selection against Ukraine by protecting the players already on a booking and in danger of missing out on a Wembley return of the semi-finals.
“I, too, was on a yellow card going into that Euro 96 semi-final with Germany,” Southgate recalled. “ So you are aware of it as a player.
“You have these situations in your career when you still have to be committed to the game, avoid unnecessary yellows if you can, but accept that you might mistime something.
“That’s the reality. You can’t be thinking of what’s next.
