When Gareth Southgate resigned the day after the Euro 2024 final, the Football Association had a huge task ahead of it: to replace England’s greatest manager of the modern era, the man who had redefined the role.
It was not a position it ever wanted to be in. The hope had been that if England had beaten Spain in Berlin, Southgate could have been persuaded to go on another two years. But with Southgate leaving, the FA’s CEO Mark Bullingham and technical director John McDermott had no choice but to look elsewhere.
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Three months later, Bullingham was sat in Wembley Stadium’s media room, with McDermott watching on a few yards away.
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