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Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men review – Cuddly reassurance is favoured over deep analysis

Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men review – Cuddly reassurance is favoured over deep analysis

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter In eight years as England manager, Gareth Southgate took the team to two major international finals, as well as a World Cup semi. And yet his legacy as one of the national team’s most successful leaders remains contested. Was he too meek? Did he squander a generational chance to bring silverware back to Wembley? And was he too fixated with draining the macho atmosphere that has long surrounded the Three Lions? These questions will continue to spark debate, but it is the latter cause that provides inspiration for Sir Gareth as he tackles his first television documentary, BBC One’s Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men. Almost two years on from leaving his job as England manager, Southgate has a new mission: to improve outcomes for young men in society. “I’ve raised and highlighted a problem,” he says in this …

Labour Favoured To Win Next UK Election, Bookie Odds Show

Labour Favoured To Win Next UK Election, Bookie Odds Show

Labour has been installed as the bookies’ favourites to win the next general election after 18 months out in the cold. Keir Starmer’s party has been trailing in both the opinion polls and the betting odds for most of the prime minister’s time in office, but it looks like Labour are finally enjoying a stroke of luck. Star Sports have narrowed Labour’s odds of winning the most seats at the next general election to13/8 from 15/8 last week. Meanwhile Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has gone the other way as the party’s odds drifted from 13/8 to 15/8. William Kedjanyi, political betting analyst at Star Sports, said Labour have been going up in the market after ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe unveiled his rival party: Restore Britain. The right-wing party appears to have threatened Reform’s success, with 10/1 odds compared to 20/1 last week. They’re getting closer to the Greens, who sit at 17/2 and the Conservatives at 6/1 as betters try to predict who will be most popular at the next general election. Kedjanyi said: “It’s …