Here is my ‘Pause for Thought’ from BBC Radio 2 on Monday, 9th July 2018, ‘Blessing in Disguise.’
Who’d have thought Gareth Southgate would become a ‘blessing in disguise’: the Euro 96 penalty misser, once vilified and mocked as a failure, has now led England through a tense shoot out against Columbia, to become a waist-coated saint against Sweden! His past experience, passion, and cool head has turned fortunes around?