2026-10-13
3 分钟Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne.
Welcome to Desert Island Discs Postcards,
where we share funny, moving and memorable moments directly from our desert island with you every weekday.
Today's castaway is the former England manager, Gareth Southgate.
Although another World Cup dream might be in tatters, he says that football means so much to so many.
When he spoke to me in 2024,
he told me what it had felt like to put on the England shirt for the first time as a young player.
Are incredible it's not just what it means to you but there are all the people
that have worked with you along the way so of course your immediate family your coaches the junior
teams you played for the area you grew up in so we always made a point of telling the players
that when we presented them with a cap that was commemorating their first appearance.
And of course, you've got in your mind the history of the shirt and the nights
that you've watched and agonised and lived through when I was younger.
So I'm a huge patriot.
And even just putting the training kit on when I first was involved with the England squad,
I remember it was in my room, went to my room at Burnham Beaches.
Put the training kit on and then just looked at it in the mirror,
looked at the badge and yeah, it was quite a surreal moment.
The memories that you create as a footballer and of course as a football manager
too, the moments in those games, they stay with people for a lifetime, don't they?