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Dear England
  • Published: 6 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529958294
  • Imprint: Century
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $65.00

Dear England

Lessons in Leadership

  • Gareth Southgate
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6 Nov 2025
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6 Nov 2025
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6 Dec 2025
Hardback
6 Dec 2025
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The most successful England men’s football manager in 50 years shares his thoughts and leadership secrets from life in charge

A major new book on leadership by former England manager Gareth Southgate

During his eight years at England, in one of the highest profile roles in the country, Southgate forged a unique management style, combining calm empathy with mental resilience, emotional intelligence and strong accountability.

His leadership at England propelled the national team to its most sustained success in fifty years, reaching the 2018 FIFA World Cup Semi Final and the UEFA Euro 2020 and 2024 Finals. In the process, Southgate revitalised and reshaped the national team's footballing identity.

Southgate’s book draws on the defining moments that shaped his leadership style, principles that informed his decisions, and the resilience that enabled him to perform under the most intense public scrutiny.

This is a book that transcends football providing modern day leadership lessons that can apply to any individual, team or organisation.
  • Published: 6 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529958294
  • Imprint: Century
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $65.00
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Praise for Dear England

‘Compelling, entertaining . . . Southgate articulated a moral vision that was beyond anything attempted by a generation of British politicians. ’

Guardian

‘A tremendous book’

Chris Evans

‘What is remarkable is the insight it offers into Southgate’s psychology and motivation: what sustained him through the darkest times and enabled him to become an exemplary leader’

The Times

'Southgate saw a bigger picture ... Dear England feels like the testament of a man who has been there'

i Paper

‘You are left with an understanding of a man who has unusual personal strengths: that emotional intelligence, that integrity which underpinned so much of what he did, the courage to make decisions and the resilience required to stand by them.'

Sunday Times Magazine

‘A beautiful book … I really recommend it’

Rory Stewart

‘A leadership manual’

Alastair Campbell