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Fear and dribbling: A tale of UK footie

James Graham's football play 'Dear England' features Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southwood, and is screened by Cinema Nouveau in South Africa, this week.

AND …. it’s in! Joseph Fiennes is Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s stage play Dear England, currently being screened by Cinema Nouveau. Photograph courtesy IFC Center. WHAT IS IT to be a man in this world of crippling hyper-sensitivity and wokeness? The metaphors central to a sport which has traditionally defined all the values of male hegemony are front and central and joyfully politically…

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‘Dear England’ Review: When Soccer Success Becomes a Moral Victory

What makes a good leader? When the unassuming and softly spoken Gareth Southgate was appointed head coach of the England men’s soccer team in 2016, many fans and commentators felt he lacked the kahunas for the role, that he was simply too nice. But in the past seven years he has overseen a remarkable transformation in the England team’s fortunes, making it stronger and more exciting to watch than at any time in recent history.The ups and downs of Southgate’s tenure are portrayed with a blend of playfulness and moral seriousness in “Dear England,” directed by Rupert Goold, which runs at the National Theater, in London, through Aug. 11. It’s a lively, feel-good romp with plenty of irreverent humor, though the narrative borders on hagiography, and its core message about embracing male vulnerability is labored to the point of soppiness.The play chronicles the team’s involvement in three recent major tournaments, starting with its surprise run to the semifinals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia; then comes an agonizing defeat by Italy in the Euro 2020 final, followed by an impressive showing, culminating in an unlucky quarterfinal exit, at last year’s World Cup in Qatar.The on-field action is evoked through dynamic set pieces choreographed by Ellen Kane and Hannes Langolf, in which the players enact key moments in elaborate simulations, complete with slow-motion sequences and freeze-framed goal celebrations. These are kitsch, but mercifully brief, as the bulk of the activity takes place off the pitch: in locker rooms, team meetings and news conferences whose settings are rendered with smart simplicity by the designer Es Devlin.Joseph Fiennes is outstanding as Southgate, who is portrayed as self-effacing but assertive, an approachable father figure to his young charges. Will Close, as England’s captain and star player, Harry Kane, plays up the striker’s famously laconic manner, providing a bathetic counterpoint to the coach’s earnest rhetoric. Adam Hugill is similarly amusing as the defender Harry Maguire, who is portrayed as a lovable simpleton — not the sharpest tool in the box, but solid and dependable. Kel Matsena delivers a spirited performance as Raheem Sterling, who, along with Bukayo Saka (Ebenezer Gyau), speaks out defiantly against racism after England’s Black players are the targets of abuse.The principal female character in this necessarily male-dominated lineup is the sports psychologist Pippa Grange (Gina McKee), hired by Southgate to help the players open up about their feelings and overcome self-doubt. When one unreconstructed member of the coaching staff questions the need for her services, she reminds him that psychology has been at the root of England’s past failures: “This is men, dealing, or not dealing, with fear,” she says.The play’s author, James Graham, is known for political theater, with hits including “Ink” and “Best of Enemies,” and “Dear England” has distinctly activist overtones. Southgate’s mild-mannered disposition, emotional intelligence and leftish politics — he has been supportive of Black Lives Matter and outspoken on mental health issues — are kryptonite to a certain type of reactionary sports jock. So it’s tempting to view his story as a culture-war allegory, pitting touchy-feely liberalism against old-school machismo.Unfortunately the play leans into this a little too heavily, with pantomimic cameos from several of Britain’s recent Conservative prime ministers — Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss — pandering to the assumed prejudices of cosmopolitan London theatregoers in a way that comes off as ingratiating and smug. This is ramped up in the second half, which is considerably less funny, and feels rushed: The 2020 and 2022 tournaments are rattled through at speed, in contrast to the more leisurely pacing before the intermission.Southgate’s playing career is best remembered for a decisive miss in a penalty shootout against Germany in the semifinal of the 1996 European Championship, played in London, which resulted in England’s elimination from that tournament. A personal redemption narrative forms a compelling subplot the main story, and it’s a cruel irony that Southgate’s England side also lost the final of Euro 2020 in a penalty shootout on home soil. That Southgate has yet to bag a trophy — the England men’s team still hasn’t won a major tournament since 1966 — remains a powerful trump card for his doubters. And so the play’s celebratory tenor feels a little misplaced.Yet “Dear England” is not so much about sports as it is about culture. The technical and tactical foundations of the England team’s revival are conspicuously underplayed in this telling: The team’s on-field improvement is straightforwardly tethered to a shift in moral values, and we are given to understand that correlation equals causation. You can be fully on board with everything Southgate stands for and still find this cloyingly simplistic.Dear EnglandThrough Aug. 11 at the National Theater, in London; nationaltheatre.org.uk Source link Read the full article

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England boss Gareth Southgate loses staff in St George’s Park shake-up

Gareth Southgate loses staff at St George's Park shake-up �� but the boss of England is happy with the changes that could increase his influence

England manager Gareth Southgate has streamlined his backroom team

The FA is conducting a major restructuring of departments at St. George & # 39; s Park

Southgate welcomes the changes that may end up increasing his influence

By Matt Hughes For The Daily Mail

Published: 22:30 BST, 2 September 2019 | Updated: 22:47 BST, September 2, 2019

Gareth Southgate's backroom team is being streamlined as part of a major restructuring of the performance and technical departments in St. George & # 39; s Park.

The FA has no plans to replace Dave Reddin or psychologist Dr. Pippa Grange, who both left prominent positions with the organization this summer. Their roles will go to existing staff members and different departments, such as sports sciences and medicine, will be merged.

FA technical director Les Reed leads the reorganization after giving advice to staff and performance for six months after his appointment in February.

England manager Gareth Southgate streamlined his back room team

The FA was on Monday night that the changes are not due to cost savings, but acknowledged that a streamlining process is ongoing.

Many of Grange's responsibilities as a senior sports psychologist at the FA have already been transferred to Dr. Ian Mitchell, who was recruited at the Wales FA last year worked with Chris Coleman & # 39; s side during their successful run to the semifinals of Euro 2016.

The departure of Reddin will play a higher role for Bryce Cavanagh, the head of physical performance and nutrition.

FA technical director Les Reed leads the reorganization in St George & # 39; s 39; s Park

Southgate is pleased with the changes that could ultimately increase its influence, and has formed a good relationship with Reed. The former vice-president of Southampton was in St George's Park on Monday and watched England train for the qualification of the European Championships Saturday against Bulgaria.

Southgate has meanwhile added former England, Chris Backell, to his team for Euro 2020.

The 49-year-old joins the FA program to reduce the under-representation of black, Asian and other coaches of ethnic minorities. Former Birmingham defends Michael Johnson, 46, who recently coached Guyana, will work with the Under 21s.

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seriously how is this article about pippa grange the psychologist for the england nt the most healing mental health thing i have read in forever??? 

She wrote in 2013 that being a woman in a male team environment “is a constant navigation, for everyone. I have no interest in being one of the lads and I don’t quite fit in the ‘nurturing mother figure’ category in terms of the leadership work I do. I would be professionally ineffective if I remained in the background, psychologically safe with minimal voice, and I am not here to be the centre of attention as some form of entertainment. I don’t want to be completely separate because that would make me inaccessible and probably be a lonely place to operate from.”

so first - i really feel this is strong advice for any female person who’s working in a mostly male environment! don’t be a ‘mother’, don’t be ‘safe’, don’t be there for some sort of entertainment; there are a number of traps you can fall into as a female person in work and she’s sharply delineated a bunch of them

getting the players to sit down together in small groups to share their life experiences and anxieties, and to reveal intimate truths about their character and what drives them. The point, Southgate has said, is to build trust, “making them closer, with a better understanding of each other”.

getting them to open up!!! talk to each other! bond! õnly cønnect. is this important?? well, a) some of the older england players have said that in the past, entrenched club rivalries were an obstacle for them (steven gerrard: “i think the bond and the spirit and the closeness has to improve”), b) access to the psychologist for the 2014 WC 

. . .was offered to the players only if they felt they needed it – and not many would have admitted to wanting help.

and uhhh all of this - trust, preparation, routine, learning continually

Michael Caulfield says Southgate, with whom he worked at Middlesbrough, has a leadership style “built on incredible levels of trust between him and his players and staff. He was determined to convince the team there was nothing to fear from playing in the World Cup for England, whereas in the past people were nervous or fearful. He was determined to change that mindset from one of fear to one of adventure.”

“The skill is in your application to a task because that’s the bit you’re in control of . . . if you’re feeling fear you’re already mentally rehearsing it in a negative way. [In mental rehearsal] you prime your brain to play it how you would like to be. You might want to be confident, speak clearly. It’s not just positive thinking.”

“If you watch Harry Kane, if he’s been interrupted [before taking a penalty], he starts again – he picks the ball up and puts it down on the spot and goes through his whole routine again, and that’s something I’ve never seen England players do before. They usually want to get it over with as quickly as possible, but fear causes us to do things that are unhelpful.” Routines, says Barton, help to keep us in the moment, focused and in the right frame of mind.

Southgate : “I have learned from things that have gone wrong and had to pick myself up … Because of those failures, I feel it gives you the freedom of being able to say, ‘How might we be the best possible team?’ and not be afraid of what goes wrong – because whatever goes wrong we can deal with, as I have lived through it.”

Grange has written: “I’d like to turn this unhealthy preoccupation with success on its head and put it on the record that I think failure is really useful. For without failure we cannot progress longer, higher or faster. It’s a funny paradox – our successes are achieved through trying, and trying most often ends in failure. Every day in our general lives and our sporting lives we will win some and lose some; it’s just part of the way life should be . . . the important lesson is to learn from our failures, reassess, rethink, move forward (sometimes in a different direction) and keep those dreams and goals alive.”

like . . . this completely relives a bunch of conversations i had with my therapist c. 2014-2015 when i was clawing my way through depression. ultimate point though is that 

The era of hard-talking, tyrannical managers is over – both on and off the pitch. “Football, which I love and work in, is really bad at talking,” says Caulfield. “It does instructing and telling off but it doesn’t do talking and listening and empathy that well. . . Southgate, he says, realised early in his coaching career that instilling fear wasn’t going to work. “We all need a telling-off now and then – and he’s good at that, by the way –

he’s good at that by the way 

— but you’ll get far more from putting your faith in people than you will anything else. People had this lazy opinion that he’s too ‘nice’ and they see kindness as weakness, but it’s the most unbelievable strength if you use it in the right way.”

love’s got the world in motion tbh 

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Shift your response to fear. #coachjoe“You can do this by choosing, acting, and focusing differently. You decide how to adapt, on purpose, rather than let circumstances dictate to you.”- excerpt “Fear Less” authored by Dr. Pippa Grange.#mentalhealth #psychology #emotionalintelligence #mindfulness #yougotthis #leadershipdevelopment #yougotthis

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Man, I feel so sad for the Amelie cast & crew. They will be jobless in a couple of weeks just like that :( Part of me wishes Pippa had gone back into Natasha Pierre for the Broadway premiere but I also look forward to whatever she does next! Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about things such as the Hamilton's housing & living arrangements! I wish I lived in the US so I could visit The Grange & The Pastures and have a clear image in my head of them!

I mean, Pippa was never going back to to Great Comet.  She enjoys moving on and doing new projects.  And I know she’ll work!  I do wish people had liked the show better.  idk it probably helps that I don’t have strong feelings for the movie, so I thought the musical was cute and charming (minus gnomes, which are dumb) and Pippa was so delightful!

But she’ll be ok and I’m sure everyone else will be too!  They made it to Broadway!  They’ll keep getting it!

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How the psychology of the England football team could change your life

England players seem happier and more grounded – and much of the credit goes to psychologist Pippa Grange. What can the team’s approach teach us all about facing fear and failure?

This week, the England midfielder Dele Alli was asked if he was nervous about the big tests up ahead: first, of course, the team’s semi-final against Croatia on Wednesday. “Excited, not nervous,” he replied. His apparent happiness and confidence reflected an England team that seems transformed from previous incarnations. Where once it was stuffed with entitled, surly stars, burdened with the weight of history and the pressure of expectations, it now comes across as a hungry, humble team, playing with lightness and joy.

“We’ve spoken to the players about writing their own stories,” said the manager, Gareth Southgate, after the team beat Colombia in an unprecedentedly victorious (for England) penalty shootout. “Tonight they showed they don’t have to conform to what’s gone before. They have created their own history … We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.”

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Female Arsenal fan credited with changing England's fortunes at World Cup

Female Arsenal fan credited with changing England’s fortunes at World Cup

The sports psychologist who is being credited with changing England’s fortunes at the World Cup is an Arsenal fan. Dr Pippa Grange

Ahead of England’s World Cup semi-final against Croatia, Dr Pippa Grange, appointed as the Head of People and Team Development at the Football Association in November (according to the Guardian) or January (according to The Times), is being hailed across the industry,…

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England’s ‘amazing’ psychologist Pippa Grange set to leave despite World Cup success

The psychologist who helped England with the World Cup success could leave FA

Pippa Grange has not been fired or resigned, but seems to be leaving

Matt Lawton for the Daily Mail

22:33 GMT , March 18, 2019 | Dr Pippa Grange, the sports psychologist who played an integral part in the success of England at the last World Cup, could soon leave the FA

Wembley insiders insisted on Monday evening that Grange – described by Dele Alli last summer as a & # 39; great person & # 39; – was not fired or resigned.

But the future of the 48-year-old who joined the FA & # 39; s head of people and team development just 14 months ago,

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Dr. Pippa Grange, the psychologist who helped England with the success of the World Cup could leave

Grange played an influential role when England overcame their penalty shootout fears of beating Colombia in the final-16 match in Moscow.

It remains unclear whether a decision to proceed has been influenced by Les

But a psychologist with the team of n Gareth Southgate to work together – Grange is the head of her department but ultimately responsible to Reed – has already been recruited and Dr. Ian Mitchell will be with England for the Euro 2020 qualifiers against the Czech Republic on Friday and Montenegro three days later.

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World Cup 2018 • French Cake

The French have won the World Cup in football, for the second time in twenty years. Their record in major finals over the recent past is amazingly consistent too. It’s not a flash-in-the-pan. Indeed, the French might easily have sent several teams to the WC... They have amazing strength-in-depth.

The English commentary about the French campaign was to frame it as a sort of redemption for not winning the 2016 Euros...where they were runners-up! I wish England could have redeemed themselves better.

Whilst I am happy to salute the England manager, Gareth Southgate, and his players; I think the progress made by England is actually quite limited.

The French understand that great players are made, not born. Accordingly, and based on the template of elite formation codified by Napoleon, they have a highly elaborated pyramid system of identifying and developing talent...Kylian Mbappe, for example, has been part of their elite set-up since the age of 10.

The modern French system, in relation to football, was elaborated in the aftermath of Michel Platini’s frustrations. Platini was the European stand-out player of the late 1970s and early 1980s. France were expecting him to guide them to a world cup; but it didn’t work out as planned.

When Zinedine Zidane emerged in the early 1990s; they had a whole system in place to make the most of his talent. Now, there is the national centre for football excellence at Clairefontaine, and eleven regional satellites.

Being French, the first thing they did was to elaborate a specialised and precise technical vocabulary to describe the game. 

I have described the importance of talking about the game before. Here is some of my previous post...

It’s a bit daft to draw this distinction, between words and actions, as though theory and practice can exist independently. In fact, they can only co-exist.

I want to describe this in relation to football…

One of the problems facing English football is the impoverished conversation of the players. It’s obvious that, in order to address a problem on-or-off the field, you must have the words to describe that problem…

Football is a useful example of a serious and widespread failing in our education system.

Let me explain…

Football (soccer) is a team game which requires fitness, technique, organisation, discipline and communication. One of the surprising things about the game, at any level, is the amount of shouting on and off the field...

The performance of the England team at various tournaments has provided plenty of evidence that England no longer have any superiority in terms of fitness, technique and discipline…plus, it’s obvious that their communication skills are well below average.

If you watch Spain's tiki-taki style of play, it is clear that it is based on a combination of skills that must be elaborated verbally and physically. The immersive experience of Barcelona’s youth academy and training camp allow for the philosophical, physical and verbal expression of this system. It’s football as lifestyle.

It seems there may be some connection between the ability to talk about the game in an original and beautiful way and to play it in an original and beautiful way (Guardian 17/11).

Those of us of a certain age…can recall the famous boot-room, established by Bill Shankly, in Liverpool. This was a space where Shankly and his colleagues could speak of football. I don’t think that the Anfield boot-room was a place where footballers were ever welcome.

This state-of-affairs can only be understood through the prism of Britain’s deeply entrenched class system and the working-class origins of the game. In addition, many of the country’s big clubs have their beginnings in a kind of muscular christianity.

One of the most encouraging things about the new England set up is the role of Pippa Grange as team psychologist. Usually, the appeal to psychology is made in terms of performance and visualisation. in contrast, Pippa is helping to develop a language that describes the emotional reality of the game, and in retrospect. That sounds promising.

Nevertheless, I think England are about twenty years behind France in terms of the technical and linguistic development of players.

I mentioned cake... i meant French cake, especially la patisserie...anyone who has watched the TV patisserie challenge will now that, just as in football, the French have elaborated a precise technical vocabulary that describes every cake, and the various processes involved in its creation. 

In relation to pastry, this is about establishing a framework of standards that are about absolute quality and consistency. This translates well into everyday life, and the various expressions about eating cake etc.

Also, I especially liked Jorge Valdano’s writing about football at this WC.

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“You shouldn’t see failure as a part of you, but just as a puzzle you’ve been given to solve.” - Dr Pippa Grange🧩You may not see it now, but you have the right pieces to make the puzzle of your life fit together.🔄 Discover your will to excavate the failure, reassess, rethink, and move forward- maybe in a new direction. Progress allows failure become valuable.yougotthis #failforward #personaldevelopment #mindsetofgreatness #challengeyourself #piecesofthepuzzle #coachingandmentoring #growthmindset

“You shouldn’t see failure as a part of you, but just as a puzzle you’ve been given to solve.” – Dr Pippa Grange🧩You may not see it now, but you have the right pieces to make the puzzle of your life fit together.🔄 Discover your will to excavate the failure, reassess, rethink, and move forward- maybe in a new direction. Progress allows failure become valuable.yougotthis #failforward #personaldevelopment #mindsetofgreatness #challengeyourself #piecesofthepuzzle #coachingandmentoring #growthmindset

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