{"id":193221,"date":"2024-06-25T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/25\/gareth-southgate-responds-to-harry-kanes-war-of-words-with-gary-lineker\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:55:13","slug":"gareth-southgate-responds-to-harry-kanes-war-of-words-with-gary-lineker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/25\/gareth-southgate-responds-to-harry-kanes-war-of-words-with-gary-lineker\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Southgate responds to Harry Kane\u2019s war of words with Gary Lineker \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>England head coach Gareth Southgate claimed he has not been aware of Harry Kane\u2019s back-and-forth feud with Gary Lineker as he does not value \u201cexternal\u201d opinions as much as his own.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Three Lions\u2019 flat display in last week\u2019s 1-1 draw with Denmark came in for staunch criticism, with BBC Sport pundits and former\u00a0England\u00a0strikers Lineker and Alan Shearer labelling the performance as \u201cs**t\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kane\u00a0hit back at this description and called on the duo to be more positive and upbeat with their analysis of England, which has resulted in several days worth of disagreements between the two sides of the argument.<\/p>\n<p>But when asked if he had an opinion of his own on this war of words,\u00a0Southgate\u00a0admitted he has not paid any attention to it whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the world we are in, and I am oblivious to it. It\u2019s not important to me at all,\u201d Southgate said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s important to me is that I have got to guide this group of players confidently through the terrain of the tournament. We are a high-profile team with expectations and we fully understand everything we do is going to be scrutinised, so I am very comfortable living that life.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/01j176xwxk53wbbxpe9q.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Kane\" title=\"Harry Kane\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Kane has defended England\u2019s performances and called for more positivity \/ Richard Pelham\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need to engage in the external because I am my own biggest critic, and I think our players are as well. There is nothing to be gained from us that will help improve us by listening to external criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the world we live in there will always be external noise, but the external noise shouldn\u2019t affect us. What\u2019s important is the internal, we are the only ones that can perform on the pitch and the only ones that can give those performances better. Performance is what we are focusing on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what we have done well, we are very honest about that, and we know where we need to be better, we are brutally honest about that, and that\u2019s how you work as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>England take on Slovenia\u00a0in their final group stage match on Tuesday night. 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The Three Lions\u2019 flat display in last week\u2019s 1-1 draw with Denmark came in for staunch criticism, with BBC Sport pundits and former\u00a0England\u00a0strikers Lineker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gareth Southgate responds to Harry Kane\u2019s war of words with Gary Lineker \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/25\/gareth-southgate-responds-to-harry-kanes-war-of-words-with-gary-lineker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gareth Southgate responds to Harry Kane\u2019s war of words with Gary Lineker \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"England head coach Gareth Southgate claimed he has not been aware of Harry Kane\u2019s back-and-forth feud with Gary Lineker as he does not value \u201cexternal\u201d opinions as much as his own. 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