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Dear England: The Real Story Behind the Three Lions Rebirth delves in Southgate's turbulent journey to being appointed England manager and emerging as a waistcoated cult figure, to becoming the country's most successful manager since Sir Alf Ramsey and forging a new kind of patriotism for the 2020s. Award-winning football writers Jonathan Northcroft and Rob Draper have had extraordinary access to the England team during Southgate's tenure and take us behind the scenes as they interview key backroom staff and players to give the complete account of the highs and lows of Southgate's reign.

King Power Stadium, countdown to kick off. Out on the pitch, a lone brass player sounds the haunting 'Post Horn Gallop', for 80 years the home players' entrance tune. Spines tingle. Air is gulped into opposition lungs. Game time, time to begin the chase. Burning fox eyes peer down from between the decks of one of the stands. On the stadium's outside wall, a royal-blue LCD display says '#Fearless'. Welcome to Leicester City.