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Gareth Southgate: "I get called Gary, and Darren - I’ve even been called Neville Southall"

The current England manager answers FourFourTwo's daft questions in January 2015 on patting cats, Salt 'N' Shake and his best woodwork creations

Hi Gareth. Wikipedia claims you once contributed a poem to children’s book series Roary & Friends. Can this be true?
Hi. I’m afraid it’s not. It was ridiculous, actually, because the company threatened to sue me about the “claim”. The guy who wrote the book said: “You never contributed anything.” But I’d never claimed to. Very odd.

Your apparent poem read: “Always keep away from crime/ It only leads to badness.