Southgate: I never applied for the role

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Sir Gareth Southgate called the claims that he applied for the role of manager of Poland's national team a ''complete fabrication.''  The former England player and manager received a knighthood for his services to football. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I don't know what happened there. It's a complete fabrication. I've never applied for the role.

00:07I don't know if somebody has claimed to be a representative. I'm a little bit surprised at the lack of due diligence really

00:13because I'm sat quietly at home minding my own business and I'm being linked with something and then ruled out of something

00:19that I haven't even considered. But that's my world a little bit at times.

00:25So no, I've been working on other things, few business projects. I'm very passionate about this area of helping young men

00:33and trying to create more mentoring, more good role models for young people to follow

00:40because I think it's a very serious situation we're in at the moment in our country

00:44and if my profile can help that in some way then I want to do that as well.

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