From Southgate's Missed Penalty to Managerial Success: Dear England Previewed

From Southgate's missed penalty to managerial success: Dear England previewed

Dear England, the inspiring play about Gareth Southgate’s England men’s football team, is visiting Mayflower Theatre in January 2026.

Samantha Womack talks about her role as Pippa Grange in Dear England - In-Common - Southampton

By Sarah Crompton. Samantha Womack is exactly where she wants to be – standing on a stage, surrounded by noise, activity, the roar of the crowd, she is the still centre of a frenetic world. Pippa Grange, the psychologist who helped Gareth Southgate fashion a new kind of England, a different kind of football team, was the part she wanted to play. “She is very calm and centred, very direct,” she says. “There’s no mania with her. I was looking for …