National side used game as form of team bonding
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Sir Gareth Southgate has revealed the secret key to the strong bond forged by his England team: they spent their downtime playing The Traitors.
As the nation waits to see whether Joe Marler and company can catch the duplicitous Alan Carr and Cat Burns in the final of Celebrity Traitors , Southgate has said his squad would consistently organise their own version of the game at tournaments and claimed it was among the most effective team-building exercises during his eight years in charge of the national side.
Writing in his memoir, Dear England, which is published on Thursday, Southgate says the craze for playing Werewolf – the “social deduction” game which helped to inspire The Traitors – began at the Qatar World Cup in 2022, with the squad player Conor Coady introducing the game to his teammates.
