KO going to always haunt me

as motivation to go on and make a final.

Southgate, who is expected to name a strong side to face Belgium in today’s third place play-off in St Petersburg, added: “I’m old enough now that I don’t have to beat myself up unnecessarily.

“When I was a player I had a very simplistic mindset. Win and I was good, lose and I was an idiot.

“There is nothing in between and bizarrely I felt the need to punish myself for that.

“I’m a lot more rational now. I can see what we have achieved, albeit when you are so close you look back at what we might have done.

“But when you get close to success it drives you more, because you can see things are possible.

“I’ve always felt that way, anything I’ve done in my life you want to be in the games that matter and you want to be winning things where possible.

“Now my care is for everybody else. Picking them up first and foremost, energising them for this game. We’ve got to finish well.

“We’ve set a level of working and performing that we want to maintain and take pride in.

“Your responsibilities lay elsewhere as a manager.

“It’s different but no less painful, but I’ve also got to get everyone else through the next days.

“I can’t speak for Belgium but I imagine they are as hungry as we are to finish the tournament well.

“We have high motivation to perform and finish with a medal at a World Cup, which only one English team have ever done.

“We’d like to redress having lost to Belgium once before already, too.”