SOUTHGATE & CROUCH

What are you both like when it comes to tech?

GS: I run my life on my phone, so without it I’m not quite sure how I would operate. I’m using apps for things like fitness, because I’m not able to get to the gym at the moment, and obviously there’s everything to do with work on there.

Years ago, the only accurate data we had was around how far people ran. Normally it was used in a really basic way: you’d get the fitness coach to bring it to you on a Monday and tell you this player didn’t run far enough and therefore we didn’t win. It was a really misguided way of assessing these things.

Now we’ve got so much accurate performance data around every pass that’s played, you can assess teams much more clearly. We’ve actually got too