00:00I don't know why the bloody hell I'm here. I'm here as Gareth Southgate.
00:05As the World Cup 2026 kicks off, a group of Gareth Southgate lookalikes gathered to commiserate the first tournament in
00:1210 years without the former England manager at the helm.
00:15Gareth, come back. We need the role model. Tuchel's great, but we need someone who's going to, you know, liven
00:19the people up. We need you. Please come back.
00:23Participants, ranging from casual fans to professional lookalikes, descended on a South London pub wearing their finest waistcoats to deliver
00:31their best Southgate impersonations.
00:33Get it, worry. Go on. Get it off. Get it off.
00:37I didn't realise we had such stiff competition here, you know.
00:41We're maybe just a wee bit late to the party when the Southgate era has passed now, but he's still
00:46an iconic guy with his iconic waistcoats, so it's good to see them all out again for another summer of
00:51football, hopefully.
00:51Lining up one by one to channel the England legend, the winner was decided by who got the loudest cheer
00:57from the crowd.
00:58The lucky Southgate impersonator was rewarded with both a golden waistcoat as well as a £100 bathtub.
01:05One impersonator travelled all the way from Cork Island for the competition.
01:09Just thought it was a bit of crack. I'm sick of people telling me I look like Gareth Southgate, so
01:13when I got contacted about this competition, I was like, sure what? I might as well have put it to
01:17good use.
01:18I used to get Ed Miliband, young Ed Miliband, and then that sort of transformed into Gareth Southgate.
01:24It was then, it doubled up when my dad, so my dad looks like me, but a lot more like
01:30Gareth Southgate. He's a genuine doppelganger, so I get it from that as well.
01:33Well, I really hoped he wasn't showing up. Thankfully, he lives in Norwich.
01:36If you could rate, on a scale of one to ten, you know, how much do you look like Gareth
01:40Southgate? What number would you pick?
01:42Oh, I would say I'm a six. I like a six. I don't think I'm the best, but I don't
01:49think I'm the worst, so I'm going to say a six.
01:50I would have thought I was higher after seeing some of these people today, but I'm going to give myself
01:56lower now because of what I've seen, so a six as well.
02:01Oh, that makes me sound like a bit of a big head. Can I give myself an eight? Is that
02:04okay?
02:05Yeah.
02:05All right, okay.
02:06You'll definitely give yourself an eight.
02:07All right, thank you.
02:08I think in the general population, I'm a nine on the Gareth Southgate scale. In there, I did not deserve
02:14to be in the final 50%. I was really reaching. As soon as I walked in, I was like, I'm
02:19pushing my luck here. It's not happening. I did well.
02:21We love you and we impersonate you. We celebrate you.
02:25Gareth, we want to stay relevant, so go out there and get a job so we can still stay relevant
02:30for the coming years.
