Trustworthiness and Trust - and Football!

Trust thought for today - is a football theme - about trustworthiness and trust and England manager Gareth Southgate!

I am a distracted tho dutiful England fan, (so apologies to real fans!) but have been intrigued to mentally clock how so many media articles about him and England's unusually tranquil but gratifying progress in the Euros mentions trust. Particularly:

* His solid, quiet, serious competence - and surprising success - being reflected as trustworthiness. Not flashy, lucky, but real, dependable and to be trusted instead of constantly criticised and nitpicked. (Tho if we were losing it would be just dull!)

* His trust in key players, particularly Captain Harry Kane, even when they are not performing well. A signal of trustworthiness. (Most notable when they go on to score great goals. If that hadn't happened he would be seen as trusting those untrustworthy and ridiculed!)

* Much discussion about how he should trust different players and how now is their time, but giving him the benefit of the doubt when he doesn't pick them. (Benefit of the doubt is one of the really useful effects of trust as discussed in my new trust course)

* How trustworthiness is suddenly sexy!! Because of him 'Good guys are now officially hot', I read somewhere!

I like it that fundamentally they are acknowledging and recognising that years of unshowy trustworthiness pays off. Let's see how that narrative plays out after Denmark!

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