Gareth Southgate urges the FA to turn back the clock to take advantage of former English coaches We have a great opportunity here at St George's Park for them to come and deliver something to coaches, at whatever level, so they can pass their experience on. In terms of the players, Stuart Pearce and Tony Adams are two of the older ones from the Euro 96 team, but they haven't really had that long in coaching. They have maybe had 10-15 years, but now is the time when they will be well-rounded coaches. Other coaches who didn't play as long as they did will have had 20 years coaching and be much more experienced as a result. England manager Roy Hodgson has named Gary Neville as a coach on a four-year contract, despite the former Manchester United defender never having coached at senior level before. But while Southgate understands why more experienced coaches could feel overlooked by Neville's appointment, he insists that Hodgson was right to call the former England defender into his backroom team. "I could totally understand the coaching fraternity saying "he's not worked at a club, how does that work?" It's a bit like when I got the job at Middlesbrough before I had the pro licence. In fairness to Gary, he has his A licence so it's not as if he's dedicated no time to coaching. But I think Roy has a slightly different role in mind - more his experience of a tournament as a player, and that link with the manager. A coach without that international experience might not have been able to provide that.