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Gareth Southgate Football

PRINTED ON ROTTERDAM TILES, WON'T SMUDGE

Found: one waistcoated serif typeface, mild, answers to Gareth, suits parish newsletters and bring-and-buy notices

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Gareth Southgate sits at a garden centre café table, checking his watch beside a slice of cake, waistcoat neatly buttoned.
Location
Pedestrian underpass beneath Rotterdam Zuid, printed on the tiles at 14 point
Currently
Setting the jumble sale notice, in a smart waistcoat weight
Last confirmed sighting
Heading a raffle notice in St Botolph's newsletter, Surrey, Thursday
Observations
Is kerned by hand each morning by a very patient pigeon with a ruler.

Gareth Southgate is now a font, available in regular, italic and Waistcoat Bold. He was installed overnight on a church office computer in Surrey and has since spread to eleven parish newsletters and one underpass in Rotterdam.

The council has received 212 compliments, mostly about the tidy lowercase g and the calm spacing between words. Four complaints concern the full stops, which some residents say are taken too slowly and with visible regret. One asked whether the penalty notice for the bins could be set in something else.

The flower rota, lost property and the harvest supper have never looked so dependable. Nobody now raises their voice at the cake stall, and the vicar reports that even the word 'Cancelled' reads as a gentle disappointment. The Rotterdam underpass has been described as extremely well organised.

Guidance for the public

Do not stretch, condense or set in comic style; he prefers sensible margins.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 3 September 1970. Source: Wikidata

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