At the 1960 Olympics Boston won gold as only 8cm separated the top three athletes. Boston jumped 8 metres and 12cm (26 feet and 7.5 inches) to break the Olympic record also held by Owens, who was in Rome as a spectator. From then on it was near total domination before the break for Ralph Hasenhuttl's side. How did Boston find the experience of competing in his first Olympics? "There were like 35 people who were entered into the long jump event in Rome and there was a morning round qualifying and then there was an afternoon round - the final. When asked if he had been tempted to move back into club management prior to signing his new deal, Southgate said he would have found it "difficult to live with" if he had walked away from the national side with unfinished business.