That’s funny as I was thinking similarly. Although I was thinking that Tuchel had turned me, at least, from a doubter to a non-believer.
As for replacing Kane as captain, who would you have? Bellingham is too emotional and too much of a prima-donna. The England captain should should not be slapping opposition players around the head before or after full-time. So who else?
Personally, I think the captain should be a midfielder or a CB. So that’s Rice or Guehi, neither of whom strike me as being leaders. So, Saka it is then!
The part that got me howling was when he talked about passing down the pain of supporting England to the children, and the children finally understood why their England supporting parents are like that.
Nonsense. There’s a certain compatriot of his who would remedy England’s mental frailties.
The message he’s been sending is terrible and he’s probably already on borrowed time. At the latest, he will be gone after the Euro when England inevitably flounder again.
60 years. 30 major tournaments. Zero trophies. Maybe it is in the DNA.
Wonder what makes people think England should be up there? Because you invented the game? Because the PL is the biggest league in the world? That’s built with all the foreign players that are being bought.
English talent is overrated. Overhyped by the own media and the pundits and as soon as they fuck up those are the first people coming out of their holes.
The football during the tournaments has been shit most of the times. Doesn’t matter who’s the coach. Maybe that is DNA?
From what I saw of England in this tournament every time England took the lead Anderson would drop back into the defensive line. This takes a player out of midfield making ball recuperation and pressure on the opposition more difficult. So what he’s saying is this wasn’t tactical it’s down to Anderson’s footballing DNA. That is damning of the FA’s football program of the last 12 years.
I must admit when you seen Kane back in his 18 yard box Tuchel’s statement seems correct. Yet it was him who selected Kane and kept him as captain without insisting on tactical discipline.
He’ll have a difficult time with these comments I think. Why show so much faith in players who obviously after these comments aren’t doing what they are asked to as they don’t have the DNA to do it?
Agreed, but while complaining about that game and looking for scapegoats, they forget all the excellent previous stuff which brought them to this match in the first place.
The funny thing is that they didn’t even fuck up. They went to a World Cup semifinal. But the entitlement is deeply ingrained. No idea why to be honest.
Hmmm.
Mexico aside, where let’s face it they must’ve got really pumped for amid all the claims that they had little chance of winning, they’d been bang average and very unconvincing.
In my view, we didn´t play anybody good and as soon as we did, we lost. Which tends to happen every tournament.
We beat Croatia who are a shadow of their former selves. People might say Mexico were ranked 10th or whatever but I doubt they could have named 5 current Mexican players before the tournament.
This is more or less the trolling I had been getting about Liverpool not winning the league for 30 years. “It’s who you are”, “You are no longer a great team”, “You’ll always come short” and other similar nuggets.
I don’t think that Germany, Spain or Italy have inherently players of greater talent. They just know how to develop them better. And that is down to the coaching, something that has been overlooked from the grass roots all the way up to the highest level. 4 teams out of 20 in the PL have English managers.
The last English coach who could be considered elite was the late Bobby Robson.
