Outsourcing the England manager job to German Thomas Tuchel is brilliant — and a damning indictment of English football
2 months ago

Outsourcing the England manager job to German Thomas Tuchel is brilliant — and a damning indictment of English football

The Independent  

Anybody who knows football will recognise that Thomas Tuchel is a brilliant appointment by the FA to become the next England coach. The statistics hint at what a woeful condition our cohort of football management is in: no English coach has won Europe’s top club trophy since Tony Barton picked up the European Cup for Aston Villa in 1982; no Englishman has led a side to the FA Cup since Harry Redknapp lifted it with Portsmouth in 2008; and perhaps most damningly of all, no manager born in this country has ever won the Premier League. open image in gallery Pep Guardiola with Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson Foreign investors have poured in with no remit to better the English national set-up. Which may well be true, given that even in England’s second tier, the Championship, a competition that should be incubating the next generation of coaching potential, only two of the managers of the top five clubs are English.

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Sean Dyche: Thomas Tuchel right for England job but most would like English boss
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Steve Cooper says British coaches must ‘continue to improve’ after Thomas Tuchel appointed England boss
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Thomas Tuchel tells England fans what to expect from his new team
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FA’s Mark Bullingham defends English coaching system after hiring Thomas Tuchel
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Thomas Tuchel's sole mission is to win the World Cup. He's a one-hit, one-tournament appointment. I find it refreshing, writes SIMON JORDAN
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