Thomas Tuchel and the English Game
England and Scotland set to battle at Twickenham today for Calcutta Cup
THE appointment of Thomas Tuchel as manager of the England men’s team has caused a stir.
It has been criticised as an abandonment of English football identity. A betrayal of St George and the English DNA forged at his football Park in Staffordshire.
Such criticism forgets how football developed as a global game in the first place, and national team football has always been open to positive international influences and the sharing of ideas beyond borders.
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