Thomas Tuchel is a baggage-heavy, intriguing choice that makes sense | Barney Ronay
Champions League conqueror is a fiery tactical zealot but narrative has always been that England need a winner
Well, at least we know now why Lee Carsley spent last week addressing the nation’s media in the style of a low-comedy adulterous 1950s sales executive explaining in flustered detail exactly why or indeed why not he might or might not be on the verge of finally leaving his wife.
The news that the Football Association has been engaged in advanced discussion with Thomas Tuchel over the vacant England head coach role does explain the riddle-me-this tone of the interim choice while discussing the immediate future.