Thomas Tuchel has been announced by the English FA as the next head coach of the England men’s football team, three months after Gareth Southgate resigned from the role.

England are set to appoint Thomas Tuchel as their new manager. This represents a real change from the Gareth Southgate era

The prominent placement of English assistant coach Anthony Barry on the unveiling was intended to show that this is not some destabilising operation run from the Reichstag. But the inclusion of an Englishman, excellent though he is by all accounts, doesn’t prove the presence of an ‘English’ football thread in the national set-up.