Thomas Tuchel’s five lessons (that we actually already knew)

When the late Sven-Goran Eriksson started in the England job 23 years ago, he was invited to tea by the prime minister, Tony Blair, who said that they both had impossible jobs and they should have a bet as to who would survive in theirs the longest. We await to see whether a similar wager will be taken by the two incumbents, though a) Keir Starmer won’t go near Thomas Tuchel for fear of being accused of getting something else for free, and b) Tuchel doesn’t see impossible odds being stacked against him at all. Indeed, in his breezy intro to his new audience on Wednesday, he talked only of his mission to help England win the World Cup in 19 months’ time and seemed