11 hours ago Bombshell email from Thomas Tuchel's ex wife reveals the real reason new England manager was sacked by Chelsea 

The alleged reasons, which cannot be reported on legal grounds but relate to Tuchel's private life, emerged during a court hearing in Germany last year

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13 hours ago Thomas Tuchel’s arrival highlights English football’s failure to produce top managers | Jonathan Wilson

Junior-level success cannot mask the fact that the Premier League stifles the development of home-grown coachesThe good news for the battered pride of English coaching is that, even leaving Lee Carsley and his complicated status aside, England still provides the manager for 11 national teams. Although France and Italy also supply 11, only Spain, with 14, offer more. The less positive news is that, according to the Fifa world rankings, the best of those sides are Jamaica (61st), New Zealand (95th) and Puerto Rico (154th).It’s not to demean the work of Steve McClaren, Darren Bazeley or Charlie Trout to suggest that that does not sound like the record of a major football nation. It’s true that Spain’s tally includes the coaches of Brunei and Belize, but Spaniards also manage Portugal and, ...

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23 hours ago Meet Thomas Tuchel's biggest supporters: The people of his German hometown who remember him as a young Abba fan (and don't even mind if he wins the World Cup for England)

Proud residents of Thomas Tuchel 's home town of Krumbach, Germany are delighted at his new job as England manager and in no doubt that he can win the World Cup for England.

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24 hours ago Gary Lineker left howling at German reaction to Thomas Tuchel's England appointment

Gary Lineker was joined by German journalist Raphael Honigstein on Thursday's edition of The Rest Is Football, with the pair discussing Thomas Tuchel's appointment as the new England manager

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24 hours ago Man United boss Erik ten Hag saw job chances completely change as players intervened

Erik ten Hag was reportedly in contention to become the new Bayern Munich manager earlier this year, though a number of the German side's players were against the Dutchman's appointment

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25 hours ago Disguised in Mail’s froth about Thomas Tuchel is an issue worth worrying about | Barney Ronay

The fury of the newspaper’s star sports writer about a German managing England means a central point gets lost in translationWell, that kicked off a bit didn’t it? By now it seems fairly clear we all need a break from people having feelings about The Germans, and specifically about the morality or otherwise of a German being employed as manager of the England men’s football team.Except, perhaps not quite yet. How about it? Once more, this time with feeling? At the very least, as the tide retreats on all that free-floating anxiety, it is probably worth taking a look at the reaction itself, which is, as ever, the part that seems to stick. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago 'English managers aren't good enough to manage England – the FA had to go German'

MAC OF THE NET COLUMN: The FA are right to hire Thomas Tuchel despite English criticism and INEOS were bold with Sir Alex Ferguson pay cut, but why was he earning that much anyway?

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