England’s men have won nothing since 1966 so if Thomas Tuchel is a ‘quick fix’ that will do us fine
Herr Fixit
WE will not join the orgy of griping over the FA hiring German Thomas Tuchel.
His critics would apparently prefer another few decades of agonising under-achievement and near-misses as long as the boss remains English.
But Tuchel is one of a tiny elite of world-class managers, also including Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp.
Would anyone really be complaining if we’d landed them? We doubt it.
Tuchel is no diplomat, no Southgate. He is controversial and explosive. But his many trophies speak for themselves.
The ex-Chelsea boss loves Britain and knows the English game backwards.
We don’t recall our Lionesses being told their 2022 Euros triumph didn’t count because their manager is Dutch.
Tuchel’s nationality won’t matter a damn if he finally shapes our squad of undoubted superstars into a cohesive unit which wins the 2026 World Cup.
Some are sniffy too about him being a “quick fix”. But our men have won nothing since 1966. A fix will do us fine.
The quicker the better.
Stop digging
LABOUR must struggle to keep a straight face when claiming the Tories left them a smoking ruin of an economy.
Growth under Rishi Sunak was the fastest in the G7 in the first half of 2024. Unemployment was low and falling. Interest rates were coming down at last.
Inflation, tamed by the Tories, is now BELOW target. The notoriously sluggish Bank of England has no excuse not to slash interest rates again next month.
It is laughable to paint this as “instability” — and the “worst economic inheritance” for any incoming Government since World War Two.
In fact the Tories, in the two years after the Truss debacle, steadied the ship and laid the groundwork for far higher growth.
With inflation low, Labour can cash in on that. Or kill it with damaging Budget tax rises to fill the “£22billion black hole” which seems to exist mainly as a ruse to fund ideological left-wing spending.
Choose wisely, Chancellor.
Terror vision
WHAT’S it like inside the woke TV departments which slap trigger warnings on harmless telly?
Are they full of cynical jobsworths deliberately conjuring imagined offence from innocuous decades-old shows? Or are they all actual snowflakes cowering under desks from the world outside?
If it’s the latter, they had better stay there for Halloween, when kids dress as ghosts and witches.
A “haunted sword” in a 2004 Midsomer Murders episode was enough to freak them out and prompt them to warn the public.
There is one event which should genuinely terrify them, though:
The day the woke bubble finally bursts and TV firms fire the lot of them.