This is more evidence the problem runs deeper than Tuchel. Yes, his decisions were the biggest factor. But it’s been a nation wide issue since I’ve been watching football, and certainly since I’ve been working in it for over 15 years. And people think it’s improving. It will get worse. Because you have all these 1-1 coaches who just do the same routine “tiny touches, 100mph, player being told what touch to take, all receives 5 yards away, coach shouting “quick, turn, chop, bounce, set” blah blah thinking that’s what technique is…NONSENSE And then you have academies that are telling their young players exactly what to do all the time . I kid you not, one premier league academy employed a “pass out from the back coach” for their ages up to 12 and he made a rule that the CB can only pass to the GK or full back…NONSENSE I also once saw an FA Coach mentor educate coaches and literally say the words “the correct way to play is the way you’re facing” - NONSENSE Those are just three examples. This country thinks it’s producing more technique footballers. What it’s actually doing, and it will get worse, is it’s producing robots who can not think for themselves and just perform the same routine they’ve been taught with no adaptability or variety or feeling for the game. The single most crucial asset any footballer can have is ADAPTABILITY. That’s what Argentina did last night. Individually and collectively they had adaptability to find the solutions to win the game. What happened to England? Default of how those players have been brought up in this culture and unable to problem solve. England had a golden generation in the Southgate years where the players coming through weren’t yet poisoned with this overcoached nonsense but there was a bigger respect for technique. But you’re now going to see it get worse and worse as the players coming through are the product of being robotically coached from kids. It needs a country wide revamp in terms of player development education.