England can learn from being five minutes from the final and they have home advantage and good players for Euro 2028.
The failure to make substitutions to nullify big-game full-bore Lionel Messi.
Tuchel made a decent effort last week at steering attention to the more favourable aspects of England’s World Cup, but it’s clear he’s fighting a losing battle here. Nobody cares about his all-time highest managerial win ratio, or a best-ever England World Cup performance overseas.
All England managerial careers start in failure, continue in failure and implode in failure.
Gareth Southgate took England from total dysfunction to the most successful sustained six-year period in their history, but still spent most of his time in the job dismissed as a yes-man, traitor, and the sole obstacle to all-consuming world domination on a scale never before seen.
The next European Championship is the best chance England are going to get any time soon to win something. Put it all together and the biggest obstacle to making this work is not the team or the manager, but the energy around them, a reaction to Tuchel that is, in itself, the biggest example of why England fail.
First, nobody knows where the idea Tuchel was appointed solely to win tournaments came from.
All 22, from 1930 to 2026, have been the same nationality as their players.
To appreciate this properly it is worth breaking down that sorrowful 18-minute spell in Miami, if only because this wasn’t a 18-minute spell, but a 40-minute spell.