New England Manager.

Tuchel has a dry sense of humour. As for banter - who would you want to engage with for laughs - Southgate or Tuchel? 
To suggest Germans don't have 'banter' (implying they lack a sense of humour) is just a very tired old trope.
And inaccurate, from what I have experienced in Germany.
Updates from Eisehuttenstadt to follow.

We had an English England manager and people were against him from the start. Southgate's record stands better than most English managers whatever the football was like.
England fans turn very quickly against managers whatever the nationality.
They remind me of West Ham fans who turned against Allardyce when he got them promoted from The Championship and up to 10th in the Prem, the highest for years, because he didn't play 'the West 'Am way'.
When the country can move on from the 1970s, singing '10 German bombers' and 'one world cup and two world wars', then perhaps we can focus on the football rather than the nationalism.
However as seen with Southgate even if Tuchel gets us to finals it will never be good enough for England fans. He is doomed from the start and on a hiding to nothing in my opinion. A very brave [or foolish] man who should know what he he is in for looking at the back of the English 'newspapers'.

Being England Manager sounds like a terrible job. You need to be one type of manager to qualify and another to have success in tournaments. Very few footballers are particularly clever and some think they are much cleverer than they actually are. (No names, but we know him well). Southgate seemed to get caught out at tournaments by teams changing formation and tactics.

There is a version of software delivery called Extreme Programming which requires two programmers to work on the same piece at the same time, but one charged to think tactically and one to think strategically. So just as important as the manager is his assistant and the team. I remember that Graham Taylor documentary (and Mike Bassett) where Phil Neal just said "yes boss" to whatever nonsense Taylor spouted while Laurie McMenemy clearly was wishing he was somewhere else. That's not what you want, you need someone that is smart enough to observe the pattern of play and not just the minutiae of the statistics or the current tactics and play. Expecting some Sport Billy who skipped O' levels to play football to be able to do all that does seem ludicrous.

This nationality stuff leaves me cold. It's like Star Trek never happened. I would happily sing Das Deutschlandlied, naked and drunk in an open top car up and down Whiteladies road if Tuchel wins the World Cup with England. (would prefer California Uber Alles as it's more in my key and idiom).

Personally I’m a big fan of the self-proclaimed German Ambassador for Comedy, Henning Wehn

His accent remains strongish, but his grasp of colloquial English is stunning (much better than my friends’, for example), his storytelling rhythms are excellent, and I find his droll irony hugely entertaining

I did see him live once, and he was very mediocre, but it was a well-refreshed corporate crowd who were more interested in what they had to say than what he was saying

A recent example of German humour was the Captain of a visiting German Frigate ordered his crew to blast out the Darth Vader death march over the ships loud speakers whilst cruising up the Thames under London Bridge. A good video on utube!.

Well I suppose he’s been given to the next World Cup just to see if it works out. It seems a good time to judge him, it’s not as if he’s got to build a team or go out and buy anyone. He got a finite number of players and he’ll pick his team and system and then be judged. I think he’ll do a decent job.

I was hoping for Eddie Howe who was the obvious stand out Englishman and I don’t get the ‘it must be an Englishman’ that always surrounds the position of England manager. To keep it reasonable I’ll just think do I want Sam Allardyce or do I want Thomas Tuchel as England manager. That should put me right. We don’t get it with clubs so I think it’s just old-fashioned xenophobia.

Over the next few weeks I think it will be very interesting to see how the FA deal with this. Reading yesterday that the FA said “approximately 10 candidates were talked to including English coaches….” You usually say approximations are for figure above 20, not 10. Surely even the FA can count to 10! So I’m presuming that Eddie H must have been one of those. If he wasn’t who were they? Perhaps more coaches than managers. Yet today EH says he was not even contacted about the job.

Now he has said that I think something doesn’t seem right. I don’t believe there are many better candidates than EH but it appears that if he wasn’t “contacted” then he wasn’t even considered. Quite amazing. Yet the FA yesterday implied by what they said that they had considered English candidates which, to those reading, that it included EH.

Someone is telling porkies methinks! I await to hear that Adrian Burlington announces in a few months that he is moving on to ‘explore new career opportunites.’

UTG!

Epping, please.

I can do Bristol well, I can manage West Country, I can do Brum, I can even do Geordie. I struggle with Scottish but have absolutely no chance with German. Keep it English or at least provide the English version. 🤔
best wishes.

UTG!