World Cup: Should Tuchel Remain England Manager?
episodePreviously titled “World Cup: What Next For England?” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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At the FIBA World Cup 2026, the Football Daily Podcast with Steve Crossman.
Hello there, welcome to the Football Daily Podcast. In this episode, we'll be speaking to ESPN's Julien Laron, Guillaume Balaguet and Ney de Manua and we'll be dissecting England's World Cup semi-final defeat to Argentina. We'll try and bring you some new stuff because I know we've been talking about it a lot already. We will definitely be getting into Thomas Tuchel's future. The discussion seems to be very much moving on to that, doesn't it? So we'll talk about that. We'll also talk about Harry Kane and whether or not this is his last World Cup in an England shirt. It certainly feels like it. Najem, because the other two care less than us, let's be honest, about England going out of a World Cup. How are you doing?
How are you feeling? We've had a bit of time. Are you more reflective yet? Are you angry? Where are you at?
No, to be honest, I'm very calm with these things anyway. I like to be more... more reflective because you know some of the ups and downs of football like when you've got the ups it feels great but the downs are so so deep that sometimes it's worth just watching the game especially if allegedly you're going to be paid to think of it from a more neutral perspective so I think by the end of the game I had all the emotions. Like the first half, I thought England were really competitive and it's a really competitive game. And it felt good. Felt like an England-Argentina game where England were a bit more streetwise than we've seen in all the years gone by. And as a consequence, I thought, okay, this could be it.
And then England scored and I was like, this is going to be it. But then what happened next, I think, obviously this isn't a special thought or anything, but the better team comfortably went through in the end, which is a crazy thing to say. Because that drop-off from there being where they scored, England scored and they were in control. Well, not in control. England scored and they were leading and you could see how they were playing. And now on the sideline, they've got all the subs. It's a 20-something man squad. They've got everything you need. Whatever spice you need for this game, they're all available on the sideline. managers there is experienced he's the difference everything should have been great and then by the end you're thinking well what else did they expect because as well as England losing 2-1 MacArthur's hit the post twice Pickford's making saves you know it was very much just a case of watching England just suffer for the end and yes there's a disappointment but it feels like the right team went through unfortunately for England so
I think that's so true, Guillaume, because normally in a situation like this, we might sort of need you and Jules especially because we would sort of throw out the odd like, oh, can you believe that red card decision, et cetera, et cetera. But there is a bottom line there, isn't there? And Nadim just gave us it.
Yes. There's also the impression, as Nadim had and all of you, that... You're very, very close. You're very, very close. And this is not just bad luck, really, what took Argentina away, but certainly to get to that point where you could have beat Argentina in the semifinals of a World Cup, on the back of all the semifinals and all the finals, I would say, if you put all in context, it's a... competitive, successful era, if you like. I'm sure we're going to drill into what's missing, not to get there, but there are positives. I know nobody wants to hear them now. And a lot of it has to do with, as Nathan was saying, as... England were not scared of the kind of approach that you were to expect from Argentina.
Pushing the limit of the legality of the things they were doing, unsettling players. I saw Bellingham doing that with Messi. Wrong person to do it with. But it is part of the game and... There was a street wideness, using again Nadum's word, that it was pleasing to see.
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