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In the opening scene of \u201cDear England,\u201d a new, four-part BBC bio-pic by James Graham, the camera focusses on a dot of white paint on a grassy surface. The year is 1996; the dot is the penalty spot at Wembley, the home of English soccer; and Gareth Southgate, a player for the national team, is about to miss a kick that would have kept alive his country\u2019s hope of winning the European Championship, a feat that, in the words of a popular song of the time, would have ended \u201cthirty years of hurt.\u201d (At that point, England had not won a major international tournament since 1966, when it lifted the World Cup.) Cut to 2016\u2014fifty years of hurt, and counting\u2014and an older Southgate (played by Joseph Fiennes) is sitting in a corridor at England\u2019s Football Association, where he is about to become the team\u2019s manager, initially on an interim basis. (He\u2019s waiting while his predecessor, Sam Allardyce, who lasted one game before undercover newspaper reporters ensnared him as part of a corruption investigation, is being told to resign.) Southgate seems to sense that England is badly broken, not only in its national soccer program but as a country; he was appointed weeks after the Brexit vote, and \u201cDear England\u201d doesn\u2019t shy from establishing this context. All the while, he remains haunted by his 1996 penalty miss. He wonders, at one point, whether there\u2019s an alternate universe in which he\u2019d scored, and England became \u201ca happier, more confident place as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A decade ago, when Southgate took the England manager\u2019s job in real life, it would have been hard to imagine him as the protagonist of a politically inflected prestige miniseries (never mind the hit stage play on which it was based). And yet his portrayal as a proxy for a nation\u2019s broader sense of itself is no mere narrative contrivance: Southgate really did position himself, and his players, at the center of such questions, with a dexterity that was unprecedented for a British sports coach and would lead the Athletic<\/em> to dub him \u201carguably the most important person\u201d in the past two decades of British public life. In 2021, after some England fans booed the players for taking a knee in protest of racism, Southgate penned an open letter (from which \u201cDear England\u201d would take its title) in the Players\u2019 Tribune, a website founded by Derek Jeter to publish first-person perspectives from professional athletes. He outlined a patriotism that was small-\u201cc\u201d conservative\u2014he extolled his grandfather\u2019s military service during the Second World War, as well as the pomp of royal pageants\u2014but also insisted that the rising tide of history would soon wash away the stain of bigotry in British society. \u201cI have never believed that we should just stick to football<\/em>,\u201d Southgate wrote, citing his players\u2019 \u201cduty to continue to interact with the public on matters such as equality, inclusivity and racial injustice.\u201d The actor Rory Kinnear read the letter aloud on the BBC\u2019s flagship radio program \u201cToday.\u201d Liberal pundits suggested that Southgate had set out a more cohesive case for Englishness than the empty nostalgia offered by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2014and even that Southgate might do a better job. Frank Luntz, the veteran American pollster, hailed the letter as one of the best he\u2019d ever read. He added a word of advice for politicians grasping for the right words: \u201cBe more like Gareth Southgate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Not bad for a man who\u2014as Barney Ronay, a sportswriter at the Guardian<\/em>, put it following Southgate\u2019s hiring, in 2016\u2014has the aura of \u201can ambitious young geography teacher hurrying into class three hours early to set up his papier mache sedimentary rock bed.\u201d Indeed, back then, Southgate faced questions not only about his personal gravitas but also about whether he was up to the job in a sporting sense. His most recent predecessors had all boasted glittering, or at least steady, track records and still could not get England further than a major-tournament quarterfinal; Southgate\u2019s managerial experience\u2014an undistinguished spell at Middlesbrough, then a Premier League also-ran, and a stint running an England youth squad\u2014was comparatively thin. And yet, he would succeed where glitzier names had failed. His England team reached the semifinal of the 2018 World Cup\u2014an overachievement that turned the waistcoat-clad Southgate into an unlikely international sex symbol and fashion icon\u2014and the final of the Euros twice, in 2021 (post-letter) and in 2024. Neither ended in a win, but when Southgate stepped down, after the 2024 final, the head of the F.A. said that he\u2019d made \u201cthe impossible job possible.\u201d Politics aside, the soccer, it turned out, wasn\u2019t bad, either.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Except, sometimes, it was. The vibes of the 2018 semifinal campaign were joyous, but England didn\u2019t always play well, and the team\u2019s ultimate defeat, to a Croatia side it perhaps should have beaten, was born of excessive caution; much the same thing happened in the 2021 Euros final, when England scored early against Italy, then sat back, labored, and eventually lost on penalty kicks. (Plus \u00e7a change.) Despite reaching the final for a second time, the 2024 team served up turgid fare in most of its matches, so much so that frustrated fans threw plastic beer cups at Southgate following a goalless tie against the minnows of Slovenia. That England avoided what would have been an embarrassing last-sixteen exit to Slovakia was thanks mostly to the individual brilliance of Jude Bellingham, its attacking prodigy, who scissored in an acrobatic finish at the death.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still unclear, from today\u2019s vantage point, whether Southgate\u2019s generational skill as therapist to the nation and father figure to his players got the most out of a flawed roster, or if his tactical shortcomings held back a team that was, at least by the end of his tenure, good enough to win. After Southgate resigned (seemingly to spend less time on soccer and more fretting about the social ills plaguing young men), the F.A. moved to replace him with Thomas Tuchel, a world-class coach and proven winner\u2014an approach that could end sixty years of hurt, but itself carries risks. In \u201cDear England,\u201d Southgate acknowledges to a psychologist, whom he had hired to work with the players, that \u201cI know I\u2019m not the best manager in the world,\u201d and she replies by asking, \u201cWhat is \u2018best\u2019\u00a0?\u201d England is about to find out.<\/p>\n

Southgate missed the decisive penalty, in 1996, in a match against Germany. Tuchel, born in Bavaria, did not line up for the opposition that day; he was a marginal player who, at the time, plied his trade semi-professionally for SSV Ulm 1846, a club in the third tier of Germany\u2019s domestic soccer pyramid. A couple of years later, an injury forced Tuchel to retire, aged just twenty-five. Afterward, he studied business and worked at a trendy night spot in Stuttgart, an industrial hub in southern Germany, where he graduated from collecting glasses to mixing drinks\u2014he has joked that he felt like Tom Cruise\u2019s character in the 1988 movie \u201cCocktail\u201d\u2014and made the acquaintance of a generation of emerging hip-hop and rap artists who patronized the place. In 1999, Tuchel\u2019s former club was sensationally promoted to the top tier, and he was left to wonder what might have been. If \u201cDear England\u201d makes much of Southgate\u2019s ongoing trauma from his missed penalty, he was, in the scheme of things, one of the lucky ones.<\/p>\n

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Later, Tuchel got himself back into soccer, first as a youth trainer at Stuttgart\u2019s local team, then, eventually, as the head coach at Mainz, a top-tier side. From there, his rise was meteoric. He moved around, managing several major European clubs, from the German giants Borussia Dortmund to the perennial French champions Paris Saint-Germain, to the London club Chelsea (where he won the Champions League, Europe\u2019s highest club honor), to the even gianter Germans of Bayern Munich. In October, 2024, he was unveiled as England\u2019s head coach. Jingoists howled with rage that a foreigner\u2014no, worse, a German<\/em>\u2014had got the England job. (The Daily<\/em> Mail<\/em>, a right-wing tabloid, declared it \u201cA DARK DAY FOR ENGLAND<\/em>.\u201d) But those not stuck in a perpetual Battle of Britain re\u00ebnactment took note of Tuchel\u2019s pedigree, albeit in the club, not international, game. In an imagined exchange at the end of \u201cDear England,\u201d Southgate and Tuchel meet, and Tuchel observes that \u201cten years ago, no truly world-class manager wanted this job.\u201d Southgate laughs, and asks, playfully, but with a hint of pain, whether \u201cthat\u2019s why I got it?\u201d Tuchel replies, \u201cWell, yes, exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible to overstate the differences between Southgate and Tuchel. Despite his touchy-feely reputation, Southgate could be ruthless, shelving experienced players in the name of squad renewal; Tuchel, for his part, has stressed the need for \u201cbrotherhood\u201d between his players. Nonetheless, the contrast is, in many ways, stark. More than one expert has described Tuchel as a sort of anti-Southgate; Frank Skinner observed that, whereas Southgate was like a dog-walker who never let his charge off the leash, Tuchel has \u201ca slight madness about him.\u201d (Skinner is a comedian, and not a soccer expert, per se\u2014though he did co-write \u201cThree Lions,\u201d the song of \u201cyears of hurt\u201d fame, and as such has a lifetime free pass to weigh in.) If Southgate had the vibe of a geography teacher, Tuchel\u2019s assistant coach has likened his boss\u2019s charisma to that of a movie star. (No word on whether he was thinking of Cruise.) Tuchel has, at least, been much blunter than Southgate in public, both about his squad\u2014he has said that Bellingham sometimes behaves with an aggression that Tuchel\u2019s mother finds \u201crepulsive\u201d\u2014and Southgate himself. Shortly after taking charge, he said that the 2024 Euros team looked too scared to win, and lacking in the requisite \u201cidentity, the clarity, the rhythm, the repetition of patterns, the freedom of players, the expression of players, the hunger.\u201d (He did apologize for the Bellingham remark.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tuchel is a much more sophisticated tactician than Southgate, but he has flamed out at past clubs, amid reports of fraught relations with players and colleagues. In the run-up to this World Cup, he set records with England. His team qualified with an unprecedented defensive prowess for a European team. He also (albeit in non-competitive games) oversaw England\u2019s first-ever defeats to teams from Africa (Senegal) and Asia (Japan). Last night, England played its first game of the tournament\u2014a rematch against Croatia, in Dallas\u2014and the defensive prowess was a speck on the horizon; both sides scored twice in a breathless first half. Early in the second half, however, Bellingham made it three-two, and a late fourth goal caused the pub I was in to erupt in chants of Skinner\u2019s song.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a long way to go, of course. Whatever happens next, it\u2019s already clear that Tuchel conceives of his role in more narrowly sporting terms than Southgate. It is hard to foresee him penning a manifesto for progressive patriotism in the Players\u2019 Tribune; indeed, he has said that he intends to \u201chide a little bit behind being not English, and not talk to everything that happens in your country.\u201d (This week, he said that he can\u2019t protect his players from racist abuse online, beyond advising them to log off.) Some soccer journalists have suggested that the job might weigh less heavily on Tuchel as a result; Ronay, of the Guardian<\/em>, wrote recently that his \u201clack of baggage\u201d might be \u201can advantage,\u201d in that \u201cthere will be zero England culture stuff. Nobody is going to talk about old maids cycling to church, or the cultural semiotics of cheddar cheese.\u201d Tuchel\u2019s approach might, at least, be grimly appropriate for a tournament whose organizers would surely like everyone to focus on the action, and ignore the stench of corruption and xenophobia in the air. It\u2019s no longer 2021. Southgate\u2019s confident assertion that the tide of history was turning against bigotry now looks utopian, or even na\u00efve. So, too, does the idea that a soccer coach could close fissures that even the well-meaning among career politicians have failed to seal.<\/p>\n

Of course, for all that Southgate cast \u201csticking to football\u201d as a poor moral choice, it might also just be impossible. Politics has a habit of intruding on sport, as Tuchel knows well; he was in charge of Chelsea when Russia invaded Ukraine, and the club\u2019s owner, the oligarch Roman Abramovich, was hit by government sanctions and forced to sell. As the Byline Times<\/em> has pointed out, Tuchel\u2019s England squad remains a testament to a certain vision of Britishness by virtue of its multicultural makeup, even as it represents a country in which far-right politics are ascendant, and have recently exploded into violence. Perhaps the cleanest rebuke of noisy nativism would be for England to win, and, if Tuchel can take that final step that eluded Southgate, he\u2019ll be immortalized, too\u2014perhaps in a prestige miniseries of his own, and a more straightforwardly triumphal one at that. If he fails, England might find itself lumbered with both the toxic politics of 2026 and the underperforming, disconnected soccer team that Southgate inherited a decade ago. Either way, some hurt feels inevitable.\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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