It has become an implacable conviction, the notion that the next England manager needs to be English...as a principle for strengthening the national team in the post-Gareth Southgate era, it is anything but convincing.
To agitate for the full English is to believe in a bloodline of homegrown winners. But for all that deathless Football Association talk of 'DNA', coaching pedigree is one fundamental that the country has not worked out how to replicate.
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