Anyone who thinks that with so many star players on the pitch, the manager is almost superfluous should watch the semi-final from the other night again. The England manager’s misjudgement and the cloying rhetoric about Argentina

The Argentine national team beat England 1–2. First Enzo Fernández and then Lautaro Martínez converted the passes from Lionel Messi into goals. The England manager, however, played his part in losing the semi-final