England’s players have been effusive in their praise for Thomas Tuchel’s half-time talk, but the words ITV viewers heard were very different, in the form of a refreshingly frank interview with his assistant, Anthony Barry.
In-game interviews of staff are another novel broadcasting feature of this World Cup, like the innovative use of refcam, but rather than fob off a reporter with some meaningless platitudes about the lads giving it 110% Barry gave an honest assessment of the team’s failings up to that point.
