If Jude Bellingham is to force his way back into England’s best team then he would be wise to cut out the nonsense. His reaction when he saw that his number was about to come up after an evening of inconsistency in Tirana was not good enough.
It was a challenge to Thomas Tuchel’s authority and was hardly a clever look given that it added to the sense that this is a player who is yet to realise that his immediate international future hinges on embracing the collective.
