The people who believe that when a successor to Gareth Southgate is needed, he should be English, have a reasonably compelling argument.
In principle, I very much agree. Very much. And in an ideal world, it would have been good if the head coach of the English rugby union team over the past seven years had been English. And in an ideal world, it would be good if the head coaches of the English cricket team were English, although we would not have had Baz-ball or would probably not be T20 world champions and 50-over world champions.
And in an ideal world, we would probably have had a Great British rowing coach for the couple of decades when Jurgen Grobler oversaw a golden Olympic age. If football thinks it is, currently, different, then fine. No problem at all.
