In the midst of a tight four-day turnaround that offers precious little time for re-tuning, England are left in bittersweet symphony, desperate to hit the right note in their final group game on Saturday.
Like the rest of the country, Thomas Tuchel was positively purring after his team sang Oasis with fans after swatting aside Croatia, and he offered a history lesson to us all by quoting the late Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan in explaining that the key to directing an orchestra is “don’t disturb the music”.
