kind of feels ignored most of the time, but english football has been having an identity crisis for well over a decade now. https://twitter.com/GraceOnFootball/status/1301273120989421568

eight english managers in the premier league: frank lampard, chris wilder, sean dyche, steve bruce, roy hodgson, graham potter, dean smith, scott parker. can anyone tell me a single tactical quality they all share?

Been finally reading @honigstein's excellent Englischer Fussball recently and he talks about how we eschewed technicians and distrust them. Post-2010 WC (book from 2009) we obsessed over players like Jack Wilshere and John Stones to "prove" that we can produce technicians...

...and as those guys and others have mostly fizzled out by what should be their peak years, it feels like that's been a dead end. So what even *is* English football now? Is it Sean Dyche's aggressive and direct football? Is it Graham Potter's passing patterns? Something else?