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Is Thomas Tuchel a secret agent sent by Friedrich Merz’s government to ruin the UK economy and education system so as to make life easier for German exporters? I know the answer to that is probably no, but I ask only because of the England manager’s extraordinary call on parents to allow their children to play truant after staying up to watch his plodding footballers muff their chances against Mexico early on Monday morning. “Write an excuse and let them watch football,” he said. “There’s so much school to go to, but the World Cup is every four years.”
The last thing workshy Britain needs is an outsider egging us on to do less work
The last thing workshy Britain needs is an outsider egging us on to do even less work. Actually, there is not all that much school to go to, not when you extract the days kids had off last week because it was too hot, the days they have off every time a snowflake lands on their school, teachers’ strikes, days off for staff training and all the other ways that the school year has been steadily eroded. It is hardly as if the England team have reached the final; Monday is just a last 16 match. For the professional hires who make up the England team it will be just one more day at the office, and it should be for the rest of us, too.
