"The omissions of Harry Maguire, Cole Palmer and Phil Foden will leave many supporters baffled. Yet Tuchel has never been interested in popularity contests or picking players on reputation alone"

Here we are then, at the gates of North America, 26 Englishmen tasked with winning a football tournament on 19 July. Cue two months of febrile debate, anxiety and at the end of it…

Big names like Cole Palmer, Phil Foden and Harry Maguire have been snubbed by Thomas Tuchel, who has made some brutal calls with his England squad for the World Cup