Tuchel is the third non-English manager to take charge of the Three Lions after Sven Goran-Eriksson and Fabio Capello. So, will he sing the English anthem?
He told reporters on Friday: “I will earn it with results, with building a group, with doing my job properly and by creating a feeling where maybe even you guys say at some point, ‘Now it’s time that you sing it, it feels like you properly earned it and you’re a proper English guy now’. Maybe I have to dive more into the culture and earn my right from you, from the players, from the supporters, so everyone feels like, ‘He should sing it now, he’s one of our own, he’s the English manager, he should sing it’.”
Asked if he believed he had earned the right to sing the national anthem now, he said with a grin: “You think it is already there? I will think about it.”
Asked if he might sing the national anthem at the World Cup, he again smiled and said, “Yeah, maybe. Let’s see.”