KEVIN MCCALLUM: England true to Teutonic roots in appointing Tuchel
Choosing the new coach has elicited the fury of the Daily Mail and the singers of ‘God Save Our (German) King’
18 October 2024 - 05:00
It has escaped those England fans and writers who have a rather large problem with Thomas Tuchel’s German-ness that their royal family has German roots.
When Queen Anne died on August 1 1714, “the German Elector George Louis of Hanover was proclaimed king of Great Britain in absentia”, noted the DW agency. “He was the only possible heir to the throne, and the first German to ascend an English throne...
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