Best-laid plans of the head coach fell apart with his likely World Cup leaders all missing during problematic friendlies at Wembley“We tried to build a football team in three days against Uruguay,” Thomas Tuchel says, unable to stop laughing at the end of the sentence. Ridiculous, the England head coach wants to add, although he stops short of that. But incredulity is the theme as he rows back over the past international camp, when best-laid plans fell apart and he came to feel boxed in by circumstances beyond his control.This is the way Tuchel wants to frame it, the way he tends to want to frame it when things go wrong. Which is certainly what happened in the 1-1 draw against Uruguay at Wembley last Friday and the 1-0 defeat by Japan on Tuesday, also at the national stadium. It is preferable to the alternative reading Continue reading...