Tuchel’s brash Britpop football is music to England ears before Ghana test

Vinyl has baffled youngsters at the team’s hotel but spells of opening victory against Croatia showed side in the groove

Inside the foyer of the England team hotel in Kansas City, along with the TV screens that show the World Cup matches, there is an anachronism. It is a record player and it is worth reporting there were younger members of the squad who looked genuinely baffled by it. What were these strange plastic circles that went on it?

The Football Association found out the favourite songs of each player and obtained vinyl versions of them. And very popular the whole thing has been, even if Harry Kane has been determined to play country and western on it. Harry, this is not leadership.

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