Eamon Dunphy takes aim at Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher as he has his say on Thomas Tuchel to England

Already, he has been hammered by Little Englanders who can't see beyond their own shores

For 18 months, a documentary crew from Channel 4 followed Graham Taylor as he tried to keep England's doomed qualification campaign for the 1994 World Cup on track.

Taylor famously went into meltdown during those qualifiers, and the inane catchphrase that he kept repeating - 'do I not like that' - followed him around for years.

But the title chosen by Channel 4 for that documentary tells us a lot. Their television diary of what it's like to be England manager was entitled 'An Impossible Job'.

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Thomas Tuchel is the latest to try and show that it isn't impossible. Already, he has been hammered by Little Englanders who can't see beyond their own shores.

Who would have thought that Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher would join their ranks. That's Carragher, who won all his medals playing for a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a Scot. That's Carragher, who came out of international retirement to play for an Italian.

That's Neville, who never shuts up about the greatness of the Scot that he played for.

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That's Neville, who worked as Roy Hodgson's assistant with England - Hodgson had previously managed Switzerland, the UAE and Finland at international level.

That's Carragher and Neville, who have been cheerleaders for the Premier League for years. Unless you've been living in a cave, you'll be aware that not one of the Premier League's truly great managers - think of Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp - were English.

They both have been going on and on about how the England job should go to an Englishman. Who? Eddie Howe or Graham Potter? Howe won the Championship nine years ago. Potter won the Swedish Cup with Ostersun in 2017.

That's the sum total of the trophies won by both men. A Championship and a Swedish Cup. But they'd probably sing 'God Save the King' to keep the Little Englanders happy...

In Tuchel, England have got lucky in that he is a successful manager with real steel. He's pragmatic and not fixated on anyone way of playing too.

He bottled up Pep Guardiola's City to give Chelsea the Champions League but he has also presided over fine attacking displays too. Even though they didn't win the Bundesliga last season, Harry Kane scored more goals for Tuchel than for any other manager in his career in a season.

Tuchel could do very well with England, as they have so many top players. But he should remember what the England job did to Fabio Capello. When he was appointed, it was on the back of a track record as one of the most successful managers in world football.

He had been in management for 20 years and had won the Champions League, seven Serie A titles and two La Ligas.

That is a serious haul of silverware by any man's standards.

But Capello was diminished by the England job. They ended up stinking the place out at the 2010 World Cup. His reputation took a battering.

Capello was handed a salary of stg6m a year for a very good reason.

England were shambolic under his predecessor, Steve McClaren, and they needed someone who had made an impact at a higher level than Middlesbrough.

Much was made of Capello's image as a strict disciplinarian and that had led to comparisons with Alf Ramsey.

Back in November 2008, Capello made Steven Gerrard travel 400 miles to be checked by England's medical staff because he didn't trust Liverpool's insistence that the player was injured and unfit to travel to Berlin to face Germany in a friendly.

Ramsey once responded to a curfew-breaking jaunt by six England players on the eve of a trip to Portugal by placing their passports on their beds while they were out.

But that hardline approach didn't work out. Key players - notably John Terry, who criticised him openly in a press conference - turned against Capello.

Like nearly everyone who has managed England, the Italian couldn't work out a way to make them serious contenders.

That is something Gareth Southgate managed, but there was no master plan to put him in charge. He landed the job by accident.

England were a disaster at the 2016 European Championships - bowing out to Iceland in the last 16.

Roy Hodgson's contract came to an end and Sam Allardyce was announced as his successor in July of that year.

Allardyce signed a two year contract but he lasted just 67 days - and one competitive match.

He was caught in a newspaper sting, making damaging comments about getting around FA rules on the third party ownership of players.

What many remember most from that video clip was the footage of Allardyce drinking what seemed to be a pint of white wine.

He was shoved out the door and, with a World Cup qualifying double-header against Malta and Slovenia just over a week away, the FA needed to think fast.

Southgate was promoted from the Under-21s to take the job on a caretaker basis. He did well enough to get the job on a permanent basis.

It just shows you that appointing managers isn't an exact science.

Southgate's record as a boss was very mixed. He'd qualified the England Under-21s for the European Championship but they finished bottom of their group.

At club level, his only job was with Middlesbrough. He had three seasons in the Premier League, and they were relegated in his third.

Just four games into their Championship campaign in the 2009/10, Southgate was sacked.

Compare Southgate's CV to other England managers of the past.

He had achieved nothing like Hodgson, or Fabio Capello, or Sven Goran-Eriksson, or Bobby Robson, or Don Revie.

But he took the national team to heights that they were never able to reach.

Tuchel is the man in the spotlight, and I feel for Lee Carsley, as he had to deal with so much nonsense.

But his difficulties with England could be Ireland's opportunity. Heimir Hallgrimsson's contract only takes him up to the World Cup.

Carsley will likely still be with the England Under-21s then. He's had a taste of senior international football with Ireland. Carsley might yet be a future Ireland manager.

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