The Jude Bellingham – crisis threatens to blow up the English camp – here is the drastic movement that Thomas Tuchel has to make now, writes Oliver Holt

There are occasions in which many of us have reached the word ‘disgusting’ in the context of sport in the past 25 years.

For some, watching parts of Spain fans who abuse Shaun Wright-Phillips and Ashley Cole racist during a ‘friendly’ against England There would have been one in the Bernabeu in 2004.

For others, about reading West ham defender Kurt Zouma The kicking and hitting of his cat around his kitchen would have been another.

Hearing the details of the allegations of violent abuse against tennis star Alexander Zverev By two separate women: that would also have justified the use of the word.

It is an emotionally adjective. It carries a connotation of moral relegation and a suggestion that it refers to an action that the observer has physically ill. It is full of disgust. You could reserve it for a horrible one crime Or a particularly unsavory action.

Where I difference with Thomas Tuchel – or his mother – is that it never occurred to me to use it in reference to the posture Jude Bellingham Adopts on a football field.

Haughty, maybe. Confronting, yes. Determined and committed, certainly. Early ready, fierce, intuitive, intelligent? Absolute. Disgusting? No.

Let’s remember something right now: Jude Bellingham is 21 years old. He is still practically a child. He is still impulsive, like most young men. Sometimes he sees enemies where there is no existence. Sometimes the enemies are real. Experience will teach him to distinguish between the two.

What he has achieved so far in his career is incredibly impressive. He is an exceptional midfielder. Away from the field he treats people with courtesy and respect. Tuchel also referred to some of those qualities.

But language is important and language is powerful and language will be repeated by the opponents of Bellingham, and even if Tuchel was in an excellent interview on talking on Wednesday that it was his mother who found Bellingham’s behavior, not he, the damage was done. The bomb has exploded.

Bellingham will now follow that word, like a loyal street dog who turns to his heel. ‘Refueling’ stalked Paul Gascoigne for the rest of his career after the then English manager Graham Taylor called it in connection with him. The internet does not forget and fanculture does not.

Exercises in damage limitation, I suspect, will follow soon. England can blame Tuchel’s comments about a language problem. The point was lost in translation from German to English, they can say.

But that is loaded with problems because clear communication and avoiding misunderstandings are two of the reasons that many thought that England should stay with an English manager when Gareth Southgate left the job.

It is the kind of diplomatic disaster that the FA must have known that they were on the years when they appointed Tuchel, who has a reputation for strengthening feathers. The organization Achie around Bellingham, the prodigy in their midst, since he made his debut in England in November 2020. Now this.

Bellingham’s notoriously confronting father, Mark, quickly became angry with me when I told him last year for the Champions League final how much I admired his older son.

So God only knows what he will make from Tuchel who Jude merges with the word ‘repulsive’, even if it is broken by what the English manager says is the opinion of his mother.

I suspect that a poor soul at the FA was holding a telephone receiver for a few hours on Wednesday evening, while Mr Bellingham told them exactly what he thought of Mrs. Tuchel – and perhaps also her son in the aftermath of his delight about the ‘intimidating’ attitude of Jude.

The wider point here is that England now has a problem, a problem that is larger than a 3-1 home defeat against Senegal, a scratching victory over Andorra and an uncomfortable feeling that the FA is just starting to realize how much they could throw away when they could go through Southgate and appointed Tuchel to replace it.

The feeling that merging with England was something to enjoy, instead of something to fear, was cultivated by Southgate, but is already dissipating under Tuchel. Tuchel’s comments on Wednesday will probably not encourage Bellingham to embrace English culture.

The FA have spent the last five years around Bellingham and his father and guided to his demands.

The result, which was not well received by teammates, is that Bellingham receives a special treatment compared to the rest of the team by never being asked to speak with the press.

It’s time to end that. It is time for Bellingham to stop being treated as a man apart and it’s time for the FA to stop his father’s soothing and tells him that his son will be treated just like any other member of the English team is treated.

The FA has been afraid of alienating Bellingham for some time, because they know that their vague hope for winning the World Cup next year will not shrink until nothing without him. Tuchel faux pas If that harmful distance brings to a conclusion, at least a number of good will have come out.

My own solution for the Bellingham problem would be more drastic because something radical has to be done to change the tone of the discussion about a special talent.

Bellingham is the best player in England and yet it only takes a fleeting look on social media to understand that many supporters are being alienated by his body language and his attitude towards his teammates.

We can claim that we want everything about whether Tuchel wanted to use the word ‘disgusting’, whether it accurately reflects his mother’s views, whether someone should care what the coach of the coach thinks, whether he is being overwhelmed or not.

But the reality remains that the coach of England, unintentionally or not, has fed the negative story that grows around Bellingham.

Bellingham should be an overwhelming positive for England. The idea that a word as repulsive even in the discussion around him shows you completely how far we have lost sight of what an active he is.

Perhaps Bellingham also bears some responsibility. Perhaps his attitude towards his teammates should be more encouraging.

Let him captain, give him more responsibility, tell him that it is his job to eliminate the standards of the people around him and maybe that would change.

Bellingham is big enough for that. He could handle that. It would take him even more out of him as a player.

If he feels like an outsider, what is there a better way to solve that? What is a better way or use the energy for the general good than making him skipper?

England starts to look like a team that is stuck. Moral falls. Confidence is lost. The ‘repellent’ remark of Tuchel will only hurry that trend.

He has to do work and relationships to repair. He should start giving Bellingham the bracelet.