Now improve that style!
That is more important than the result against Holland tonight.
Football is a collective enterprise, a game where you have to keep improving your teamwork, your passing rhythms, your plugging of gaps, your support runs.
That’s not easy if a team only plays about 10 games a year.
Lovely to beat the Germans, always.
Immense fun to come back from 2-0 down and win 3-2.
Germany were 2-0 up at half-time and thinking it should have been 3-0 because a Mario Gomez goal had been wrongly disallowed for offside.
The World Champions have big players from Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund and none of them wanted to get injured in March.
So the Germans did not match our enthusiasm or focus.
Instead they played a crafty gane, believing in their superiority, wanting to coast, to do just enough to nick a win while being smart enough to know that a draw was no tragedy.
Seeing that keeper Jack Butland had injured himself but had stupidly decided to play on, the cute Tony Kroos punished him with a beautifully placed shot for 1-0 in 42.
Gomez made it 2-0 with a very nice header past Fraser Forster in 57. They thought they were going to walk it and figured Harry Kane could not hurt them by running away from their goal after a loose ball in the box.
But Kane made a clever turn and smacked his shot through legs and in off the post.
That’s a typical Harry Kane goal.
He likes to hit them early and hard. He’s scored loads of goals by doing things like that. And he has proved to be a very good judge of when to shoot and when not to shoot
Jamie Vardy then came on as a sub and three minutes later scored a Denis Law goal, flicking home the equaliser with his left foot when right back Clyne’s cross skimmed just behind him.
England were knocking it around like Spurs, with Dele Alli making runs, playing passes, having shots from distance. Then he missed a sitter, shooting over the bar.
It was still 2-2 when we got a corner in stoppage time.
Jordan Henderson fired it towards the near post and Eric Dier, 22, headed the winner.
Watching Engerland is often torture but we loved winning in Berlin
We deserved toi win.
And when German coach Jogi Low reviews the DVD he will see just how slackadaisaical and sloppy his team was.
Holland tonight on ITV?
A totally different game with a much-changed starting X1.
But Drinkwater is a Spurs-type midfielder.
Hodgson’s task is clear now: he has seven weeks to get England playing like Spurs.
What is the Spurs style?
An urgent style of pressing and forward passing and momentum.
A dynamic style that employs Deli Alli to maximum advantage. Dele makes runs for Harry Kane, looks for flicks from him, wants a knockdown from Harry, wants a cross from him, wants through pass from him.
And sometimes he makes a run for a 60-yard pass from Toby Aldeweireld.
The Spurs style is impatient, British, exciting, full of desire and spirit.
And it’s put Spurs second in the Premier League, above Arsenal, Manchester United, Citeh and Chelsea.
And also above a very good West Ham team.
The Tottenham style that depends on Eric Dier.
Anchorman Dier was a centreback, as Mauricio Pochettino was, before the manager began to use him to protect his centrebacks while the fullbacks went raiding down the flanks. Dier has to play a responsible, strategic game, joining in the play as needed but making sure he never gets caught ahead of the ball.
Pochettino is the hottest young manager in football today.
And he will be at Spurs for two more years.
Remarkably, 11 of England’s last 19 debutants have been coached by Pochettino!