Tuchel backs Bellingham after heated Ghana touchline clash

At the midpoint of a goalless draw in Boston, the friction between competitive will and composed conduct surfaced in the tunnel between England and Ghana. Jude Bellingham, a young man whose talent is matched only by the scrutiny his temperament invites, exchanged heated words with Ghana's veteran manager Carlos Queiroz — a moment that required a teammate's intervention to dissolve. England's manager Thomas Tuchel chose to read the episode as the honest heat of competition rather than a failure of character, even as Queiroz offered a different account. The incident joins a longer story about wh