Who should be the next England manager?
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tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
corporate whore said:
yeah. now we're talking.
When Brooking was manager of West Ham it was a very enjoyable, liberating experience (even though we went down) - proper attacking football, and Uncle Trev stood on the sidelines.
Unfortunately he said at the time that his wife would never allow him to be a football manager, so there is no way he would take the England job I'm afraid.
Donna Ferentes
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You may well be right.tommers said:cos he wouldn't take the job?
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
tommers said:yeah. now we're talking.
When Brooking was manager of West Ham it was a very enjoyable, liberating experience (even though we went down) - proper attacking football, and Uncle Trev stood on the sidelines.
Unfortunately he said at the time that his wife would never allow him to be a football manager, so there is no way he would take the England job I'm afraid.
See, I genuinely think that's a shame - he seems to be rotting away at the FA, as some kind of Ambassador Without Portfolio yet he certainly knows more about the game than Barwick, who's again taken it upon himself to find the next manager. Who's going to take him seriously after the Scolari fandango? At least if Trev turned up he'd get some respect..
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
corporate whore said:
he's in charge of football development isn't he?
but yeah, he'd certainly do a better job of finding the next manager than barwick will.
It was refreshing to have a manager who obviously liked playing the game "the right way" and who preferred attacking football. He almost kept us up too.....
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
tommers said:
Is he? Didn't know.. he'll probably be root-and-branched out by Barwick..
goldenecitrone
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Ray Mears. He's good at surviving in the wilderness.
#sleaterkinney said:
As I said, hes angling for a role - dont be surprised to see him somewhere in the mix in a month or two. YOu may alos find Rob Lee dragged into the FA mix lower down the line at Shearers request
he wont get involved & move up until he knows its decent bet for success.
crafty fox is shearer
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Actually, might as well flounce.
corporate whore said:Is he? Didn't know.. he'll probably be root-and-branched out by Barwick..
Please don't remind me about that Indonesian bloke again. He made me feel ill.
What about someone from outside the higher echelons of club football? Yesterday was yet more evidence that English club football doesn't have the correlation to international performance that some put forth, with atrocious performances from Lampard and Gerrard in particular.
There are Englishmen with international experience. Venables won't get it for a number of reasons, but what about Bristol City's Gary Johnson (superb record of getting the best out of lesser-known players and ex-manager of Latvia) or Roy Hodgson (massive continental experience with Inter, amongst others, and internationals with Switzerland, UAE and Finland)? You can say that they haven't managed top players (Hodgson has), but look at the showing by our "top players" last night.
There are Englishmen with international experience. Venables won't get it for a number of reasons, but what about Bristol City's Gary Johnson (superb record of getting the best out of lesser-known players and ex-manager of Latvia) or Roy Hodgson (massive continental experience with Inter, amongst others, and internationals with Switzerland, UAE and Finland)? You can say that they haven't managed top players (Hodgson has), but look at the showing by our "top players" last night.
Why do people rate O'Neil as such a strong candidate? IMO he's a similar manager to Curbs - very very good at motivating below-par players to fight above their weight, but I can't see him being the man to get England's bunch of egos to pull their finger out. That would take someone with a bigger ego than them, a top continental coahc.
Donna Ferentes
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Redknapp's teams play good football, at least, so he would be an improvement on mclaren.
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g force
Affects Shatner's Basoon
Should be one of:
Lippi
Capello
Mourinho
Benitez
Wenger
Hiddink
There's no decent British option. For all the talk of Redknapp - he's done bugger all - show me the bulging trophy cabinet because you can't be a wheeler dealer at international level. You get what you're given in terms of prolly 20 players who could play internationally and make the most it.
Ditto Broooking...what has he actually won as a manager? O'Neill....hmmm....may be a top bloke but I have my doubts.
Lippi
Capello
Mourinho
Benitez
Wenger
Hiddink
There's no decent British option. For all the talk of Redknapp - he's done bugger all - show me the bulging trophy cabinet because you can't be a wheeler dealer at international level. You get what you're given in terms of prolly 20 players who could play internationally and make the most it.
Ditto Broooking...what has he actually won as a manager? O'Neill....hmmm....may be a top bloke but I have my doubts.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
The only view on this that really matters is the Sports Editor of the Sun. If he doesn't like the sound of the proposed England appointment, he'll just hound him until he walks away; his whole private life, photographers following his family 24 hours a day, ringing the doorbell and phone - also 24 hours a day.
Absolutely one huge power trip.
Absolutely one huge power trip.
g force said:
Re. redknapp... my only point is that his england teams would at least be more entertaining than mclaren's. Thing is though when he managed west ham, we either won 4-2 or lost 7-0. Can't see the english fans liking that
although I do think he's improved since those days.I don't think brooking is a serious candidate. But his win ratio as west ham manager is probably one of the greatest ever
something like played 15 won 10 draw 3 lost 2.... not that it means much.Agreed about o'neill. We need a proper big name.
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London_Calling said:
I'd go for an Englishman tbh.
Stuart Pearce, Alan Shearer, Harry (watch your silver) Redknapp,
Forget big name foreigners - they cost too much money.
Don't break the bank chasing a dream that's not going to happen, it's been done, it didn't work out.
Save the money and spend it at grass roots level.
Stuart Pearce, Alan Shearer, Harry (watch your silver) Redknapp,
Forget big name foreigners - they cost too much money.
Don't break the bank chasing a dream that's not going to happen, it's been done, it didn't work out.
Save the money and spend it at grass roots level.
Donna Ferentes
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So they should make the same mistake they just made?Relahni said:
Sneaky bastard.g force said:
Yes, look at Citeh. Given fuck all money - had to sell players and he kept them up against the odds.
If he had the money Sven had I'm sure they would be top half of the table.
Shearer a joke?!?! Bollocks, I can imagine his team talks, with Phil Collins blasting out of the stereo in the changing room to get the players fired up!
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