tbh i dont know if its because im fairly young but i do not care about the rivalries between england, scotland, wales and ireland. i would love to see a team gb purely for the fact england would get bale and ramsey and also the best british managers are not english. and to be completely honest i feel more as british as i do english
Brenden Rodgers is not leaving as to manage a national team. Managers for countries can be from any where. Like our boy Sven. Wenger for England!
No. Woy is Cack! We still wouldn't be favourites- but we WOULD be a better team. I dare say that if we had always played as "GREAT BRITAIN" instead of separate countries that we would have more than title. Think back to great Scottish players, and Welsh players through the ages... Ian Rush in an England shirt in his prime... yes please! In 2014... and for the last few world cups... yeah, England has had the lion's share of the better GB players. Go back a couple of decades though and Scotland and Wales used to have some very good players and would have made a larger impression on team GB. Theoretically, there could come another day when all the best British players are Scots or Welsh- just like as has happened in the past. Maybe in 2014 playing as a union would make only a small difference... but over the course of history, it could mean more trophies... and even today... we'll win sod all... but if we had Bale and Ramsey.... yeah, that might make a difference, get us one or two stages further along. Although unlikely still, we'd still have a marginally better chance at a title. I have a difficult time thinking of a manager worse than Hodgson.
Moyes took the champions to 6th. Hodgson took a team that finished 2nd 2 seasons prior and drug it down around the relegation zone. I would say Woy was worse than Moyes. It's not just us either... Woy has a history of doing absolutely drastically bad with every other club he was with... Yeah... he had some successes in there- but 50% of the teams he managed he was beyond crap.
Fluke! Hodgson's British endeavours: Bristol: Sacked after 4 months. Blackburn: Had a good first season taking them from 13th- 6th- but ultimately sacked after taking Blackburn dead last in table. Fulham: A cup final. Not bad! Liverpool: Taking team that was 2nd two seasons prior, to the relegation zone. Sacked after half a year. West Brom: Not bad, 10th... but his replacement, Steve Clark, in his first ever management role- got 8th (doing better than Hodgson) in his first ever season managing. England: A dreadful European Cup, performances far below expectations. So far 100% loss rate in World Cup. Overall... It's a very mediocre (at best) resumé for Roy Hodgson looking at his experiences in England. Only the cup final for Fulham stands out. If it wasn't for his record in the backwaters of Scandinavia, he'd never have got the England job. Woy: good enough for Scandinavian club teams and that's about all. (... and he even got Scandinavian clubs relegated) Internationally- he did pretty well as a younger man managing Switzerland- but in more recent years was a disaster for UAE and Finland. He has the highest loss ratio of any Finland manager.
Hodgson also took Fulham from bottom to 7th and saved West Brom from relegation. We finished 7th in Rafa's final season. We also had a terrible situation with owners. It was very hard for Roy. And dont ignore Roy's Inter Milan and International career. Hodgson is better than Moyes.
Roy did do well at Fulham! You could say WBA too- although he was completely outshone by a complete manager-rookie who took over managing WBA and did a better job than experienced Roy. He managed to do decent with Inter Milan's giant budget... and they were one of the biggest clubs in the world at the time- and he did well with a Scandinavian club. (got others relegated) Rafa's team underperformed significantly in his last season. We were one or two star players from the team that finished 2nd the previous season though. What did Roy do? Sign a bunch of worse players in their 30s and told our top players to stop playing football and play hoofball or they wouldn't see any action. Internationally- he did decently with Switzerland but absolutely tanked with Finland and UAE. He's probably be sacked from more clubs after being with them less than a year than any other manager. As many appointments as he has had- his one or two successes are heavily outweighed. Moyes did brilliantly for years with Everton- he kept them punching above their (financial) weight. Now Martinez is outperforming him... but Moyes did well at Everton. Before Everton- he took relegation threatened Preston to promotion instead. Moyes has a 2/3 success rate at clubs he has been to. Hodgson is closer to 3/12 success rate.
It's colloquial English and therefore, completely allowed. Don't attempt to drag me down to your 'drug' level
i'd not go so far as to say he was outshone by clarke.... I have to say that hodgosn epitomizes everything that is beige and average in life. He is in fact the james may of the english game. Yes he's there but god he's dull Moyes on the other hand is what he is, on the road to being another hodgson. better or worse... who gives a flying f.. dull football, stilted controlling characters who have one thing in common.. both got jobs that were/are too big for them. England need a jermey clarkson type in charge... like harry redknapp who now takes every chance he gets to snipe at the fa and england fro not appoitning him. you know you'd nget no further and actually he is even more incompetant but you'd enjoy the ride far more. (example James may doing aston martin review... middle car, all sports cars are ruined by ride etc etc, or range rover in nevada... you'd fall asleep listening to him drone. contrast to clarkson shouting power and speeeeed and tooling around in power slides) actually england remind me a lot of some of their builds.. utterly useless... yet still compelling watching that you know will end only one way.
