His name escapes me now but apparently the young English bloke in charge of new Zealand is meant to be good
The Mail has 'The Arrrse' Wenger as favourite ................... seems to be a good fit, seeing that they played shhhhit!.
Please remind me what Stuart Pearce has won as a manager. I can't recall anything. My only memory is of watching his under 21, olympic & club sides playing with no passion & no direction. Meanwhile, Pearce just sat on his backside with a blank expression. Add to this bringing a goalkeeper on as substitute & playing him as a centre forward when his side badly needed a goal. That is not exactly a good entry on his CV. Pearce as a manager is a big difference to what he showed as a player. And yes, seriously. Eddie Howe HAS won far more as a manager than Pearce.
Surprised no-one has mentioned Sean Dyche, who I rate very highly. He's now an English Premier League Manager again, and he's someone who doesn't take any nonsense, is articulate, and is tactically astute. His Burnley team all seem to work their socks off for him too. Dyche as Manager with Shearer as his assistant
Any chance you can stick on topic? Disagree with my opinion, but there's no need to make any personal comments.
By 'far more' you mean promotion. That's a huge difference - not. Face it - no English manager has won anything for over a decade. Certainly nothing that in any way prepares them for a job as an International coach. I can see Southgate stumbling into the job through no other candidate being deemed 'suitable'. At least Pearce has passion, has worked at International Level, and wears the three lions on his sleeve. Howe still looks like he's a kitten caught in the headlights when I see him on TV, and is barely experienced enough for the job he's got now. Rodgers was given basically whatever he wanted at Liverpool and won nothing. Hoddle hasn't managed a team for over a decade, and was an abject failure when he did. And you lot are saying my opinion is dumb? Until you have any proper suggestions, or can come up with names that have the experience and attitude we need, don't slate me for putting him forward.
Wrong, Redknapp won the FA Cup 8 years ago. The problem is no English manager has been given a top job in England in the past decade so its very dificult to judge if they can cut it. In the past 12 months, Liverpool, United, City and Chelsea have all changed manager, I don't recall an Englishman being considered for any of those jobs. Until those clubs give an opportunity to the likes of Howe or Dyche we'll never have a manger that has won anything of note. However, we've tried old experienced managers, foreign managers, FA "yes" men and none have worked, why not roll the dice and give the opportunity to a young manager with a modern approach to the game. Look what Northern Ireland have done, they went against the norm and appointed a young manager from within their own league and have been rewarded with a great qualifying campaign and a good Euro's.
Thanks for the kind offer Peter - but we already have you pencilled in to replace George as Chancellor of the Exchequer
Just seen that Klinsmann has said the job "interests" him. If the FA want a more experienced manger and don't believe there is a viable, British, candidate, then of all the foreign names mentioned, he'd be my first choice. But when the man tasked with finding a new manager admits "I'm no football expert", what chance have we got? The selection committee should, without doubt, include a recently retired England International. Steven Gerrard, Lampard, Terry, but it doesn't, its made up of 3 men who have never played the game.
I was thinknig of Klinnsmann too , he's no nonsense think he dropped Landon Donovan for the 2014 world cup which was quite controverstial. I'd go for Hoddle as well.
That just highlights the expectations we still put on the team. We may say that we want to play well, and in truth, had we beaten Iceland and then lost to France in the quarter finals, we'd probably mark it as an OK effort. Certainly that's about what I would have expected beforehand, to be honest. But even though we weren't playing well, and even though we all saw that Roy's squad pick and then team picks were poor, we reached the same stage as Northern Ireland. And then say that they had a good Euros, whereas we had a disastrous one. When Russia 2018 comes round, we should look at the start as a level playing field, knowing that any team could beat us, and celebrating what successes we manage to achieve. Getting through the group should be a success to be applauded, not (as was the case this year) a failure to win the group. We won't, though, and here's why: In reality, when it comes to England, we're all just like Chelsea fans. If only we could support our national team the same way we support QPR....
