Pardew... "Count me out"

[Le God]

Just be grateful the days of Big Sam being considered are over!

Though actually, interesting question - would you take four barren England years of Big Sam at the helm of the national side as a destabilising mechanism for West Ham that resulted in us getting promoted this season?

Big Sam is a good manager. He knows how to get results. A better manager than Redknapp for definite. I don't care if he doesn't play nice football, football is about results not losing games 4-3 or losing and looking pretty

 

[OddRiverOakWizards]

Just be grateful the days of Big Sam being considered are over!

Though actually, interesting question - would you take four barren England years of Big Sam at the helm of the national side as a destabilising mechanism for West Ham that resulted in us getting promoted this season?

I also briefly wondered what effect that would have on West Ham too. But surely the FA are not that desperate and WHam would then appoint Neil Warnock, so no change really.

 

[SAINTDON13]

The England job wouldn't suit everybody. Perhaps Pardew prefers day to day contact with the players.

and their wives?

 

[(Conor)]

Why on earth not? Harry Redknapp manages a team who are arguably a better team than England. There are currently only two managers in the entire country, of any nationality, performing better than him - one is arguably the best football manager of all time; the other manages the most expensively constructed team of world beaters of all time. Massively inflated view of our national team we have - we're like the national equivalent of Villa at best. Capable of beating anyone on a good day, good bet for half a tournament run - but those good days come about once a season. The world's top managers wouldn't actually be that interested in the job if it wasn't for the massive salary it pays - and some not even then.

Harry Redknapp may be a decent manager, but there's a reason why he's only got one major trophy in his career. Plus he has no international managerial experience, and forgive if I'm wrong, but did the last manager not have any international managerial experience?

If any English manager should be seriously considered, it's Roy Hodgson purely on the fact he's the only one out there who's been there and actually did well with his resources whilst managing the Swiss and Finnish national teams. But of course, West Brom aren't doing too great at the minute, and the last big job Roy had, he couldn't hold the dressing room - a dressing room full of "big players". And the England team is......full of "big players". So I'm guessing he won't get it.

Club management and international management are two completely different disciplines. Of course I may be proved wrong, and Redknapp may do alright with the English team. But I don't think the FA should bow down to the public opinion of putting Redknapp in charge so quickly. He may be the best English manager out there, but that doesn't necessarily make him the best candidate for the England job. And as far as I can see, there are no obvious candidates for the job who are English.