There is only one English manager with the right credentials to manage England. Only one who has the experience and only one who has an air of calm under pressure from the media. Roy Hodgson (born 9 August 1947 in Croydon, England) is a former English footballer and current head coach of West Bromwich Albion. Hodgson, who has managed sixteen different teams in eight countries, guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996; Switzerland had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1960s. From 2006 to 2007, he managed the Finland national team, guiding them to their highest ever FIFA ranking of 33rd place, and coming close to qualifying for a major tournament for the first time in the nation's history. He has been the beaten finalist in the UEFA Cup and the Europa League. Hodgson has also coached many notable club sides, including Halmstads BK, Internazionale, Blackburn Rovers, Grasshoppers, FC Copenhagen, Udinese, Viking, Fulham and Liverpool. Hodgson has served several times as a member of UEFA's technical study group at the European Championships, and he was also a member of the FIFA technical study group at the 2006 World Cup. Hodgson speaks five languages and has also worked as a television pundit in several of the countries in which he has coached. The obvious choice, the nearest we have to a modern day Alf Ramsey.
He wouldnt be a success as Roy excels at clubs were expectations arent high for his appointment, in the sense they are expecting him to steady the ship and then roy will over achieve. for big jobs he is more suited to managing abroad, he done well at inter but that was really a rebuilding project for the club as their chairmain needed a calm manager to sort the team out. WIth the England job, its too high profile that he wouldn't be allowed the type of space to slowly rebuild, especially as he will rarely see the players. England need a manager with the type of personality that will make an instant impact and get the best out of players and that is why arry is the favourite as while he isnt as tactically astute as roy, as a personality and man manager, his qualities would make more of an impact for england then roy.
There actually seems to be something of a switch towards Hodgson in the media at the moment, Spurf. Andy Gray's suggested him in a column today, for example. http://www.sundaymercury.net/midlan...to-west-brom-boss-roy-hodgson-66331-30505926/ Given that he's out of contract in the summer and appears to be stalling over extending his current deal, he might make a cheap appointment to cover the Euros, at least. Whether he'd be willing to take it on as a temporary thing or not remains to be seen, though.
Alf Ramsey no personality, and no BIG club. Between the end of his playing career and his appointment as England manager, Ramsey was Ipswich Town manager for eight years, taking them from the Third Division to the top of the First Division in that time, winning the English Championship title at the first attempt. Don't tell me times have changed, it wont wash. If we had achieved much success in the modern era then ok but with all the Harry type managers, high profile, big clubs, etc etc we have achieved very little. The only way to deal with the media (and it's a huge part of the England job) is to be very low key, and very ordinary. To paraphrase Blanchflower: Dealing with the media is not about glory it's about boring them to death.
im intrested to see who we will get to replace Redknapp to be honest.... i questioned his lack of tactical know how and finesse...last year when we were struggling to beat the poor teams..then we would go on a run against some big teams and everyone was satisfied...im afraid the last 3 matches has pointed it out to me again...he is tactically inept bordering on bizzare...so im intrested to know if Levy will pick this up and replace him with someone who will take one of the best squads we have had in decades onto the next level or will we end up with someone like Woy as Engalnd manager thus keeping Redknapp and just going sideways..then constantly being reminded that we should be glad to be where we are because we were bottom when he joined blah blah.
Redknapp's done a very good job since he joined Dona, I'm just a little concerned that he doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes.
What about Venables? Very similar to Harry and got us to the semis. Have to agree though; Uncle Woy is squeaky clean and talks the FA's language. Please God let him get the damn job and we can get back to winning football matches.
He can't learn because his focus is always on players and not tactics. I like that tbh, but the down side is when 'his favourites' are not available. He then looks for ways to accommodate those he has left without looking at team shape.
Venables was the best tactician England have had and should still be there, but again image and media did for him.
I agree, Spurf. He clearly likes Parker, Sandro and Livermore, which I completely understand, but you can't play two of them and Modric in the same midfield.
hes done a cracking job..but we have all heard the cliche..'the manager has taken the team as far as he can'...i really believe this is looking like the case with Harry with regards to where we are and where we need to be..ill always be grateful to him for contributing to our rcent success but he just doesnt look like the kinda manager who can change something during the match in a CL quater final to pull us level....them are the kind of scenarios we are aiming for with our team..but i will say if he did become England manager he would get annihilated in tournaments.
he would make a cracking number 2 then if man management is the total recipe for success..top managers can do both. id like to see him get pissed off one day and sub one of the big boys during a irst half if need be...just like Mourinhio used to do....or just go gung ho and stik on 3 strikers like he did when we played Chelsea in the cup a few seasons ago when we were winning 3-1 and it finished 3-3 then they beat us in replay there needs to be an upper edge in his management..at the moment his only upper edge is that he is blessed with a cracking squad.
one of the big boys are missing and the whole equilibrium of the team goes potty..and all the fans can see that all we need to do is start with Rose,Townsend etc..like for like in other words...but he sticks Krancjear on the wing who makes a tanker look lightening fast.
I think that Kranjcar on the right wing works when Walker's behind him, to be honest. Had we started with a 4-4-1-1 yesterday and played Bale, van der Vaart and Modric in position, then Kranjcar starting on the right would've worked, in my opinion.
true..but i was just breaking down my reasoning as to why i wouldnt lose too much sleep if he did become Engalnd manager.
You will lose sleep whoever becomes manager just as you will if he stays. This is Spurs and it's not sleep inducing. I'm glad to say!
(moyes would be good for us) Warnock for England...lol.. that would get me watching England matches again that is for sure just for comedy value!
