Mark Hughes and that Tobin bloke?
Probably bad taste too. Nevermind.
So- who still thinks Steve Mclaren should be sacked if InGERland win, even draw, on Saturday? What is the sound of sports writers backpeddling?
For my part I can only echo mark Lawrenson in saying that England managers should only be given 2 year tournament to tournament rolling contracts from now on.
Mclaren also gave me a horrible mental image in his post Israel match interview "I'd just slipped off to the toilet when I heard my boys cheering".
My immediate quesiton to that would have benn "What was it steve, number 1 or number 2? Or were you trying to hold back stress related vomit with your head in the bowl?"
The image of Steve Mclaren pissing is bad. The image of him shitting unbearable.
Enough, for now, of this schoolboy humour. I'm off to make paper aeroplanes and twang my ruler as if it were a catapult.
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The FA should abandon the notion of succession. It works for monarchies perhaps, but it does not work in international football.
For starters, succession is not needed to guarantee continuity (and this time round we had the wisdom of procuring a 'continuity of failure' to contemplate) as each new coach is going to be drawing from the same crop of players. No coach is going to take the job on the basis of not using their own methods, anyway (not a good coach).
Separate the long-term aims from the job description and embrace continuity (of policy and, if appropriate, staff) at the levels below full international and leave the England manager's job as being essentially identifying and getting the best XI to perform.
In other words, if the England manager takes a wrong turn, he only takes his players with him, not the whole game. Of course, this is partly undermined by the big $$$ that England get from appearing in major tourneys.
Talking of major tourneys, so long as England have a superiority complex that they are 'a big team' etc, there is going to be too much media scrutiny and too much pressure. It's sad, but one of the best recent England managers, who provided the kind of football that the pundits supposedly want, was Glenn Hoddle, and he was effectively hounded out of his job over remarks that, while misguided, had no impact on his capacity to do his job.
With re: to Austria, the media has been surprisingly acquiescent over the fact that a meaningless money-spinner friendly has now deprived England of Michael Owen for the vital qualifier on Wednesday.
That will have turned out to be an incredibly short-sighted way to feed the meter if England go out.
Should McClaren go? Yes, a million times yes. He was the wrong man for the job and that fact has never changed. Therefore, the sooner he goes, the better.
I would also like to see the end of Gerrard in an England shirt, but I won't hold my breath.
the media have been forgiing on teh owen fornt. I rather feel that sam allardyce wants his head on a pole though.
a pole as in pointy stick, not EU accession country resident, obv.
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