Poll: Capello quits
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And I was just about to suggest a Merson/Kamara combo!
This.
No matter the best players and the best manager the media (and the moron players in the first place) will drag the attention away from the football and make a circus out of everything until everyone is too busy bickering to bother playing.
We will never, ever, win anything ever again. Please feel free to quote this if it proves wrong
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Whoever it is I'd prefer:
a) fluent English speaker
b) has a good record as a national manager (i.e. no to club managers)
c) picks on form and drops most of the old farts
a) fluent English speaker
b) has a good record as a national manager (i.e. no to club managers)
c) picks on form and drops most of the old farts
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Im not a capello fan, but id like to see, Beckham, Scholes etc out for one last world cup, wouldnt that be awesome?
not really.
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Defiantly Kammy, and Merson as the assistant. We might not win anything, but they would put the fun factor in the squad.
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He may be a mercenary but it's difficult to argue with his record, he's great at getting national teams to perform as more than the sum of their parts.
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Why should there be? Not incidentally but within the EU any such restrictions might well fall foul of rules regarding free movement of workers - it almost certainly wasn't what the Treaty was envisaged for but that's not necessarily going to be a reason why it couldn't be utilised.
We can't pick foreign players, I think it should be the same for the managers as well.
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That would really mess up Hiddink's day.
I can't say it bothers me much either way, it's not as if Scotland suffers from a shortage of decent managerial candidates but I had and I have got no issues with the idea of a foreign manager being appointed. I've got some minor quibbles about Berti Vogts being absolutely terrible for the team but I don't think it was his nationality at fault.
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Couldn't agree more. When you look at the likes of Redknapp and Hodgson, who in 70 years of management have an FA Cup and a few Swedish league titles between them, you know foreign is the way forward for now.
I don't really have an issue with it tbh, It doesn't necessarily bother me that we have a foreign manager or if Capello couldn't speak much English at the start, I would still show support. But I would just be happier if the same rule applied and managers also had to be native.
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As a rule, I don't trust people that look like Zippy.
I just love how the manager has been blamed with the last 3 managers.
Surely, it's not ALL Eriksson, McLaren and Capello's fault? At what point are people going to stop and think that maybe, the players are to blame? Doesn't matter which manager we get in next, he will somehow be to blame for us failing in the next tournament.
It's the same every time.
Surely, it's not ALL Eriksson, McLaren and Capello's fault? At what point are people going to stop and think that maybe, the players are to blame? Doesn't matter which manager we get in next, he will somehow be to blame for us failing in the next tournament.
It's the same every time.
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I agree with your basic point that it's not all down to the manager but they have to share some of the responsibility for not picking the right players don't they? If we accept the premise that a lot of the problems stem from the players then why are successive managers not picking ones that don't suffer from such issues - it doesn't seem to be a lack of talent per se so is it attitudinal or something else? I recognise that to drop some of the players could be viewed as virtual career suicide if it goes wrong but then again the England managers job seems to be a bit of a poisoned chalice anyway so you might as well be bold with it.
If you're being paid ~£4m a year then it's got to be because you are expected to have a major influence on how things go with your particular organisation - either that or you're being paid it a money to accept a pretty undersirable position where you're simply a scapegoat. I would say that if you want to pay me ~£2m a year (as I'm untested in the role) to either not get England to qualify or to struggle to progress much beyond the group stages then I'm happy to accept the challenge.
