Who do you want for the England job?

suspiciousminds

Yeh, i cant understand why Hoddle's being thought of as a contender.
Shearer would be good - maybe with ian wright assisting?
Why we're considering southgate i dont know.
I always fancied stuart Pearce for the job.
I do believe it should be an english coach though for the national team.

holnrew

English coaches are shite. When was the last time one won anything?

mudslide73

earwighoney said:

Marcelo Bielsa.  

That would be immense. I don't think the media could handle the lenght of the press conferences or the players his formations though. We'd be incredibly hard to beat with him in charge if he could get the players to go with it. 

lloyd

p90fool said:

lloyd said:

I think the problem with Shearer would be the players questioning his tactics or selections

It's not up to them to question anything. If they do, drop them. There are a thousand other mediocre, off-form players to choose from. Is there really anyone who could put their hand up to say England would've been poorer without them?

Although the job is obviously a poisoned chalice things are so low that at least now the incumbent would have pretty well a free hand to start kicking arses.

In a perfect world yeah of course, but real life doesn't go like that.

If your manager drops your best player(s) then the fans and media go apeshit and the bosses have to act on it.

Nikko

holnrew said:

English coaches are shite. When was the last time one won anything?

Didn't Southgate just win the Under 21 European ...thingy?

scrumhalf

I said it in another thread - the chief sports writers of the Sun and Mirror, jointly.

It has a nice karmic resonance to it.

Bidley

holnrew said:

English coaches are shite. When was the last time one won anything?

McClaren won the dutch title a couple of times. 'Arry won the FA Cup with Portsmouth. That's about all I can think of... Unless you want to go into pedant territory and start mentioning Championship, Leagues 1 & 2 and Johnston Paint trophies

NickBotfield

Alex Ferguson.  If the players won't make an effort out of a sense of pride, or professionalism, or cameraderie, then perhaps they'll do it out of fear.

StanleyAccrington

Mike Basset.

Flanging_Fred

Bidley said:

holnrew said:

English coaches are shite. When was the last time one won anything?

McClaren won the dutch title a couple of times. 'Arry bought  the FA Cup using other people's money with Portsmouth. That's about all I can think of... Unless you want to go into pedant territory and start mentioning Championship, Leagues 1 & 2 and Johnston Paint trophies

corrected for you.

I'd have Nigel Farrage and Jeremy Corbyn as a combined dream team.  But knowing the F.A. they'd put Corbyn in charge of the Right wing and Farrage in charge of the Left Wing.

MrSwanson

Doesn't matter who they will still be shit!

Jalapeno

Bo Jo is free right now !


Hoddle had his chance and blew it, don't understand why he's being considered again.

Snap

If we want English, Allardyce or Bruce. Either would be OK, certainly capable. Both the right sort of age too.

monkey42

Klinsmann I also don't understand this young guy with a mentor suggestion. Didn't we have that with McLaren and Venables. I watched the Euro 96 documentary recently and part of the problem is that team had in its spine: seaman-Adams-gascoigne-shearer vs hart-Cahill-Rooney-Kane.

p90fool

lloyd said:

p90fool said:

lloyd said:

I think the problem with Shearer would be the players questioning his tactics or selections

It's not up to them to question anything. If they do, drop them. There are a thousand other mediocre, off-form players to choose from. Is there really anyone who could put their hand up to say England would've been poorer without them?

Although the job is obviously a poisoned chalice things are so low that at least now the incumbent would have pretty well a free hand to start kicking arses.

In a perfect world yeah of course, but real life doesn't go like that.

I realise that, the media control over politics AND sport have uncanny similarities in this country.

Teetonetal

Eric Cantona!

http://www.thesportbible.com/football/news-watch-eric-cantona-takes-off-his-shirt-to-announce-eng-job-candidacy-20160701

darcym

alex ferguson could be an interesting idea, not a "full time" managers job, hard to complain about his record, British and experienced manager of English football.

duotone

I'd like someone English & younger than 55. Old boys like Arsene Wenger we don't need (I'm an Arsenal fan btw)

RobDavies

Mark Warburton.

RocknRollDave

Ron Saunders