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Next England manager?

You're kidding right?
A rubbish England team made Wales look poor in the group game. I think you're over estimating how good Wales are, they've done superbly to get to the semis but flatter to deceive imo.

They really flattered to decide against Belguim last night 🙄😂😂
Was a great performance IMO, great character shown after going a goal down.

No standout managers for the job, heard Jurgen Klinsmann is in with a shout.
 
First choice would be Crazyface but yet again the FA won't appoint the right man for the job:thup:

Second choice would be Hoddle, played at the highest level, had a decent record at club management , good record when managing England before, sacked for non football reasons.

It still annoys me intensely Hodgson wasn't sacked after Brazil, if we had put someone else in charge it could have been so different In France Such a waste of time since the last W/C.

Thank you Rlburnside. If we could get a a bit of a following on here......and don't forget my pledge to include you all in my decision making. :D
 
Heard on the radio this morning that Hodgson went on a boat trip rather than go and watch the Iceland game.
Nice one Roy, did a proper thorough job there.
But they kicked off the same time as the other game in the group, and we could've played a team from either match, so he could wasted his time at either, sometimes the press want to cause trouble, he's gone, let's move forward.
 
Its not the manager that's the problem imo, the England players have life too easy, every other team in the Euros has a good proportion of their team playing outside their home country, with the exception of perhaps Italy. Heading overseas to play, assimilating into foreign culture and language breeds those players tougher and more versatile, exposes them to different types/styles/pace of football. Englands players all play at home in teams full of good foreign players at the manic pace of the premiership and so don't have the experience of playing in hot countries where the pace is slower and where you have to make the ball do the work consequently their passing and strategy's are lost.

Looking at stats and perceived successes of past England managers Bobby Robson's who's held in high regard had a win % at 9th place in the list and is worse than Steve McLarens (pilloried) in 8th. Fabio Capello has far and away the best win % yet he's not remembered as a success. Eriksson 5th, Hodgson 6th. Venables is way down in 11th. None of them are finding it easy to get anywhere in tournaments, Robson in 1990 and Venables in 1996 had Gazza running the show, now sure how much of those 2 relative successful tournaments were actually managerial tbh.

England players need to gain experience outside of England for the national team to improve imo but they wont as life is too easy in the EPL.
 
Its not the manager that's the problem imo, the England players have life too easy, every other team in the Euros has a good proportion of their team playing outside their home country, with the exception of perhaps Italy. Heading overseas to play, assimilating into foreign culture and language breeds those players tougher and more versatile, exposes them to different types/styles/pace of football. Englands players all play at home in teams full of good foreign players at the manic pace of the premiership and so don't have the experience of playing in hot countries where the pace is slower and where you have to make the ball do the work consequently their passing and strategy's are lost.

Looking at stats and perceived successes of past England managers Bobby Robson's who's held in high regard had a win % at 9th place in the list and is worse than Steve McLarens (pilloried) in 8th. Fabio Capello has far and away the best win % yet he's not remembered as a success. Eriksson 5th, Hodgson 6th. Venables is way down in 11th. None of them are finding it easy to get anywhere in tournaments, Robson in 1990 and Venables in 1996 had Gazza running the show, now sure how much of those 2 relative successful tournaments were actually managerial tbh.

England players need to gain experience outside of England for the national team to improve imo but they wont as life is too easy in the EPL.

Didi Hamann was interviewed by Henry Winter in the times last week and nailed it.

Cant find a link, though, although parts of it are elsewhere. It generally says that our players get too much too soon, money wise, as well as other things.
 
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