Disappointed. Wanted Sadiq Khan personally.
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Allardyce then. Such a seemingly bad appointment itâll probably work.
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heâs got passion and the capacity for a heart attack.
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That is one great big massive fat meh
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Think I am the only one who quite likes him. Much better character than the last few. Think he will do better than some of the others have.
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Can he do any worse? I suppose he could fail to qualify.
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Yeah, Iâm strangely enfranchised by this imminent appointment, I think heâll show the precious loves who play for the âbigâ clubs that they actually need to be a good player to play for the national side.
And, as I said earlier, hopefully we wonât see Sterling in an England shirt again (unless heâs buys a replica top to go on holiday with)
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I guess he needs the job seeing as he was stupid enough to get ripped off for ÂŁ13k in that Xmas hamper scam.
âŚapologies Barry / MLG for the reference to a religious festival. What was I thinking?
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Originally posted by @Sfcsim
Think I am the only one who quite likes him. Much better character than the last few. Think he will do better than some of the others have.
No your not ⌠I like him too.
Itâll be refreshing to have an England manager who isnât full of shit !!
Could be the right guy given our current underperformance. Should get the defensive shape and organisation sorted out at least. Hasnât always played hoofball and hopefully with some of the players at his disposal heâll only use that tactic as plan b or c.
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The big club players will look down on him, until strangely our league goes bust and I canât wait until it does then weâll suffer further ineternationally, we need more players playing abroad learning the game there where its actually successful, we breed racehorses with a good engine.
Are they just paying him in pies?
I can see no other reason to appoint him.
No lessons learned. Completely backward or standing still while regressing step. Standard FA approach then
Sorry Bucks, tired old doctrine, like the last 5 steps forwards have actually worked!!
Harry Redknapp will be kicking the fuck out of the dog right now.
âHarry! Stop! Youâll kill it, and all our money is in its name! The next of kin is a facking puppy!â
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At least with Big Sam in charge we wonât get relegated.
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Probably against the tide here, but I think Big Sam is a good appointment, when considering the options available as the FA want to stick with an Englishman. The players should come primed and ready from their clubs. What is needed is an infusion of passion, pride and teamwork, which Hodgson wasnât able to deliver and Sam will be better at this. Heâs labelled as a bit Mike Bassett, but there is more to him than that.
We should play to his strengths. When we go to a tournament, all we need to do is convince him that heâs not at an international tournament at all, and he is in fact, playing in a relegation six pointer each and every game.
In the TV listings, the game would be billed as England vs France or whatever, but weâd intentionally delude Samâs mind to the point where he thinks itâs Burnley vs Sunderland in a must win game.
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It doesnât matter who the manager is. Itâs impossible to succeed in the current situation
We donât produce enough decent players. If Jordan Henderson was Spanish he wouldnât have been a footballer. If Xavi was English he wouldnât have been a footballer. Itâs 63 years since the wake up call - losing at home to the Hungarians 3-6. Weâre still at root suspicious of skill and tactics. and if you doubt that stand on the touchline of a kids game. When my boy was playing the games were on full-size pitches, with full-size goals. Not sure if thatâs still the norm but I wouldn;t be surprised if it was. The parents and most of the coaches knew nothing but thought they knew everything about football (remind you of some forums?)
We focus on the big kids. We produce leather-lunged footballers who can run all day and have loads of âheartâ and âdesireâ but little skill. When players come along with God-given skills weâre suspicious of them. MLT was just one of a very long line. Any decent players emerge in spite of the system rather than because of it
Next, the organisation of the professional game is in the hands of the FA - the most dysfunctional organisation in the history of organisations. Can you ever remember the FA doing something and you thought âgood idea, yes, Iâd have done thatâ? No, me neither.
The out-of-touch bumbling amatuerism of the past (county FAs and blazers) has been replaced by pots of money and corporate on-message Blair-speak about âthe England wayâ (people brought in from private industry who are not âexperts on footballâ Nice suits though)
And of course Iâm sure the Premier League doesnât help. Chelsea and Man City win the youth cup year after year but none of them make their first teams
As an aside - one thing to ask thatâs relevant for England is âwhy donât Scotland produce players any more?â From the start of league football in the 1880s up to the Premier League in 1992 youâd be hard pressed to find any successful team without any Scots - usually as crucial players. The last were Strachan and McAllister for Leeds - the last league winners before the PL - and Colin Hendry for Blackburn in 1995. The Scots always punched above their weight, Now theyâre awful. I think that is what awaits England
So - all this is before considering the bit that a manager can influence. Sure Roy made mistakes - Wiltshire, Sterling, Rooney, etc. But we wouldnât have won it with the players at our disposal now, whoever had been in the squad or the team
Pardoxically in this post-Brexit world the answer lies in a loss of nationalism. Recognise that weâre part of Europe - where all the coaching expertise comes from. Some humility wouldnât go amiss. Weâre shit, and have been for ages. We need to want to learn from the rest of the world. We currently donât
We need to recognise that, at the moment, nobody, not Guardiola, Mourinho, Pocchettino or a reincarnated Brian Clough could turn England into world beaters.
That said, we could aim to be equal to the sum of our parts rather than much much less. Do any of the players look forward to playing for England do we think? It really doesnât look like it. Whatâs needed in the short term is a man manager to get the players we have got enjoying their football. Sam could maybe do that, and is not such a tactical dinosaur as everyone makes him out to be - he was quite innovative when at Bolton
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Good post, although Portugal and Greece have both won the Euros with relatively poor teams.