Wallace Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 62% on SkyNews say Redknapp shouldn't get the job. It was similar yesterday on the radio which was immediately dismissed as unhappy Spurs fans skewing the vote rather than lose their manager. Since the media all love 'Arry, they seem to be under the impression that al the fans do as well but I have never met anyone who likes him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 It'll be tax dodger...he has the media wrapped round his finger. The FA will love that English - Check Media Whore - Check Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.R. Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 FA draw up a shortlist. I'm not sure a napkin with 'Call Harry' on it qualifies as a list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 madness to look for anyone but hiddink for this upcoming tournament, still the fa don't seem to get tired of bad choices and repeat failure so yeah pearce & redknapp why not? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Hiddink's reputation has gone down rapidly after his last two failures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Nobody from outside England (and ideally the home counties) will be allowed anywhere near the England team for a very long time IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 madness to look for anyone but hiddink for this upcoming tournament, still the fa don't seem to get tired of bad choices and repeat failure so yeah pearce & redknapp why not? It feels like they're going down the Shepherd route. One appointment doesn't work so they attempt to go for the complete opposite to try and rectify the 'problems'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Nobody from outside England (and ideally the home counties) will be allowed anywhere near the England team for a very long time IMO. This man will disagree at some point. http://www.ads-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Inter-Jose-Mourinho-rafa-benitez-e1284326326985.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 2? there's literally no-one more qualified to take the job for a major tournament at the stage in the proceedings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 madness to look for anyone but hiddink for this upcoming tournament, still the fa don't seem to get tired of bad choices and repeat failure so yeah pearce & redknapp why not? It feels like they're going down the Shepherd route. One appointment doesn't work so they attempt to go for the complete opposite to try and rectify the 'problems'. i don't mind if they go british long term, fine get on with it, but redknapp and/or pearce would not be the right move at this time - timing is the key for me pointless anyway, as has been said they're going all shepherd for sure imo, it'll be a brit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Was thinking... there should be something else in CM for England after Wilshere before stepping down to Milner. And I just can't come up with anybody. Despite his age i'd say Lampard tbh, it still isn't ideal mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 2? there's literally no-one more qualified to take the job for a major tournament at the stage proceedings He ballsed up both WC10 and Euro12. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiemag Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Danny Guthrie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 2? there's literally no-one more qualified to take the job for a major tournament at the stage proceedings He ballsed up both WC10 and Euro12. right, forgot the WO10 one...think he went a step too far with his taking average/shit teams to success thing, after he got russia to the semis in 08 he should have tried to move to a more stable job with better players and actually try to win a tournament aside from mourinho there's noone i'd want to see more in the job (assuming the end game is to succeed and not fail bravely again and again) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 I don't think Mourinho wants to manage a national side before Portugal, which he's nailed on to do at some point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Swift Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Nobody from outside England (and ideally the home counties) will be allowed anywhere near the England team for a very long time IMO. When you bomb out of the WC in '14 and reports come out of players disrespecting Redknapp and undermining his authority then the FA will back up a truckload of cash onto the biggest, unemployed foreign manager out there. You did it with Sven, you did it with Capello. You'll do it again. It's a shame that the FA is reactive in these hirings and that they don't possess enough foresight to actually hire the best man for the job, regardless of public opinion. I'll be honest: you look at a team like Liverpool and they've always hired who they thought was best for them, regardless of what the media think. They don't react to the failures by swinging to the opposite side of the pendulum, and they've been moderately successful in spite of the financial constraints that they have. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 An England manager's essential quality: be different from the last one History shows that the new man at the reins of the national game should have as little in common as possible with his predecessor Continuity, as we know, is the key to success but when it comes to England managers the rule of thumb seems to be to that the new man should have as little in common as possible with his predecessor. When Graham Taylor's reign limped to its close against San Marino the conventional wisdom was clear: here was a man hopelessly out of his depth at international level; what was needed was a master tactician with European experience. Terry Venables fitted the bill perfectly, but when he resigned to spend more time in court with his business affairs the FA realised that they needed to make a clean break and appoint a fresh face with a squeaky-clean image. Glenn Hoddle qualified England for France 98 in style but the team's exit on penalties revealed that the supremely gifted Diamond Lights singer was in fact a deluded crackpot imposing wacky mumbo-jumbo on simple English footballers, and within months he was out. Clearly what was called for was someone who could instil honest English passion into the team. Step forward Mr Motivator, Kevin Keegan. Hang on a minute, this joker knows nothing about the high-intensity chess match of international football. He taught the whole country the meaning of tactical acumen merely by not having any. English spunk was no longer enough. Bring us a sophisticated, cool-headed foreigner, preferably with a Mekon-sized cranium who can steer us to the top of the international pile. Sven-Goran Eriksson, though, not only revealed that he was rubbish at penalties but that he had a Scandinavian enthusiasm for bedroom aerobics. Give us an Englishman, ideally a straightforward northerner, with a face that should inoculate him from trouser-area antics. Steve McClaren turned out to be irredeemably English in his win record – the only continental quirk being his unmanly cowering beneath an umbrella – and having never managed above the North-East Counties Combination League or some such he appeared starstruck among the likes of "Steve G" and "Lamps". This time only a foreigner would do, and not just any foreigner but the best and most foreign foreigner available. A trophy-laden martinet used to putting millionaire players in their place. What? A bull-headed sergeant major who drives his squad out of their minds by locking them up in the middle of nowhere and won't even let them have a beer? Madness! He just doesn't understand our culture, the foreigner, including our minutes-old tradition of anti-racism. What we needed is a passionate Englishman … Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 The madness of the FA in appointing Eriksson and Capello was never their nationality per se but that they had absolutely no experience of the leagues and environments that their players had grown up within. I've always thought that having an England manager (never mind two of them) with absolutely no experience in the English game was total insanity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Anyone else fucking bored of this shit already? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiemag Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Its appointing a manager who has the tactics and system that will enable success, not necessarily the best players. There are enough quality players in England to challenge top 4 at every tournament. To be fair, I think Guus Hiddink would be the ideal interim - manager for England. He has worked wonders at short notice before (Australia, Chelsea), is tactically very good (most of the time) and can handle the egos very well. Let him take over for the Euros and then assess what is needed to progress. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nguyen Van Falk Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Been bored of it since Euro 96! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Anyone else f***ing bored of this s*** already? It's mind numbing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Anyone else f***ing bored of this s*** already? aye. Have been since about 10 last night. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Never understood why if someone is bored of a subject they keep checking in on a thread and even posting, seems like an enormous waste of time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Why do you think Keegan struggled so much? I think its a myth that he was quite the disaster or that he was simply not good enough for England. His record of played 18, won 7, drew 7, lost 4, would read quite well if England were a mid-table league side which at the time is what kind of national side we were. I think people forget just how old and tired a side he had inherited. Seaman, Adams, Shearer, Ince, they were all getting old and KK had to try and phase such players out and bring in the new which he did to be fair, picking Owen, Beckham, Scholes, Heskey, Dyer et al and trying to build a team around those kind of young talent. Yes he was tactically niave, but I don't believe he failed because of that, I believe he failed because England at that time as a national side were going through a transitional phase and had some poor choices to select from, in short we were quite poor and that reflected in the results. Probably the manner of some of those results goes against KK but looking back, that was a shite England in the main. What he did do was give his successor the raw materials in the emmerging youth that KK had tried to blood in and develop a team around. His record is much better but Sven was by far the bigger failure for me and so too is Cappello because they had the so-called golden generation and still did fuck all. Qualifying for any tournament in comfort should be the least a nation likes our should expect from our players given they play in one of the best if not best leagues for some of the best sides. I hope whoever gets it next sends the players out to express themeselves and to play with pace, passion and free will because thats what we need. We won't play football like Spain or Brazil but we can do better than we were serving under Cappello and shouldn't be afraid or embarrassed to play our own game to our own strengths. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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