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Who do you want to succeed Capello as England manager?  

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  1. 1. Who do you want to succeed Capello as England manager?

    • Harry Redknapp
      68
    • Roy Hodgson
      29
    • Alan Pardew
      2
    • Mick McCarthy
      2
    • Steve Bruce
      2
    • Neil Warnock
      1
    • Sam Allardyce
      3
    • Stuart Pearce
      3
    • Alan Curbishley
      1
    • Chris Hughton
      3
    • Ian Holloway
      6
    • Nigel Adkins
      3
    • Tony Mowbray
      0
    • Other English manager
      5
    • A foreign manager
      26

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VILLAFC2000 Newbie

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The PL was introduced in 92 - coincidence then that we have had little success since the intro of it..?

Well England did not qualify for the world cup in 1974 or 1978 long before any Sky Premiership.

Also England did not qualify the Euros in 1972 , 1976 , 1984

Like I said before we won it in 66 and got to the Semi Finals in 1990. Can you see us doing that any time soon in the next 30 - 40 years.

Those Squad of players in 72, 76 and 84 were not overwhelmingly immense.

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Where do I start? I guess the beginning is always a good place. As we all know the last time England reached a Tournament final was the infamous 1966 world cup final. Since then England have competed in 15 international tournaments with little success. Just why is it that we fail on the big scene and could Euro 2012 be the one…?

Perhaps Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrence could unlock a deep and meaningful question. Just why do the England team fail when it comes to a large Tournament? Alan Hansen, Lee Dixon and Mark Lawrenson have won just about every trophy on the domestic front that is worth winning and have over 40 years of playing experience between them. Add to that 20 years of footballing punditry on the BBC, charisma, personality and wit that Ricky Gervais would be proud off – wait a minute scrap that last point…!

Time after time through my football generation England have played and failed in Tournaments, the best view point of footballing philosophical punditry that Alan and Mark can offer is “England just aren’t good enough”. Well, well, well no SHIT, thanks guys for an outstanding contribution to English football. What a wonderful use of the planet’s fast-depleting oxygen resources. Now that’s been dealt with can we move on to more important footballing matters such as did United’s grey kit really cause them defeat against the saints all those moons ago and was Bruce Grobbelaar really jealous of Lawrenson’s moustache?

The Premier League was introduced in 1992 with many arguing that not only would this create one of the most exciting leagues in the world but it would immensely benefit our national team. Just how wrong they were on the later. Evidence clearly states this. England in 92 & 94 under Graham Taylor failed to qualify and GOSH “Did I Not like that”. There is always an exception to the rule and at Euro 96 they reached the semi final although we did not have to qualify. We had one massive factor in our favour – Not penalties, but home advantage.

France 98 saw another famous quote from one of our English managers Glenn Hoddle stating that Michael Owen was not a natural goal scorer (Owen did not start the group games). Needless to say we did not win our group and we were knocked out in the last 16. Fast forward 12 years and not much has changed, England failed to qualify under another English manager Mclaren for Euro 2008 June 27th 2010 in South Africa, England V Germany

Before the match there was clearly going to be one winner according to Alan Hansen “England have got the better players and if they play they will win, the Germans are an average team and are eminently beatable”. 90 minutes later England could not escape the Brutal reality; Germany had torn apart England without even breaking sweat. “Average and eminently beatable”. Alan do the BBC actually pay you….?

If you compare our League to the Spanish league it’s not overwhelmingly difficult to see why we fail so easily. Premier League there, 270 players, 33% English (one player in every 4 of our big clubs are English._ La Liga 279 players = 71% Spanish

There just isn’t the Talent to choose from in the Premier league. This was no more evident than when England took Emile Heskey to the South African World cup and played him up front, this is coming from a beloved Aston villa fan and take it from me you will not even finish in the PL top 4 with Emile playing up front let alone winning a World cup with him up front. The top Goalkeepers from the top Spanish leagues Real Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia they are all Spanish. Take the top Goal keepers from Manchester United, City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arseanal and only one of those is English.

The story is similar when you look at the number 9 strikers.

For United their Number 9 striker is Berbatov, City – Tevez., Arsenal -

Park chu Yeung, Liverpool Andy Carol, and Chelsea – Torres.

So out of our top 5 clubs we only have one English number 9 and I am sure any

Liverpool fan will be able to tell you

although Carroll has a distinct physical presence he lacks the technical

grace that Messi, Villa and Suarez and have demonstrated time and time again. Carroll

hardly has an attitude and starting record for Liverpool that the previous

players would be proud off. There would be many that would be quick to point

out that Wayne Rooney is a World class striker and number 9. I would argue that

Rooney is more of a number 10, he plays far deeper that a number 9 for England.

- The actual number that he plays in at old Trafford is 10…!

Let’s look at the numbers.

Spain Uefa qualified coaches = 24 000

Germany Uefa qualified coaches = 28 000

Holland Uefa qualified coaches = 16 000

UK Uefa qualified coaches = 3 000

From a grass roots level it obvious again to see where we fall short. There are over 24 000 qualified UEFA coaches in Germany and Spain there are just over 3 000 in England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. As a youngster playing football I was bought up playing 11 –a side on a full size water logged pitch where the emphasis was based on winning the game. Hardly the foundations to improve your technical skills.

The 24 000 + Uefa qualified coaches in Spain are teaching their youth to concentrate less on winning and more on technical ability. It was reported that Fabio Capello was amazed at one of the first England training sessions that he had to physically show David James how to throw a football out of his hands to another defender. On the previous 8 attempts James had kicked the ball out of his hands 50-60 metres down the full size pitch straight to the opponents every single time, giving away possession. Everybody knows you can do little in Football without the ball – just ask the Spanish, Dutch and Brazilians.

The point is that these are not stats that the Premier League and the FA should be proud of. The PL has show a complete reluctance to help our national team by reducing season fixtures. Indeed, it is seen as prohibiting revenue streams and a winter break can simply not be fitted into such a chaotic structure – That old chestnut…! The Germans (and most of the big nations) have adopted a winter break and look at how their national teams plays. I am sure they suffer less Metatarsal injuries then England do when it comes to World Cups and the Euros.

The Premier League fixtures calendar is brutal and relentless. The games are played with an abundance of pace. Accordingly, the physical strain much more so than in Seria A, Bundlasliga, La Liga and other leagues across the world. Injuries and tiredness are inevitable especially at the end of a long season. We set ourselves up for a fall, do we really expect our players to come through 38 competitive league games played at a ferociously high intensity, with a run of probable champion’s league and FA cup games without injury or any fatigue. A few weeks later we then expect our top players to peak their performance for their national team at the Euros or World cup. Not a single English or foreign premier league player looked at their best at last year’s world cup – Drogba, Torres, Rooney, Ferdinand. Gerrard the list goes on….!

The pressure and expectancy that we put upon our self as a nation does not help matters. Time and time again. All I seem to hear is Harry Redknapp, Terry Venables and Ant & Dec saying that this is the year we are going to win it…! Along with the bookmakers we are always favourites or there about. We are our own worst enemies when it comes to putting pressure on selves and I am sure it does not help us. At every tournament we are genuinely expected to win it, which evidently means if we do not win it we are failures. There is so much room for failure and yet little room for success. We need to change this mentality.

The Manager

Over and over I hear that the next England manager should be English and this is one of the main reasons for our underachievement.A number of highly regarded pundits have tipped the next manager to be English: Alan Curbishley, Steve Bruce, Harry Redknapp, Paul Jewell or Stuart Pearce. Between them they have only won one FA cup not even a PL title..! Are we really forgetting Graham Taylor, Kevin Keegan, Howard Wilkinson and Steve McLaren so soon? Are we really saying we would stand a better chance of winning a world cup, or Euros with Alan Curbishley or Stuart Pearce just because he can speak English than we would do with Jose Mourinho. I simply do not believe that this is the case. Until we admit the problem is far deeper than the manager then we will fail to knock down the barriers that are in front of us.

All in all English football is living in the ruins of a castle build on sand, until we address the basic fundamentals of grass roots football, the Premier League, media and expectancy levels we can stand little chance of success.

The Future

Despite all of this cynicism from a long suffering England fan, I believe that there is a chance that we can achieve a Semi Final spot at this year’s Euros. Fabio Capello made some surprising decisions at last year’s world cup. Most notably his team selection decreed that Shaun Wright Phillips now of QPR would be more fitting than Ashley young down the flanks and that Rob Green or David James (now struggling to hold on to his place at the mighty Bristol City) would both be better first team choice than Joe Hart.

Of course hindsight is a wonderful and it’s very easy to say what decisions should have been made after the world cup. I am hoping Capello will have learnt from these past mistakes. England’s midfield and defence against Germany looked embarrassingly immobile. I Believe that Wiltshire, Millner and Gerrard if fully fit can offer us more speed, technical ability creative chances and goals. With width being provide by Young and Johnson, just maybe after all the previous year’s hurt through failing to qualify through, penalties, metatarsals, red cards, freak goals, disallowed goals and tabloid scandals the team can pull together and rally performances that will make the English fan proud of. Keep the faith.

Your own work? :detect:

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bose Mentor

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I can see why people mention Redknapp but Alex McLeish is the better option, I think we all can agree on that. In fact if there is on thing that all of VT can agree on it is that McLeish should be the next England manager. Send Randy and his red haired friend (I honestly can't remember his name) over to FA headquarters and convince them that he's the man for the job.

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MrDuck Newbie

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yes - I wrote it a while back hence the last paragraph.

Odd. It seems to have been lifted from Here

Heh. I saw that too, and generously assumed VILLAFC2000 was the writer of the blog. :winkold:

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i don't see why anyone would want to look further than harry redknapp....

he's a fantastic manager

and yes he's English...which is an essential requirement for me...

i want to see an englishman on that touchline ranting and screaming not some dark skinned adonis in a long overcoat mumbling under his breath...

if Redknapp wont leave spurs now give temporary charge to a Pearce, Keegan, Venables etc for the Euros and get him at the end of the season...

but as much as Redknapp might love Spurs, surely the lure of leading England into the Euro's straight away in a few months must be too good to turn down....

if we get a foreign manager he will require a settling in period, get to know the players and their abilities and we will bomb at the Euro's....

Harry knows them all, weaknesses, strengths, cliques, friendships and more importantly attitudes and therefore is in the best position to get us a Euro win...

go get him!

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Redknapp for me. The deftness of touch he showed in sidestepping those tax evasion charges will make him the ideal man for a job in which, for some reason, previously competent and confident coaches are usually reduced to a state of bumbling haplessness.

Surely that won't happen to our 'Arry?! :wink:

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The FA still have to negotiate with Levy to release Redknapp.

With the negotiating track record of those two sides Spurs will probably end up coming out of it with a ground swap with the FA.

:D :D :D

be a disgrace if he walked out for England after how they stood by him in court though wouldnt be surprised

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The PL was introduced in 92 - coincidence then that we have had little success since the intro of it..?

Well England did not qualify for the world cup in 1974 or 1978 long before any Sky Premiership.

Also England did not qualify the Euros in 1972 , 1976 , 1984

Like I said before we won it in 66 and got to the Semi Finals in 1990. Can you see us doing that any time soon in the next 30 - 40 years.

Those Squad of players in 72, 76 and 84 were not overwhelmingly immense.

30-40 years is too long a time to be making predictions about football, really.

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