New England Manager - Page 2

Neil · 25-04-2006, 15:20

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BREAKING NEWS - England in shock Souness announcement.

Graham Souness has been confirmed as the new manager of England.

Linky.

orangebird · 25-04-2006, 15:41

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Originally Posted by Neil

Linky.

Is that a wind-up?

**Chris** · 25-04-2006, 15:43

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Originally Posted by Neil

Linky.

I smell sh1tÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã… Â¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¬.

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Is that a wind-up?

Have a look at the full URL.

orangebird · 25-04-2006, 15:45

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Originally Posted by Chris T

I smell sh1tÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã… Â¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¬.

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Have a look at the full URL.

I wouldn't know the difference...

Just hope it's not true!

nffc · 25-04-2006, 15:46

Could be worse, they could have gone for Meg*on.

sherer · 25-04-2006, 16:20

trying to get this back on topic

i've no problem with us getting a foreign manager as long as we get the right one.. Sven never had a clue about football right from the start and after he was shown to be clueless and tried to get another job we then offered him a new contract with so much money it was impossible to get rid of him

with the quality of players we have they have only got as far as they have if they had no manager and just made up their own tactics

the problem at the moment is that Curbs, Sam, McLaren won't ever get the chance to manage at Man U, Chelsea or world class level therefore when they setup up to managing England the gulf between that and managing Bolton is too big

Nugget · 25-04-2006, 16:55

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Originally Posted by sherer

trying to get this back on topic

i've no problem with us getting a foreign manager as long as we get the right one.. Sven never had a clue about football right from the start and after he was shown to be clueless and tried to get another job we then offered him a new contract with so much money it was impossible to get rid of him

with the quality of players we have they have only got as far as they have if they had no manager and just made up their own tactics

the problem at the moment is that Curbs, Sam, McLaren won't ever get the chance to manage at Man U, Chelsea or world class level therefore when they setup up to managing England the gulf between that and managing Bolton is too big

Having said that, if you bear in mind that the current starting eleven for England basically picks itself, it doesn't really matter who the manager is at the moment - England should(!) only have issues if key players get injured.

I'd have absolutely no problem with Scolari being England manager - he's a proven winner, and even managed to get Portugal to a final!

TheBlueRaja · 25-04-2006, 18:32

Martin O'neill is overrated IMO, a good manager of Celtic does not necesserally make a good manager outwith Scotland, same goes for their equally bigotted friends, Rangers.

Achievments of OF managers are pretty unimportant, Alex Mcleish won more trophies than he did and got Rangers to the last 16 in Europe - and he's a great manager, honestly

pedantic · 25-04-2006, 18:46

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Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

Martin O'neill is overrated IMO, a good manager of Celtic does not necesserally make a good manager outwith Scotland, same goes for their equally bigotted friends, Rangers.

Achievments of OF managers are pretty unimportant, Alex Mcleish won more trophies than he did and got Rangers to the last 16 in Europe - and he's a great manager, honestly

He did take Wycombe out of the conference though, and another promotion after that. And also took Leicester to the premiership, and won the league cup. All this was done on very limited funds.

TheBlueRaja · 26-04-2006, 11:53

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He did take Wycombe out of the conference though, and another promotion after that. And also took Leicester to the premiership, and won the league cup. All this was done on very limited funds.

A fair point, but my point was that as a manager of Celtic or Rangers with big funding and little domestic competition that its not really hard to do well.

**Damien** · 27-04-2006, 00:06

They have offered the job to Scolari

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ls/4949118.stm

27-04-2006, 00:15

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Originally Posted by Damien

They have offered the job to Scolari

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ls/4949118.stm

I am surprised, I thought McClaren was a dead cert

sir_drinks_alot · 27-04-2006, 01:26

the next England Manager should be the best person able to do the job Shouldn’t matter if he's English or not just as long as thay do the job to the best of there ability that's all that matter at the end of the day.

Timeless Stew · 27-04-2006, 05:42

Never mind that Scolari ain't a pome. Berwick has a shadow of a moustache but Scolari has a proper one. Coincidence? no, I say...

Russ · 27-04-2006, 07:29

Does it really matter? Whoever gets the job he'll be hailed as the new footballing messiah who'll be "the one who leads us to World Cup glory" and after a few good results will be untouchable for a month or two then after England get beaten by some tinpot third world country the press wil turn on him. Throw in the odd scandal about a sexual indiscretion or misplaced comment about a minority and then the whole country will be against him, the FA will then label his position 'untenable' and we'll be right back to square one