Unless you're a particularly unscrupulous Italian player, predicting a result is haphazard at the
best of times, but it certainly helps if you've had experience playing at the very top level. Step
forward David 'Safe Hands' Seaman. The lovable lump, and 75-time capped England international, gave
us his best guess at what will transpire when [.
Alan Pardew has recently been linked with the England job once Fabio Capello leaves the position
after next summer's Euro 2012 Championships. Alan Pardew not interested in becoming England manager
After foreign managers like Fabio and Sven Eriksson, there is a strong feeling that the next
England manager should be English.
Was Brian Clough the best manager England never had? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
With the England manager's position currently available, and a recent track record of over-paid
and under performing foreign managers, the nation is crying out for a talisman to lead the side to
Euro 2012.
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp believes more homegrown managers should be given a chance in the
Premier League.
This season has seen the likes of Brendan Rogers and Paul Lambert flourish in their first season in
the top flight of English football, while six of the current top nine Premier League clubs are
managed by managers born in the UK.
Jaime Carragher has had a "pop" about Chelsea and our appointment of AVB ahead of up and coming
British managers. When asked about foreign managers here he said:
"Benitez, Houllier, Mourinho – they've all got things about them in terms of having
won the big trophies. Does that mean English managers don't get a chance at the Premier
League?
Chelsea's Carlo Ancelotti has indicated he may be interested in replacing Fabio Capello as
England manager in 2012.
Capello will step down from the international job after the Euro 2012 championships, and even
though Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Redknapp is favourite to replace, Ancelotti see's no reason why
foreign managers like himself shouldn't manage England.
Chelsea manager, Carlo Ancelotti reveals an interesting statement recently saying that in the
future he could follow his fellow countryman, Fabio Capello's footsteps in becoming the coach of
England national team.
That fact was unveiled when the former Ac Milan coach answered to the press question of whether
he is interested in taking the England job in the future by saying that he is very interested in
the possibility.
Chelsea these days has a reputation within football and in Europe as a big club now. Continued and
sustained qualification into the Champions League and our record in the competition has given us
that. So it's no surprise really that in recent times Roman Abramovich and the Chelsea board have
looked for big name managers with European or World experience to come and manage our club.
Birmingham City manager Chris Hughton has described Chelsea's decision to fire young manager
Andre Villas-Boas as a 'shame', warning that the rapid changes in the Stamford Bridge hot-seat are
detrimental to building a stable future.
Earlier today, former Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari who was also sacked midway through his
first season with the Blues in 2009 referred to the position of Chelsea manager as 'hell'.
What's cool is that someone actually understood him, enough to translate his mumbling into
prose. Even cooler, he's managed to make himself look even more daft than usual.
Jamie was apparently in the midst of a rant toward the FA regarding home-grown managers.
I burst into a spontaneous laugh when I read the latest comments attributed to Tony Pulis, the
man who will go down as one of the greatest Rugby coaches of all time – after all, he's taken to
sport from a Rugby field to a Football ground. Who could have done more for the game of Rugby?
Pulis is a visionary genius and all that.
And by 'top' we don't necessarily good Gerard Houllier's appointment as Aston Villa manager got us
thinking: most foreign managers only get on shot at Premier League success. They either do well, in
which case they stay at the club long-term, or else they get the sack and no other Prem team will
touch them [.
And by 'top' we don't necessarily good Gerard Houllier's appointment as Aston Villa manager got us
thinking: most foreign managers only get on shot at Premier League success. They either do well, in
which case they stay at the club long-term, or else they get the sack and no other Prem team will
touch them [.
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has made it painfully clear that he would be
interested in taking the England manager's job, should it become available at some point during the
next couple of weeks.
Speaking to TalkSPORT, Redknapp said;
"The FA have got a manager and until he's not the manager it's difficult to talk
about it.
Jose Mourinho put together a game plan against Barcelona that left the world's best team with
little answers. Mourinho, ever the chess master, had his players so well-drilled that there was no
stone unturned.
Tony Cascarino of the Times writes of how Mourinho's tactics could provide a lesson to be
learned by managers of the Premier League.
In the footballing world of today the talk is much about the foreign managers in British football
and their success in managing in the Premier League. French and Spanish managers are hailed for
their skills and for bringing in the continental way to play the game to the British Isles. But
there are managers going the [.
This summer, Liverpool have again made crucial signings aimed at addressing key failures from last
season – but there's no massive change there.
Every close season since Roy Evan's reign, Liverpool have signed "the last piece of the jigsaw
puzzle", be it Harry Kewell, Fernando Morientes, Fernando Torres, or most recently Joe Cole.
When the trademarked Special One was at Chelsea, I was an advocate of him. No doubt he brought
something interesting to the table that other foreign managers simply don't. Wenger, Benitez and
the rest are generally as dull as dishwater. And as much as we already had cause to dislike him for
his hop, skip and a jump down the Old Trafford touchline after being robbed by his lucky Porto
side, there was always that respect factor for a man that was achieving trophy hauls in what
appeared to be a new manner.
When the trademarked Special One was at Chelsea, I was an advocate of him. No doubt he brought
something interesting to the table that other foreign managers simply don't. Wenger, Benitez and
the rest are generally as dull as dishwater. And as much as we already had cause to dislike him for
his hop, skip and a jump down the Old Trafford touchline after being robbed by his lucky Porto
side, there was always that respect factor for a man that was achieving trophy hauls in what
appeared to be a new manner.
Roy Hodgson believes his long-term friendship with Sir Alex Ferguson has not been affected since he
took charge at Liverpool.
Hodgson and Ferguson meet for the first time as managers of arch-rivals at Old Trafford on Sunday,
but the Liverpool boss believes the occasion will be different from previous hostilities.
It really is one of the most annoyingly repetitive mantras you will hear churned out by TV
pundits "managers need time". I actually think this one gets wheeled out by all and sundry whenever
any manager is sacked regardless of the circumstances. Mind you, you should especially look for
it if the manager in question is English and/or has at some point returned the calls of Chris
Kamara.
The much-ballyhooed "summer of soccer" has come and gone, and, without pausing for breath, we
boldly plunge on into: the MLS playoff race and battle for the cup, Euro-Yanks returning to action,
and four more years with Bob.
Meet the New Boss
After all the hemming and hawing and endless debate about foreign managers magically transforming
the team was done, Sunil Gulati and the USSF handed the reins of the US Men's National Team back to
Bob Bradley.
I think it says a lot about how badly England have been playing, that I really wasn't that
disappointed when we were knocked out of the World Cup yesterday.
That's not just because I hate most of the team as individuals either. To be really disappointed
by something there has to be some level of expectation and I went into this World Cup thinking that
it would be a successful campaign if we reached the quarter-finals.
This is and by no means will ever be an England blog. As much as I love watching my country go
from one disaster to another or celebrate losing at a latter stage of a tournament, my main
priority is Tottenham Hotspur.
Like most football fans the club comes before the country.
If I was to ask you to name the fattest footballer currently plying their trade in the Premiership
then what would your answer be? A difficult question to answer isn't it. Perhaps Yakubu? And even
then he is hardly a Rik Waller lookalike. Fat Frank? Lets be honest here, this is really just a
moniker and probably arose because over 10 yards he is slower than most people's grannies, rather
then anything to do with his actual physique.
Twohundredpercent remains on its Christmas holidays, so this morning we are looking back at
a genuine trailblazer, a man, many of whose character traits can be seen in many, many modern
managers. Who else could we be talking about but the rotund, shaven-headed Draculike, Viktor
Boskovic of Danefield United?
Barney Ronay is a difficult one to pin down. A senior sports writer for the Guardian, he is often
the one to pick up ackward stories - a recent piece went by the title 'Should Sepp Blatter Lock
Himself in a Cupboard - and in all fairness he rarely writes anything that isn't interesting.
