Svens Going……Going……Gone

@slayer wrote:

So you’d rather be a poor national team with an English manager than a successful national team with a foreign manager?

For me, it makes no difference- the idea that we MUST HAVE an English manger is short sighted. England cricket team won the Ashes with a Zimbabwean manager, you think I care Duncan Fletcher isn’t English?

Um……Maybe you should look at our team for starters. Sven was never all that when we was losing. He would sit there with no expression on his face as per usual from the great Sven. We have the players to do what is needed. God, look at our damn team! I’m not going to change my opinion about wanting an English manager, because several hundeds of people feel the same way as I do, including former managers and players and even a few people who are within the F.A.

@Bad Manners wrote:

@token_male wrote:

@robbo wrote:

@becky wrote:

I saw on the news about wanting an English manager, but they said their is no one who fits what they need, no one who is right for the job and to be honest i agree. I may be a girl but im married to a footie fanatic and most of the top premiership teams are managed by non english men. I dont care where they come from as long as England win a world cup. 8)

I’ve just explained that..Again, our NATIONAL team, is far more important than a manager who manages a premier league team!

but you can see the logic of it robbo surely??

why choose a an english bloke to coach the national team? when foreign managers OBVIOUSLY manage teams better??

mourinho? benitez? wenger? ferguson?

none are english, all are good managers,

i personally dont care what nationality the person is to be honest, its never bothered me at all, my local english team arent managed by an english man, so why should my country be?

i respect you say the national team is more important, and to the world it is, but if someone wants to do the job and is able to i say let them do it

Do u not feel that an English manager could have done at least as good a job as Eriksson if not better?

Even though that is not to me, but I PERSONALLY think an English manager would of. You see Sven just sitting there if things weren’t going right, and Mclaren, our assistant manager trying to fix things. Id of liked him to be our manager, to be honest with you. He shares passion and emotion, which Sven fails with. I could name more, but i’m sure you all know them anyway.

@pikey wrote:

All that’s happened, I reckon, is that the semi-final uncertainty has been removed. He was going to get t’sack for quarter-finals or worse and he was going to leave if we won. Only a defeat in the semis would have seen him carry on anyway.

The mood is definitely for an Englishman to replace him. I can’t see an Englishman about with the right experience, bar possibly Robson the elder. Perhaps we should follow Holland and Germany and go for an unproven former international superstar. We’ll see how it goes for them in the summer.

I do think that is what may happen. If we go for an unproven former international to be our manager, then i’m all for Stuart Pearce, or even Ian Wright. Ian Wright has a great personality, and alot of influence within the game! But if we go for experience, then I think that Mclaren should get the job, or maybe Curbishly. But I suppose we’ll have to wait and see.

@pikey wrote:

All that’s happened, I reckon, is that the semi-final uncertainty has been removed. He was going to get t’sack for quarter-finals or worse and he was going to leave if we won. Only a defeat in the semis would have seen him carry on anyway.

The mood is definitely for an Englishman to replace him. I can’t see an Englishman about with the right experience, bar possibly Robson the elder. Perhaps we should follow Holland and Germany and go for an unproven former international superstar. We’ll see how it goes for them in the summer.

There’s gotta be a chance that old man Robson will pass away before the end of the Euro Champ Qualifers. :P Surely England can get someone younger.

I read that about Hiddink as well. The clamour for an English boss might scupper his chances, though. The FA always have been a bunch of spineless nits. Butcher’s not a bad shout. Tony Adams has been quietly coming along as well.