Since 1996 and Terry we have done nothing with all these "foreign" mercenaries.

Under Bobby Robson and Terry Venables we did well.

We need a good English manager in charge ( not someone like Keegan or McClaren ) and there are several good managers out there.

Beckham - next England manager!

Have a lie down in a dark room BR and have a long chat with youself......

Agreed, give Beckham the England managers job when he has no experience of any sort of management, give me a break. However he has one thing in common with Capello, he can't communicate very well in England.

Also I don't think they should sack Capello. He can't be blamed for the performance of individuals on the pitch. Capello has only lost two competetive matches in 2 years, how many international sides can say that.

Here we go again. 4 years ago after Sven everybody was making the same call and look what happened - Steve McClaren!

Remember the bad old days of Sven? When quater-finals at major tournaments were guarenteed, and we thrashed Germany 5-1 in Berlin?

How many good English managers are there? Harry Redknap, but he's obviously out of the question. Roy Hodgson...and nobody else. The problem is English footballers tend not to be very bright and will never make great managers.

Football in england is almost exclusively working class, at least at the level of participation. Most top players are signed at 15 by premiership clubs and given £20,000 a week salaries. Why should they even ever pick up a book? But this isn't the case in europe at all. Gianluca vialli who was the son of an Italian aristocrat. Can you imagine something like that happening here? If somebody like Arsene Wenger had been born in the UK, he probably would never have even touched a football. (and note the hideous chants that Wenger has to constantly endure because he has a 3 figure IQ).

England needs a good manager and we should have given the gig to Brian Clough.

I am convinced that BECKHAM - who has run massive coaching schools with success - and has first hand experience of the World's greatest coaches - could do a better job than nearly any other Englishman. It helps he speaks the same language.

Look at Maradona - he was a crackhead - with a poor club record - but WORLD CUPS are about "INSPIRATION" and "PERSPIRATION" and in CUP GAMES the coaching manual goes out of the Window - like when clubs like HEREFORD UNITED beat Newcastle or West Ham like they did.......

Football is not a science - it is a sport where the two teams are basically equal if they are professional and trained properly. Everything else happens IN THE HEAD - and that is why if you have an inspirational legendary Manager - you will GIVE EVERYTHING on the pitch.

The players have never felt that way for SVEN or STEVE or FABIO.

That is not a reflection on excellent club managers - but a reflection of what happens IN THE HEAD at World Cups.

The GERMANS know this secret - and so do BRAZIL and now ARGENTINA have cottoned on.

It is time we woke up and stopped trying to play a "League" type of football in a knock out competition.

Brian Clough would be 75 if he was alive today. The reason he wasn't appointed in the 1970's was concerns about his physiological make up and nothing to do with his football ability. To be an international manager one of the qualities has to be diplomacy and to be able to take advice and make decisions based on input from other individuals. Clough's ego would have been too much of a liability. Clough did not respect or follow rules he acted like a dictator. He was good so got away with his behaviour a lot of the times but he wasn't perfect and alienated so many people that when he made a mistake it often was a big one.

I think Harry Redknapp will also be overlooked for non footballing reasons and again probably the right decision. If the newspapers have any info on some of Harry's financial dealings you just know they will run the story the first time there is a bad result.

I agree with Backit, Roy Hodgson is the only choice but unless the FA do something in the next couple of days he will be Liverpool's manager and you can be sure they will have a "poison pill" clause in his contract making it expensive if the FA want him.

robbiex wrote:
Agreed, give Beckham the England managers job when he has no experience of any sort of management, give me a break. However he has one thing in common with Capello, he can't communicate very well in England.

Agree entirely.

That will be at least another 50 years without winning anything.

Just what was he doing standing alongside Capello all the time ?
Does he think he has some divine right ?