Sam Allardyce

[Carver]

Couldn't do worse than Tony Pulis. Usually gets a team of no hopers grafting. Won't be put off picking ordinary players to fit into a job. I'd rather see a team of grafters putting the effort in plus his tactics are stuck in the 1950s, which suits the FA.

Would he buy out the souvenir shop on this one though being Welsh?

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Who do you think it should be?

Im just saying history tells us Hiddink while good at club level a few years ago but not recently has always been terrible at international level
Im not sure there is an answer maybe someone more forward thinking with a personality, as since Hoddle the appointments have been ancient fossil managers or useless Englishman

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Shearer, Hoddle??

Fuck me we are so backwards when it come to football in this country its untrue.

Im awaiting some fucktard in the media coming out with Rooney as player/manager!

Are we really, Germany picked Klinsmann, Italy pick every ex player to be there manager at some point. Buffon will be in charge of the national team about 3 years after he retires. Brazil are the same. Shearer is fucking awful but to say picking untested old players or returning to old managers is not a English formed bit of thinking

 

[moomba]

Im just saying history tells us Hiddink while good at club level a few years ago but not recently has always been terrible at international level
Im not sure there is an answer maybe someone more forward thinking with a personality, as since Hoddle the appointments have been ancient fossil managers or useless Englishman

He was great with Australia in 2006.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

He was great with Australia in 2006.

Yeah but Australias area isn't the strongest I mean they play teams that have 11 people on the island!
And in the WC which was what he was essentially brought in to do they won 1 game, drew 1 and lost 2. Aussies love him though as it was their first World Cup in 34 years

 

[blueinsa]

Are we really, Germany picked Klinsmann, Italy pick every ex player to be there manager at some point. Buffon will be in charge of the national team about 3 years after he retires. Brazil are the same. Shearer is fucking awful but to say picking untested old players or returning to old managers is not a English formed bit of thinking

Germany, Italy and Brazil actually have world class players and win things.....

Shearer and Hoddle?

 

[moomba]

Yeah but Australias area isn't the strongest I mean they play teams that have 11 people on the island!
And in the WC which was what he was essentially brought in to do they won 1 game, drew 1 and lost 2. Aussies love him though as it was their first World Cup in 34 years

To be fair the losses were to Brazil and a heartbreaker to Italy. Should have beaten Croatia if not for Graham (3 yellow cards) Poll blowing up early as we were about to put the ball in the net.

But it was more the way we played that tournament. It was our first in a long while and to date our best.

Australia is in Asia now, so the game against island teams don't happen all that often. Not sure if we'd moved confederations back then though.

 

[mat]

Boris Johnson is putting in for it.

 

[Jimfv1]

Beckham is the latest ex-player name according to one of the daily rags.

Surely if English it has to be Allardyce, and he'd sort the defence, although I'd prefer Klinsman who would bring the english football more up to date than that we've been subjected too since 1990.

 

[its a Barm]

There are no good candidates that are English, sad to say, so I would go for Klinsman. The guy knows world football having been around international football for many years.