Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

the era of Rafa Benitez, Spurs manager will be an amazing one for ILF.

would be amazing to be the first unblinkered rafa fan but it's early days yet and if that happens it happens i'm just focused on training my players on fm2011

What programme was Marcotti on? Would like to listen to that on the iplayer if possible.

He was on 5live tonight somewhere around 7.20-7.50 I think. Just a v short interview with him and also Ian McGarry. Apparantely he was also on Monday night as well but I missed that.

*apparently*

don't think capello's come out of it badly, tbh? Got to take a principled exit out of a job that he probably wasn't ever going to get right- not a slight on him, i might add, a swap would suit me nicely.

it's perhaps unfortunate that the principle could be taken as "i like racism" rather than the "i pick the team" it was probably intended as.

'i'm getting the fuck out of here' was the more obvious one, tbh, but yeah ok.

i've kind of missed the whole furore but i think Capello has been a bit of a dick tbh

obviously no one would like being taken to task by the FA but still

principle of getting the fuck out of there is admittedly a good one.

Just in case we'd forgotten his Arsenal tattoo:

Born in London's east end in 1947, he supported Arsenal as a boy, spending his weekends on the terraces at Highbury.

His whole weekends?

they was ard times son

shivering on the terrace at ighbury waiting for the all clear to sound

bat people was friendlier then too, you could leave your front door open and when you got ome somebody would've slipped a undred grand totally legal payment under the doormat

they only ever bunged their own

the dear old queen mam used to cam dahn the ighbury all the time shaking ands and anding out bags of sand to teary-eyed street urchins

it's perhaps unfortunate that the principle could be taken as "i like racism" rather than the "i pick the team" it was probably intended as.

Capello told Italian newspaper La Republica: "In Madrid I breathed a sparkling atmosphere, the air of a country in Europe making the greatest progress. When I returned to Italy it seemed I had taken two steps back.

"Spain in two words? Latin warmth and creativity regulated by a rigorous order. The order which comes from Franco."

When reminded that Franco was a dictator, Capello replied: "But he left a legacy of order. In Spain everything works well, there is education, cleanliness, respect. We should follow their example."

Big fan of Lega Nord as well iirc.

When he scored for Italy at Wembley in 1973, he dedicated it to Italian immigrants he said were treated like "waiters" by the British.

Interesting

Mourinho is a bit of right winger too, yes? (xp)

Mourinho is reportedly very right-wing but he never actually talks about it?

Mourinho's father was a goalkeeper in Portugal's national squad. More significantly, the family's fortunes depended on the stability of the fascist regime. Mourinho's great-uncle owned a factory for canning sardines which, in the days before burgers and pizza, were a patriotic staple of the national diet. After the revolution, the cannery workers expropriated the business; Setubal, the coastal town where Mourinho was born, acquired a communist mayor, and his parents - stigmatised as bourgeois - had to move out of their big house. This sudden, humiliating demotion left Mourinho with unregenerately right-wing views

Sardines? The monster!

(that autocorrected to 'The mister!' for some reason - phone crossing line to sentience imo)

"In Spain everything works well... We should follow their example."

Cap at the vanguard of lazy punditry imo, this was before they even won anything.

Franco was right

He was only trying to help his pet monkey

trainings ran on time

Some lips he had on him too

It's really easy to lose sight of how big communism and fascism still are in Italy especially and Spain. People seem to speak more often in those terms than simple right and left, certainly out in the country anyway, grudges are still borne.

Don't the ultras of Roma & Lazio have communist and fascist sympathies respectively?

i never really thought about how much more capello earned than a midwife until i saw it graphically depicted in piles of cash as a direct comparison on sky news every ten minutes

awesome! is everybody who works for Sky News on a comparable pay scale to a midwife then?

when did midwives become the standard unit of salary btw?

both roma and lazio have predoimantly right-wing ultras i think. most well known italian left-wing ultras are atalanta and livorno though i don't know about communist sympathies.

when did midwives become the standard unit of salary btw?

from birth, one imagines

midwives on 35k not fuckin bad imo

i'd swap

i mean babies been getting born a long time before midwives arrived, and somehow it worked, but england national team have had a manager since day 1 just sayin

england should go with a 'selection committee for the lols like the #1 ranked cricket team. wait, cricket is still done by committee yeah? Or is it a manager now?

iirc historically the england national team didn't have a manager originally. think Winterbottom was the first, mid 50s? selected by committee of gentlemen before then or sump'n

Although Walter Winterbottom was appointed as England's first ever full time manager in 1946, the team was still picked by a committee until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963.

says Wiki

might as well bite the bullet and do it X-Factor style

suggested that already in the other thread, wd be excellent if arry ad to sing

so

there's an argument that it is a job best done by an english/british manager

right?

i dunno if there's an argument that it's best done by an english.

i think there's an argument that it probably ought to be an english, but that argument might lead to hilarious discussion about what constitutes a "developing football nation"

yeah i kinda assumed that the team has to be of one nationality so the manager does too unless you are a 'developing football country' and need outside expertise.
england going with a foreign coach always seemed to be not quite playing the game, or a comment on our position in world football.

the team has to be of one nationality

It doesn't though