Come anticipate Fabio Capello's two years as England manager with me

Lampard's been better for England than Gerrard?

both pish

i think they've both proven that at club level also.

xxxp to nv

still think becks should come back as captain

Don't watch England intently enough to notice how Lampard performs tbh, Gerrard is more blatantly shite

Sharpe Carrick Scholes Beckham

imo

        
            parker
    gerrard     lampard
lennon                  young
            rooney

Or whoever instead of young

obv tho, i'd have thudd in there instead of lampard once he's back fit

Play them both just for the obesity lols.

Plus Nicky Barmby and I'm sure we can convince Andy Reid he has an English grandmother somewhere.

Harry Redknapp has declared that his focus is Tottenham Hotspur - despite being heavily linked with the England manager's job.

Redknapp told the BBC News Channel that it would not be right to think about the England job.

"I've never thought about it (the England job). They (the FA) will make whatever decision they want to make and hopefully be right for the country."

parker wilshere and thudd is actually my eng central mid, fwiw, and if i could think of a passer as good as thudd i'd happily swap tbh

scholes it is then

First England manager job should be convincing McClean he isn't Irish if Trapp doesn't want him.

Norn Iron surely? Oh hold on, he's from Derry

Capped for NI at U21 level

Redknapp told the BBC News Channel that it would not be right to think about the England job.

"I've never thought about it (the England job). They (the FA) will make whatever decision they want to make and hopefully be right for the country."

= "YES PLZ!!!"

Capped for NI at U21 level

AKA the ROI reserves

FA should nab Hughton now before he signs for Ireland in the post Trapp era and wins them the 2018 world cup.

jol assistant manager

di canio wld hit the lol and edl quota, right?

Redknapp told the BBC News Channel that it would not be right to think about the England job.
"I've never thought about it (the England job). They (the FA) will make whatever decision they want to make and hopefully be right for the country."

= "how about i keep my tottenham job, refuse the england job but will often be found being a guest at england's training sessions and have a seat during the england games, unpaid, of course, btw I love my cat to bits"

http://jobs.brandrepublic.com/job/465007/england-football-manager-london-wembley-travel-required-/

Probably waiting for the FA to stick some readies in his dog's bank account, knowhorramean?

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Psycho's in charge

(Gawd's sake, that new BBC football site is an eyesore)

<i>http://jobs.brandrepublic.com/job/465007/england-football-manager-london-wembley-travel-required-/<;/i>

'ow will 'arry 'apply if 'e don't use computers 'or 'email 'or phones 'or car windows?

'oops.

pearce/gnev/southgate under arry's part-time directorship with becks media rep and terry community liaision

"They need to do what Spain have done"

http://www.stressaffect.com/images/laughter-10.jpg

barry fry, btw, one more time- a thrice-repugant fourth-generation orrible cunt

Eurgh. Sorry but what-the-Germans-have-done or gtfo. Spain have had 1 ridiculously good youth acadamy and 3 or 4 p good ones and is loaded w/ debt so it might just be a one off generation thing and anyone looking at that thinking it is a good idea needs a slap.

we will continue to do what the English have done i.e. fuck all

Well yes. Still don't understand why a team like Wolves aren't looking at Dortmund or Gladbach and seeing a no-brainer freebie of an idea tho.

Capello's reaction after reading Phil McNulty's latest blog entry.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/58395000/jpg/_58395692_58395691.jpg

xp

we had another thread pondering the grim inertia of english football but my head hurts too much to think about why any more. greed + xenophobia + innate conservatism + the remnants of the class system + football "culture" plus god knows what else

Having the "best league in the world"?

If it ain't broke etc!

symptom more than cause imo but

this is like when the Roman Empire had the best arenas in the world and then suddenly their army was shit

Winning the World Cup with Alan Ball, Nobby Stiles + Jack Charlton in the same side didn't help

'suddenly'

don't really care about international success all that much
actually rather like things the way they are

When I heard this my first reaction was to recall that slogan from the Czechs as the tanks marched into Prague: 'Wake up Lenin they've all gone mad'. Associaton/memory blah.

Hilarious if arry was convincted, but actually that trial shd help, imagine the mud that would've been slung at him as the Euros approached. He effectively passed his interview during the trial.

Rafa is a better choice.

for what?

We know how this ends anyway: Redknapp leads England to semi-final defeat to German on penalties -> WC qualifying starts well -> Mail on Sunday expose on massive raft of previously unknown Redknapp bungs -> Redknapp sacked -> England fail to qualify for 2014 World Cup under new manager Roy Hodgson after conceding a heartbreaking late equaliser against Greece.

... scored by Georgios Samaras

don't really care about international success all that much

i cd care less really and yet

there's something so maddening about the endless misadministration and underachieving celebs and baying jingoism that part of me wd just like to see people of good will create a national football ethos to be proud of, just once.

Haven't we had 10 years of 'why the shit don't we just let Trevor Brooking have free reign? we keep thinking everything he says sounds sensible and achievable and always do the complete fucking opposite in an incompetent manner.'