“Why do you have to stoop to pathetic misspelling of a persons name to emphasise your point. I also hope they can an English manager good enough. I also hope they can an English manager good enough. Whoever it is it will be a poisoned chalice if the team fails to win.”

“Oops!! copy and paste finger having a digital malfunction.”

“It does not matter who manages England the players are second rate only hyped up by our desperate press.
Rednapp is another joke choice 20 + years in management and very little too show ,by his own admission cannot write a letter, e-mail, fax more fodder for the media when his certin failure occurs (if he is appointed )
I am sure somebody will shout Rooney but like all the previous deperate media hypes of Gasgoine, Beckham etc. they are always found wanting when the class level is raised.
The only true world class player of recent years has been Shearer.”

“Rednapp will take on the job, if it's cash in hand, probably. QAKID is right though. I think Stuart Pearce should be given a chance. He's got that bulldog spirit and played for pride. Maybe he could transfer some of his patriotism onto the over-paid prima donnas.

Why is that stooping? He was rubbish. What would have happened if (big if), Crapello had got England to the final against Italy? Where would his loyalties have been?”

“Why not give the job to Rednapp's dog, after all it's already got it's own bank account :)”

“Stuart Pearce as you say would lead by his own wholeheareted example the problem is the ability level , he cannot change that and bulldog spirit, pride, committment whatever will only get you so far .
The press pick the managers then destroy them when inevitably with our second rate players they fail.”

“Martin O'Neill.”

“Martin ONeill decent club manager , not english though.
Rednapps dog as good as anybody.
The fault is with the ability level of the english players and the hype pressure put on them by the we want to sell papers media .
Flooding the english game with foreign players was marketted years ago as raising the levels of the engish players already there but in reality it has had the opposite effect and restricted up and coming talent and raised the already inflated egos of the media favourites.”

“An English national team demands that the players be English, so why not make it mandatory to have an English manager?”

“Just a final word if there is a will to take the english game forward , most of the clubs need to stop buying and paying huge fees and wages for and to foreign players, concentrate on home grown talent and employ young british managers..
OK this will never happen with the chosen few (Man und,city, chelsea) but let them get on with it win the league, cups etc. with their expensive talent ( short term)but in time ( time being the factor) a new generation may be in a position to challenge and change the flow of international malaise.
The alternative more of the same along with the same lame excuses.”

“Whoever gets the managers job, I hope he comes with a magic wand, he is going to need it, with the second rate players he will be dealing with!”

“"Martin ONeill decent club manager , not english though." - So? Relevant?”

“Evening all...

Eric Pickles definitely the man for the job..He could possibly get England in shape,and buy them lighter so they dont keep loseing their matches.

Lord Whopping Foghole.. George Best,gone but not forgotten..”

“I'm not really into football especially with the amount of Racism that shames the game. However its a well known fact that the vast majority of successful managers over the year's are foreign !.”

“A table in this mornings paper showed a list of all england managers since the war.
Capello was the most successful in wins against matches played.
28 wins 8 draws and 6 defeats, a 67% winning out of 42 games played.

As regards rednapp's dog would be no good its dead.”

“I'd go with Martin O'Neil, he's Bristish so close enough!”

“England needs a manager who not only understands strategy and motivation but football psychology. One who will develop a young, hungry team. One who knows how to orchestrate a whole game. One who knows when to attack and when to hold back. One who knows the difference between attacking to score, and attacking as a defensive measure. One who can recognize which players are off form and which are lazy. England has had enough managers who thinks there is a team, which, in the right combination will be a winner. Unfortunately, it's doubtful that such a manager is available.”

“If England are paying £6million a year to the next manager, we should go for the best manager out there whatever their nationality. Does anyone seriously think we should ignore the claims of Mourinho or Wenger so that we can pick a second rate Englishman?”

“Firstly, I don't see why people have an issue with Cappello. He did well with what he had. The quality of English footballer comparatively is pretty low right now. They're often made to look good by their foreign counterparts at club level. Take Wayne Rooney for example, the service he gets from Valencia, Giggs, Scholes, can he get that with England? Can Theo Walcott put it on a plate for him like Valencia does? Steven Gerrard has been excellent over the years at Liverpool, driving the team, playing in the killer pass, but he's had forwards like Owen and Torres to work with, can you get the same effect with Heskey or Zamora in front of you? No disrespect to the players mentioned, but other teams, our peers, have much better players and can perform well as teams.

I do think ideally an English manager would be good, because they have the patriotism at heart, but that shouldn't be the main criteria. France are pining for Arsene Wenger to take over the national team role, because he can develop young players, France does not see the Managers role as only that of coach for the first team, but head of national football, he would have input in the development of youngsters, the under 18's the under 21's etc.

Would you really turn down someone like Wenger because he's not English. Rafa Benitez is a manager with a track record of making teams play well for cup competitions, he knows the english game, speaks the lingo, why would you turn him down because he isn't english? What about someone like Guss Hidink, who in the past has managed S.Korea and Russia and turned them into hard teams to beat, England has a better depth of talent than both those nations.

I think Moyes and O'Neill shouldn't be discounted, both men with great man management skills, who can run on a budget (ie work with limited talent, which describes England through and through).”