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Big Sam It Is
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Well deserved, he should make us hard to beat at least.
Well deserved, he should make us hard to beat at least.
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Togo....if you're a Stoke fan it looks like you'll have to make do with Joe Allen!
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From my limited knowledge, and the reports I have read in the paper - it appears that SA is a good choice, being an experienced and respected manager.
Unfortunately, any England manager has thin gruel to work with - overpaid and pampered Premier stars who do not gel properly as a team - and that shows no sign of changing any time soon..
However, SA is renowned for his man-management abilities, so if anyone can get them pulling together, it would hopefully be him.
Unfortunately, any England manager has thin gruel to work with - overpaid and pampered Premier stars who do not gel properly as a team - and that shows no sign of changing any time soon..
However, SA is renowned for his man-management abilities, so if anyone can get them pulling together, it would hopefully be him.
//Unfortunately, any England manager has thin gruel to work with - //
Allardyce has made his name working with 'thin gruel' whatever that means.
//overpaid and pampered Premier stars who do not gel properly as a team - and that shows no sign of changing any time soon.. //
Er .... getting a team to gel is the managers job. If you don't see that changing anytime soon then Allardyce is the wrong choice.
Allardyce has made his name working with 'thin gruel' whatever that means.
//overpaid and pampered Premier stars who do not gel properly as a team - and that shows no sign of changing any time soon.. //
Er .... getting a team to gel is the managers job. If you don't see that changing anytime soon then Allardyce is the wrong choice.
Talbot - ////Unfortunately, any England manager has thin gruel to work with - //
Allardyce has made his name working with 'thin gruel' whatever that means. //
It means working with poor material. As a club manager, SA can take young hungry ambitious club fotballers and school them every week, passing on his knowledge, bringing out their skills, and playing them through a season - analysing and assisting them as they go.
Compare that to having charge of a bunch of arrogant millionaires who probably see an England shirt as their right, put together for a few weeks a year and told to play like a club side, not really bother too much, and then pop back to millionaire 'big fish/small pool' lives at their clubs.
There is no comparison - which is why England is a triumph of memories and imagined status over fact and reality in my view.
//overpaid and pampered Premier stars who do not gel properly as a team - and that shows no sign of changing any time soon.. //
Er .... getting a team to gel is the managers job. If you don't see that changing anytime soon then Allardyce is the wrong choice. //
It's the sheer practicality of not having a squad working together for anything like long enough to develop as a cohesive unit that doesn't change. Couple that with the laissez-faire attitude of millionaire players who have no serious incentive to win, and you are doomed before you start.
That is my view as a non-fan whose opinion is un-clouded by misty memories of 1966, and the peculiar, and utterly undeserved idea that England are somehow a superior team on the world stage.
Allardyce has made his name working with 'thin gruel' whatever that means. //
It means working with poor material. As a club manager, SA can take young hungry ambitious club fotballers and school them every week, passing on his knowledge, bringing out their skills, and playing them through a season - analysing and assisting them as they go.
Compare that to having charge of a bunch of arrogant millionaires who probably see an England shirt as their right, put together for a few weeks a year and told to play like a club side, not really bother too much, and then pop back to millionaire 'big fish/small pool' lives at their clubs.
There is no comparison - which is why England is a triumph of memories and imagined status over fact and reality in my view.
//overpaid and pampered Premier stars who do not gel properly as a team - and that shows no sign of changing any time soon.. //
Er .... getting a team to gel is the managers job. If you don't see that changing anytime soon then Allardyce is the wrong choice. //
It's the sheer practicality of not having a squad working together for anything like long enough to develop as a cohesive unit that doesn't change. Couple that with the laissez-faire attitude of millionaire players who have no serious incentive to win, and you are doomed before you start.
That is my view as a non-fan whose opinion is un-clouded by misty memories of 1966, and the peculiar, and utterly undeserved idea that England are somehow a superior team on the world stage.
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