MrPin Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Gordon Ramsey. Not sure if he knows anything about football - but he'll swear at them a lot in the dressing-room, and tell them all how totally shite they are...! XYY My mate Cheffy can outswear Ramsey any day! And he was trained at the Savoy, so he can cook! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionTerror Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 Looking at his work history, it seems that Roy is a great example of the successful EU and the possibility of us all to work in other EU countries. Hodgson is multilingual: in addition to his native English, he speaks fluent Norwegian, Swedish, German and Italian, as well as some Danish, French and Finnish (Wiki) Impressive! I have massive respect for Woy...He went abroad, and on the whole did a great job where ever he went... Perhaps he should have got the England job 20 years ago, before his name was tainted with the club jobs he took in England... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Looking at his work history, it seems that Roy is a great example of the successful EU and the possibility of us all to work in other EU countries. Hodgson is multilingual: in addition to his native English, he speaks fluent Norwegian, Swedish, German and Italian, as well as some Danish, French and Finnish (Wiki) Impressive! I would be surpised if he was indeed "fluent" in all of those, but I guess I am always prepared to be surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karelian Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Next England Manager: LVG or David Beckham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The XYY Man Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 My mate Cheffy can outswear Ramsey any day! And he was trained at the Savoy, so he can cook! OK, so not Gordon Ramsey then. How about Paul Gascoigne...? XYY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karelian Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 OK, so not Gordon Ramsey then. How about Paul Gascoigne...? XYY Big Ron? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 British football is far too insular for my liking, with the same old names cropping up...Sam Allardyce could have been England manager four times by now... Some of our players should go abroad (if anyone would have them), and the best English coach out there is probably Eddie Howe... If we had any true professionals they would leave to play in other countries to improve their football knowledge. Unfortunately most of our players are too thick and have had too much money thrown at them and have gone for the comfortable option. We are probably the only nation at the Euro's where 100% of our players play in their home league. FFS even Iceland have players who play aboard. It's the same with our managers, no one wants English managers abroad. Not once has an African nation appointed an English manager to take them through the World Cup. Our players are 5h1t and so are the managers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankief Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I would be surpised if he was indeed "fluent" in all of those, but I guess I am always prepared to be surprised. You don't need a lot of vocabulary in football: four four two, diamond, christmas tree are good ones to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The XYY Man Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Big Ron? An interesting suggestion - but surely Gazza still shades it purely on his man-management skills..? Ron would simply tear-a-new-árse off the weaker members of the team in front of other players - whereas Gazza would stick on a pair of plastic tits, and buy the offending player four cans of Special Brew and a kebab... XYY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopGun Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I stopped following England a few years ago. Their style is just too primitive. Sometimes gets results (coming back to beat Germany 2-3 in a friendly was good, a few months ago) but odds are it's not going win tournaments against better sides. Accepted about Iceland. Perhaps only shows that not only is it primitive in attack, but also leaky for defence, against all types of teams. Highlights suggested to me Iceland wanted it more. I just don't know any more. Bobby Robson (good) Veneables (mostly good), Svenn, Hoddle, Capello, Umbrella Steve, Hodgson. That's my memory. Pochettino is a brave choice, although I like him. I just think we need radical adjustments, but don't know how to make them myself. There's no easy obvious choice is there? I really thought Hoddle was the one to take us to the promised land, then out of nowhere it just fell apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 There's no easy obvious choice is there? I really thought Hoddle was the one to take us to the promised land, then out of nowhere it just fell apart.The press took him down because he liked pissing them off.Hodgson was the right choice after Hoddle, not 15 years down the line. Now? I don't think it matters. As long as they don't just throw a massive bag of money at anyone with a track record of even a modicum of success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionTerror Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 An interesting suggestion - but surely Gazza still shades it purely on his man-management skills..? Ron would simply tear-a-new-árse off the weaker members of the team in front of other players - whereas Gazza would stick on a pair of plastic tits, and buy the offending player four cans of Special Brew and a kebab... XYY Big Ron wouldn't go down well with the black players.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The XYY Man Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Big Ron wouldn't go down well with the black players.. Whereas exactly the opposite was true of Gazza. I watched something recently on the BBC where Alan Shearer met up with some of the players from Euro '98 - and during the interviews, many funny anecdotes were told. One of these stories was one whereby Gazza was forced to share a hotel room with a senior player - whose task it was to ensure Paul stayed sober for as much of the tournament as possible. I think the player chosen by Venables was Paul Ince. Worked OK for a day or two - but by the end of the first week, that much drink was going in there of an evening that the room became known to everyone as "Ince's Bar"...! XYY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Banner Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 They should keep the one they've got....... too funny . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Big Ron wouldn't go down well with the black players.. He got on well with his son Dalian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I say let Shearer have a go. He couldn't do any worse. Seems like a decent, honourable man as well (although Roy was as well). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormymonday_2011 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 An interesting suggestion - but surely Gazza still shades it purely on his man-management skills..? Ron would simply tear-a-new-árse off the weaker members of the team in front of other players - whereas Gazza would stick on a pair of plastic tits, and buy the offending player four cans of Special Brew and a kebab... XYY I would pay good money to see England turn out in that team kit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The XYY Man Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I would pay good money to see England turn out in that team kit Me too stormy. In fact - I'd suffer weeks of pain and abuse licking the dressing-room toilets clean just to experience that wonderful moment of sheer pleasure. Thankfully - there are still one-or-two things in life that simply paying good money for isn't quite enough of a sacrifice... XYY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Hodgson was the right choice after Hoddle, not 15 years down the line. hodgson was the right choice after graham taylor. the problem lies within the FA itself.they employ "yes men", rather than someone who will put a rocket up them and answer back with their own ideas. the mindset is much like the remainiacs, anyone who disagrees with them is a heretic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 An interesting suggestion - but surely Gazza still shades it purely on his man-management skills..? Ron would simply tear-a-new-árse off the weaker members of the team in front of other players - whereas Gazza would stick on a pair of plastic tits, and buy the offending player four cans of Special Brew and a kebab... XYY He would indeed! If I was Eddie Howe I'd give Gazza a role at Bournemouth, just something like two afternoons a week coaching the Academy players. I think he'd be excellent at it plus it would give him a purpose. Next England manager? I'd go for an established international manager, it's a very different skill set to club management. And Lars Lagerback (Iceland and excellent record) seems ideal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 hodgson was the right choice after graham taylor. the problem lies within the FA itself.they employ "yes men", rather than someone who will put a rocket up them and answer back with their own ideas. the mindset is much like the remainiacs, anyone who disagrees with them is a heretic. Which is why clough never got the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionTerror Posted June 30, 2016 Author Share Posted June 30, 2016 Phew, dodged a bullet there... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/29/gareth-southgate-not-interested-in-succeeding-roy-hodgson-with-england Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lulu Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Someone who can introduce some passing intelligent football, to draw out teams and create better attacks. Instead of the wham-bam race forward primitive football we've played for 26+ years. I would settle for a manger who picked players in form and played them in their best position. For some reason England managers seem intent on picking certain players without much thought about getting specialist players for each position. Hodgson was obsessed about getting Rooney and Wilshire into the side and shoving strikers onto the wings. Before that was the interminable debate about if gerrard and lampard could play together - evidence suggested over and over that they could not. What about fit and in form players like Townsend, Milner, Henderson? I would guarantee any of these could have taken a corner properly in France instead of making Kane and Rooney take them (awfully) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Hodgson was the right choice after Hoddle, not 15 years down the line. The England job is best suited to an older man because, quite frankly, the chances are that you'll get 4/5 years in post and then never work again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 That's a lot of Sterling! £180,000-a-week England flop Raheem shows off his blinging house - complete with jewel-encrusted bathroom and fleet of supercars - hours after flying home in disgrace from Euro 2016 Raheem Sterling (inset top left) looked in good spirits as he showed off a mansion and fleet of supercars in a video shared on Snapchat just hours after England landed back in the UK on their private jet following their embarrassing loss to Iceland in the second round of Euro 2016. Still wearing his England team blue and white polo shirt, the former Liverpool player is seen smiling as he takes a group of friends on a tour of the luxury pad, including a garish bathroom - complete with crystal-encrusted sink (right) and matching silver toilet and bidet (left). The group also took a look at a private cinema. How you do motivate talent like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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