Meet the New Boss!
Steve McLaren began his new odyssey as England manager today, bringing with him a reputation as more a coach than manager, a somewhat sketchy record at Boro and the promise that he'll be "different from Sven." But what exactly does that mean? No more Owen Hargreaves?
posted by gatorbob @ 10:21 AM
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Well, the Big Mac has been good on his word. In his first day on the job, he's appointed England's first "sports psychologist" (sounds a bit like the Hoddle fortune teller business), banned the WAGS from future tournaments and brought in El Tel as his second-in-command. Bold moves at this stage. What do you make of them?
I also hear that he is going to Amsterdam to meet up with the United bigwigs and mend the rift between United and the FA
What rift would that be?
The Grandpa Simpson tantrum thrower that the now-toothless and easily ignored Lord Ferg is and will continue to be. I guess now that Carrick has moved there, and Rooney and Rio are there, McLaren thinks that he should try to make an outreach so that Sven's two-fingered salute to Ferg this past summer is forgotten.
Doesn't really matter as A) the FA has shown that in any club versus country dispute, they side with the England boss, and B) Ferguson is just not scary enough to his players if they ignore his wishes. Wayne Rooney knows that he won't spend a second on the bench if he swans off to a friendly that Ferg doesn't condone. Likewise, Rio knows he's the first defender written down on any starting 11.
I think the sports shrink idea is a good one. If those pens had been taken with more confidence this summer, we'd have been better off.
Perhaps McClaren's new path is just that he won't be shagging all the women in the typing pool at the FA, doesn't plan to sneak off to some bistro with slime like Kenyon, and will ask for something like a drivers licence or some other form of ID before he starts talking off the record to any fake sheikh that sidles up to him.
It's a start.
PS, his banning the WAGs is posturing. McLaren won't be around to carry out that threat.
But why not bring the WAGs? You're seriously going to deny players a shag for 30 or more days? Fit men in their twenties? No way does that make sense.
Won't be around to carry out the threat? Does that mean that England won't qualify for Euro 2008? Or McLaren will be sacked before the tournament? Or both? That sounds pretty dire.
I'm alright with the WAGs now that Becks seems to be on his way out. I'm sick of the sight of Posh with those big shades. Haven't made up my mind about Colleen yet.
Sacked before the tournament. My prediction is that we perform badly at first making the last 4 games must win. McLaren just isn't the guy to coach England to a trophy and you know it.
Honestly, I could give a crap about the individual WAGs. None of them have any kind of personality that makes them approach likeability. But the modern pretty-boy(Crouch excepted) player deserves these rail thin clothes horses. English guys just can't hack the "concentration" that say, the Italians do. From a purely male point of view, I can't see how the Italians can hack the no sex routine as long as they do.
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