Odds for the Next England Manager
Here are the latest odds for the next England manager from William Hill: Jose Mourinho - 5/1
Martin O'Neill - 11/2
Felipe Scolari - 6/1
Guus Hiddink - 7/1
Stuart Pearce - 12/1
Marcello Lippi - 12/1
Alan Shearer 12/1
Alan Curbishley - 16/1
Fabio Capello - 16/1
Sam Allardyce - 16/1
Harry Redknapp - 16/1
Arsene Wenger - 25/1
Terry Venables - 25/1
I think that El Tel might be worth a flutter at 25/1 - anyone else?
posted by gatorbob @ 10:09 AM
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Everyone is dropping out of contention!!!
I don't want Capello. He was fired by Real after winning the championship for playing BORING football.
Did you guys read my last comment on the previous post?
I grasping at straws here!!!
I doubt whether there will be significant civil unrest in either of those countries. Turkey is the only one that's ripe for it because of the cross-border incursions into Iraqi-Kurdish territory. But, unfortunately, I reckon that England's boys will be watching at home this summer. Should give them the kick of the arse they sorely need to get it together for the next campaign. Honestly!
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Has Alan Shearer even had a managerial post yet? Is he coaching at Newcastle? That really seems like grasping for a former hero.
Did you see that England have dropped to #12 in the rankings? They have been leapfrogged by Greece and are now not in the top nine in Europe and will not be a #1 seed for the World Cup draw on Sunday!!
Right, they'll be in pot two of the draw on Sunday, which means that we're likely to get at least one tasty side. Can you really argue with dropping below Greece, though, given that Greece won Euro 2004 and qualified again for this one?
I hope all of you had fun galavanting around our nation's capital with out me!!!!
Sorry David. The US has pursued a mostly unilateral foreign policy and ham-strung any possible sanction effort to stop any of the qualifying teams from playing next summer. Best bet would be booting the Russians out for their awful behavior in Georgia, but they've got the natural gas and oil that the coldest bits of N.Europe are dependent upon.
And are you sure that England would qualify even then? Surely there was a third place team better than them? Denmark qualified as the next best team when the Yugoslavs were tossed out of the '92 finals. I'd be surprised to hear that England was the next best this time.
No chance mate.
I've been away for the computer, just too pissed off with the way England couldn't be bothered to qualify so I don't know who's in the running at the moment, but I can guess that very few from this list would be interested. You've pulled from the unlikely, Mourinho, Wenger, Venables, to the gainfully employed, Wenger again, O'Neill, to the wouldn't touch it with a 10-footer, Scolari, Hiddink, Capello.
It leaves a very sorry looking bunch and that's a big problem. But a bigger problem is the current pseudo-leadership at the FA charged with finding someone else. They're stupid, clumsy, and really the heart of the problem.
Until you hand up Barwick's head on a platter, no-one decent is going to want to take a job knowing that a very radical cull of the likes of Becks, Lampard, Gerrard, Terry, Rooney, Owen and other players who have not bothered to step up and qualify against a not-very-good Croatia, Russia, Israel, and Macedonia. If France or Holland had been in our group, what chance they would have maximum points at the finish? 85-90%, I bet. But we were gifted a second chance and injuries aside, were never likely to do it, were we?
It's going to be a bad choice Englishman again, like Allardyce, Redknapp, Curbs, Pearce, Shearer, or even worse, simply because no-one good would want to touch the job.
I reckon you're probably right, Gooner, unless the FA takes the steps that you're talking about. I'm not keen about the idea of a cynical but winning coach such as Capello or Scolari because, well, I suppose I'm a romantic at heart and I'd rather that the teams that I support win by playing good football rather than through gamesmanship. But if they were to decide to go out and get someone high profile such as Hiddink, they'd have to give him a deal that he couldn't resist: the promise of a lot of cash, freedom from the media circus, perhaps not having to live in the UK all the time, 100% backing when choosing the side and so on.
Gooner,
at least you week got better by the 80th minute!!
MINE SUCKED 100%
Exactly. The FA would have to give a Hiddink complete freedom and that's something that the English FA have done. As bad a track record of decision making as they have, they still imagine that they have something to offer in the way of expertise.
And no-one good will ever allow such a pack of buffoons like that hold sway over their efforts.
I read that Gordon Brown has put his oar in to try to clean up the FA. And that's no good because it will attract the fatso ignoramuses at FIFA who burp up their expensive lunches at the first hearing of a government trying to influence a country's FA.
So really, we're dependent on the FA to resign en masse so that rebuilding starts from the top down.
That's an unlikely scenario isn't it?
Ach, Davey,
I won't try and con you and say I'm sorry about your result, but I will say that I can sympathize because we've been brought down by that worthless wanker before. He exists only to be a pain in the hole.
P.S.
Bolton only exist to be a pain in the hole as well.
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