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The Worst Job in England? |
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09/10/00 (123 review reads) |
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Advantages: High profile.
Disadvantages: High profile.
Could well have been a headline in The Sun, and if it was I swear I haven't read the paper.
The job was too big for Kevin Keegan and maybe it's too much for a foreign manager too; unless he can bring his foreign players with him. The Sun would have a field day digging for words like "Le Prat", or "Mon Dieu, You Pomme de Terre".
Aimet Jacquet is already being touted as a possible candidate but unfortunately the French team won't be able to join him.
The strain the media put on an England manager is unbelievable but I wouldn't say it's the worst job in the country -- it's the worst job in the world. Not only manager of England, but of any nation where a country expects their footballers to score on the pitch and not in nightclubs.
The problems start with the overpaid players who walk onto the pitch talking into mobile phones, to their pop-star wives or agents, before an important World Cup Qualifier.
Was Keegan's decision the right one?
The England manager may have still been popular with Hamburg fans before his country's last match at Wembley, but he should have packed it all in after Euro 2000; as respect to England.
To do so now, a few days before another qualifier in Helsinki, is not showing the team spirit he supposedly asked of his players before the Germany game. And again Howard Wilkinson has to pick up the pieces.
I've only met Kevin Keegan a couple of times, once for tea and toast in his Hamburg house and once after an England game in Budapest.
He's a very genuine man who's love of football must be feeling strained now. I would never have thought that he would go on to be the England manager, but that he has walked out like this has surprised me even more.
Kevin, if you're reading this, I've still got the signed football shirt and photos and wish you all the best with your golf and horses. You deser
ve a rest and I hope those corny pun writers let you have it.
God help the man who steps into your shoes.
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- 21/10/00 The trouble with the England team is we raise our game against the best sides but lower it against the poor ones! We always struggle no matter who we play and can win or lose 1-0 against France or Finland! If the players weren't so 'cocky' and tried 100% all the time we would do much better, although England are not one of the top 3 or 4 teams in the world who have a good chance of winning the WC. |
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- 12/10/00 oh Tn, you big name dropper you ;-) |
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- 12/10/00 It's all about expectations.The English media bang on about 1966 so often that the English expect to win every tournament.Here in Scotland our expectations are lower and that makes any little success all the sweeter.Our manager Craig brown is the second longest serving national coach in Europe and he's neither charismatic or successful.An impossible job that any successful club manager would be mad to take.You name dropper by the way! |
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