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Post by JoeinOz on Jul 19, 2024 17:40:11 GMT
There's always the idea English managers don't get big jobs. Perhaps if they looked to work overseas it'd be a good step. Strasbourg is available. Are any of them going to apply? Look at how Graham Potter made his mark… Precisely
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Post by JoeinOz on Jul 19, 2024 17:46:12 GMT
There's always the idea English managers don't get big jobs. Perhaps if they looked to work overseas it'd be a good step. Strasbourg is available. Are any of them going to apply? I agree. I think that the parochialism you refer to inflicts damage on England's chances across the board: coaches, players, tactics, etc, they're all at least one step behind the best on offer elsewhere. There's no reason why they should be. Why can't England become a world leader like Spain, France, Argentina etc in producing players, coaches, teams. No reason, but it never seems to happen. In the last 20 years Spain have demonstrated a football culture can evolve. In some respects English football has too.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 19, 2024 18:51:18 GMT
They don’t get them though because they’re not good enough. There’s an issue in English football with the quality of the managers we produce. Too many managers of clubs in England are ex-footballers. This does not necessarily mean that they will make good managers (eg Stanley Matthews at Port Vale). For too many years, coaching was not considered essential and the English/British tended to think that footballers were born and there was no need to havehundreds of coaches qualifying if they were not going to be employed. Many non-British managers tend not to think 'outside the box' in tactics and strategy - the job risk is too great and you can't blame them. I am old enough to remember the 1953 Puskas-inspired Hungarians (2 matches v England won 6-3 and 7-1). The England players could not even understand what their opponents were doing or how they were playing. It had not been thought necessary to coach our players in their own technical requirements let alone instruct them in the requirements for countering their opponents. Preaching to the choir 👍
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Post by baconburger on Jul 19, 2024 20:34:03 GMT
I agree. I think that the parochialism you refer to inflicts damage on England's chances across the board: coaches, players, tactics, etc, they're all at least one step behind the best on offer elsewhere. There's no reason why they should be. Why can't England become a world leader like Spain, France, Argentina etc in producing players, coaches, teams. No reason, but it never seems to happen. In the last 20 years Spain have demonstrated a football culture can evolve. In some respects English football has too. Yeah we’re behind the curve. They used to be boring as hell and won everything. We’ve only yet got the hang of being as boring as hell.
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