https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/21/harry-maguire-calls-on-premier-league-to-raise-threshold-and-avoid-soft-penalties
Harry Maguire: "You should be able to defend"
I have no comment. Sometimes its just too easy.
He's relatively inoffensive, so would tick the box in that respect from the FA's point of view. He'd fit the blazer, toe the line.
However, he would be a disaster of an appointment. As we've all seen, his methods take a long time to bed in, and he simply would not get the time on the training...
By that barometer, every single manager since 1966 has failed at tournaments, if winning the whole thing is the only thing that should count towards keeping them in a job. 1 tournamant, fail to win = "next please".
I'm still waiting to hear who this "tactically astute" manager is who can come...
Despite cruising to qualification again (not something we could always take for granted), I just KNEW that the pitchfork mob would be out in force, queuing up to lose their shit because we didn't go and win two dead-rubbers by an aggregate of 17-0 playing like Brazil 70, whilst fielding a couple...