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yes and ultimately I think it was his lack of experience that told him it was a good idea to blab his mental views to the media instead of keeping it to himself. Tactically he was definitely good but did seem to struggle as a man manager I'm wondering who else was in the frame in 1996? Chelsea...

yes and there's also the situation where a lot of top level players go into management and don't quite appreciate that the guys they're managing aren't at their level- Roy Keane is an example of that who had freakishly high standards as a player. It's been said of Hoddle that he was always the...

certainly Euro 2000 was a tough one as it was a bit transitional but I reckon he could have potentially got more out of the 2002 squad than Sven did

Didier Deschamps as well

I think if he'd got the England job when he was a bit more experienced then Glenn Hoddle would be one but ultimately he got it too soon and it did him in I think. He got the England job in 1996, at that point he'd only been managing since 1991 but he'd been a player-manager until 1995, playing...

yeh I'm not sure anyone really ticks both boxes. There's good players who became great managers and great players who became good managers but none of englands greats have gone on to have great managerial careers.