The People's (Media's) Choice
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Woy, he is a manager not a circus
Tricky Dicky
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Although all the media were saying "Harry is the fans choice", I spoke to remakably few people who echoed this.
Having thought about it a bit more, I think the FA have done exactly the right thing, in the right way ...... for once.
Having thought about it a bit more, I think the FA have done exactly the right thing, in the right way ...... for once.
The Giant Bolster
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- Apr 18, 2012
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Woy, he's a football man. No distractions.
He is 64. I'm not sure a long term project was in mind when appointing him, perhaps more he was the best available man for the job at the time. We have to be looking at success, surely? I don't think we will get it at the Euro's, it's too soon, but in Brazil definitely. We shouldn't settle for less that success, but it's the measure of success you use. I think a semi-final would be successful, in my opinion. Others might demand more or less from him.
England on the international scene have become a joke. We're not the team we think we are. If he can get our national side some gravitas within world football again he would have done his job. I think four years is going to be his shelf life. Look at the European international managers at the moment, they're all relatively new appointments. Providing we don't have a disastrous competition this summer, I would find it hard to believe he will be there post the next championships, or even Brazil. Most countries will cycle managers post a World Cup. Capello got longer, however, I think the goal for us has to be a solid European championship, followed by a World Cup Final in Brazil. We should be aiming for this (although I don't think we can achieve it).
Out of interest, 34 European countries have appointed a new manager since 2010: Luxembourg, Andorra, Armenia, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Greece, France, Hungary, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Finland, Ukraine, Cyprus, Romania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Austria, Iceland, Serbia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Faroe Islands, Belarus, Turkey, Albania, Israel, Moldova, Northern Ireland, Lithuania, Wales, Slovakia, Malta, and England.
Let's just give him time to see what he can do.
Tricky Dicky
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4 years is about the shelf-life of most England managers at the mo, and Harry is 64 as well. Don't bank on anything in Brazil - the heat will be the excuse, I can just hear it now. I just hope Woy is given a decent chance with it.
Discodoktor
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Me 4 Roy
There's no reason why we cannot start conditioning for the head ahead of the tournament. Sports performance centres replicate the humidity and heat of other countries to help top athletes train and prepare for this sort of thing. I'm sure England would do the same. I was fortunate enough to visit the Porsche performance centre at Silverstone recently to see how the help people train for marathons in the Sahara. I'm sure England will have access to these sorts of facilities in preparation.
HawkTheSeagull
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Redknapp was overhyped so much by the media as to being the messiah basically. Hodgson is a good guy with bags of experience and he knows what he is doing - but of course a lot wanted 'Arry just because loads of papers wanted him IE The Sun.
- Jul 7, 2003
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But Harry has won the Intertoto Cup and the (equivalent of the) Johnstone's Paint Trophy, people.
Luckily he's not a man to blow his own trumpet, for sure, and he thinks it's triffic that Roy has got the job and he never thought about putting himself forward for a second.
God, I bet he's absolutely GUTTED, given how hard his Sun buddies worked to get him the job
Luckily he's not a man to blow his own trumpet, for sure, and he thinks it's triffic that Roy has got the job and he never thought about putting himself forward for a second.
God, I bet he's absolutely GUTTED, given how hard his Sun buddies worked to get him the job
Tricky Dicky
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Only if the clubs agree to it, and I doubt they'd allow it mid-season, so it'll be couple of weeks before they get on the plane. Would like to be wrong, I'm just saying don't hold your breath for that WC.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 26,207
It's just lazy journalism -
Harry gets the job and you can guarantee closets full of skeletons filling the back pages for years
Roy gets the job and someone may have to start thinking what to write
Harry gets the job and you can guarantee closets full of skeletons filling the back pages for years
Roy gets the job and someone may have to start thinking what to write
Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
- 5,540
2,000 years ago the people chose Barabbas....
The Large One
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Unlikely, the heat won't be much of an issue. It's the same temperature as here.
It's true: the coolest average min/ low temperature is 11 °C in June, July.
- Jul 15, 2009
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Harry Redknapp's a f***ing liar. I'm glad he's not England manager, I'd want him to fail.
He should have been jailed for his tax evasion. I don't know how he got away with that. As for saying 'he writes like a two-year-old' what a load of bollocks, I got a signed autobiography and there's nothing wrong with his handwriting at all.
He should have been jailed for his tax evasion. I don't know how he got away with that. As for saying 'he writes like a two-year-old' what a load of bollocks, I got a signed autobiography and there's nothing wrong with his handwriting at all.
- Jul 7, 2003
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