Steve McClaren wins title with FC Twente. Not very ENGLISH is it?

[Colossal Squid]

Who was the last ENGLISH manager to win a major title in the top flight of any nation?

Clue: It was FOURTEEN years ago!

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Sir Bobby?

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

Weren't it Bobby Robson? With, erm, Porto?

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Bobby robson with barca? Or ROY HODGSON?

 

[Colossal Squid]

Yes, yes it was! (Bobby Robson with Porto)

Who'd have thunk it eh?

It'd be nice to see someone like Hodgson get a crack at a big job where he might get a chance to win major honours. English managers are seriously underrepresented on the big stage these days

 

[beorhthelm]

iirc, Twente are a sort of Everton level club (without the history). im not sure if that makes the achivement all the more impressive or shows the imbalance in our EPL.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Smaller than Everton, more of a Bolton. Mclaren said the title win equated to a club of Middlesborough's stature winning the EPL.

 

[sten_super]

Yes, yes it was! (Bobby Robson with Porto)

Who'd have thunk it eh?

It'd be nice to see someone like Hodgson get a crack at a big job where he might get a chance to win major honours. English managers are seriously underrepresented on the big stage these days

I assume that your tongue was firmly in your cheek there? Or do you not know that Hodgson has managed Inter Milan (twice!)?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Did he do that weird Dutch accent in the interviews again?

 

[bhafc99]

Mclaren said the title win equated to a club of Middlesborough's stature winning the EPL.

No he didn't. He said: "We shhmall club, not big club. So win very sssphecial. Isssh like Middlessshhborough – sshmall club, not big club – wins EPL."

 

[Husty]

I assume that your tongue was firmly in your cheek there? Or do you not know that Hodgson has managed Inter Milan (twice!)?

Not when they were in a particularly great state though

 

[Colossal Squid]

I assume that your tongue was firmly in your cheek there? Or do you not know that Hodgson has managed Inter Milan (twice!)?

Sorry, my comment was meant to suggest he be given a crack at a big English job (Liverpool, say).

I remember his stints at Inter Milan and I understand the fans still think fairly highly of him given that he performed pretty well with a comparatively weak team by Inter standards.

I've also just learned that he won the Danish league title when he was at Copenhagen in 2001 so I stand corrected in my assertion that Sir Bobby (Robson not Zamora) was the last English manager to win a league title. Mind you the Danish Superliga is hardly up there with La Liga, Serie A, the Portuguese Liga or even the French League.