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[Football] Who's the best manager England have ever had?
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Publius Ovidius
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Alf Ramsey obviously
joe mercer
bobby robson
joe mercer
bobby robson
Alf Ramsey, obviously. Silly question, and no need for a list of failed managers for a poll.
McLaren 
Best manager England never had….Clough.
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It would have been good to see what he would have achieved. Shame he never got the chance.
Interestingly he once said that his greatest regret was not taking the Brighton job more seriously.
Allardyce. Had the best win % by miles.
jonny.rainbow
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Wilkinson on the list but not Peter Taylor?
Billy in Bristol
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Hipster view but ìf they had kept Joe Mercer in charge it would have been interesting
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The forgotten story of … England under Joe Mercer | Rob Bagchi
Rob Bagchi: It lasted only 36 days, but Uncle Joe's free-wheeling style as caretaker manager put a smile back on the face of English football after failing to qualify for the 1974 World Cup
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Yep, really wish he could have had the England job..............................
..............if that meant he never joined Brighton.
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Obviously a bit of an odd question, which should be "After Ramsey, who is....", Shirley.
I'm most fond of Robson and Venables but they managed some absolute shite shows too, seemingly forgotten (Beardsley was Robson's saviour) so that's mostly about nostalgia (Robson and Gazza, the 4-1 vs Holland etc etc).
Sven gave me the best game (the 5-1) but that was a solitary highlight.
Probably Hoddle, who may have gone on to do well if not vocalising his odd beliefs and the British press.
I'm most fond of Robson and Venables but they managed some absolute shite shows too, seemingly forgotten (Beardsley was Robson's saviour) so that's mostly about nostalgia (Robson and Gazza, the 4-1 vs Holland etc etc).
Sven gave me the best game (the 5-1) but that was a solitary highlight.
Probably Hoddle, who may have gone on to do well if not vocalising his odd beliefs and the British press.
The Grockle
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Can't believe there's no vote for Southgate. A world cup Semi, European final, world cup quarter final and gone in to this tournament as favourite.
The Denmark game was pretty abysmal and he seems limited as a coach at times but has to be one of greatest managers IMO
The Denmark game was pretty abysmal and he seems limited as a coach at times but has to be one of greatest managers IMO
Cheeky Monkey
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Who said he could have achieved with us what he did at Forest. If Smith had scored and Clough had stayed and got us those European cups...
Silverhatch
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Sir Alf, Sir Bobby & El Tel.
Obviously Ramsey as he's the only one who won something. Kudos to Robson for reaching a semi-final on foreign soil. But for penalties, a good chance we'd have won that tournament. Venables' team was exciting at Euro '96, rode their luck against Spain but ultimately didn't get the rub of the green. Hoddle was maybe the most modern coach for his time, but derailed by a combination of the media and his own slightly offbeat persona. Southgate - for all his in-game flaws - has done easily as good a job as any of the others since Ramsey and deserves great credit for restoring faith to the point where we're now surprised at England being poor. Keegan, Eriksson, Capello and Hodgson proved it's a very difficult challenge.
Pavilionaire
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Terry Venables.
24 matches. The only times we lost was on pens to the Germans, 3-1 to Brazil with a makeshift CB pairing of Colin Cooper and John Scales (!) and a match that was abandoned after 27mins vs Republic of Ireland.
Just 14 goals conceded, and because we got auto-qualification for Euro 096 we didn't play any mug teams in his 2 years either, unless you count an away match vs China in the People's Stadium.
24 matches. The only times we lost was on pens to the Germans, 3-1 to Brazil with a makeshift CB pairing of Colin Cooper and John Scales (!) and a match that was abandoned after 27mins vs Republic of Ireland.
Just 14 goals conceded, and because we got auto-qualification for Euro 096 we didn't play any mug teams in his 2 years either, unless you count an away match vs China in the People's Stadium.
