Arthur
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Well there's no evidence of that. He was drawn into a meeting about a business proposition, and apparently did it as more as a favour for a friend of his. A couple of pints of wine later and boom, he's on the front pages, and soon after that he's back on the dole.
I'd have liked to have seen what he would've done with England. The football wouldn't have been pretty, but he does have a skill for getting teams organised, whilst getting the most out of limited resources. Everyone wants to play like Spain, but when you don't have the tools at your disposal, you do the best that you can with the tools you have (and some of our players certainly are tools). We'd not have done any worse under BFS.
Totally agree on both points. BFS was royal stitched up and then put on trial by the media. His comments were at worse misguided.
I'd feel a lot more confident going into the world cup with him at the helm over Southgate.
I feel slightly sorry for him that he has lost his job at Everton as if you had sat down at the start of the season and predicted the order of the table most people would have had the top six teams as it turned out in some order and then probably Everton so realistically he's finished one place off that due to Burnley having a corker of a season which no one would have predicted. Given their start its a pretty good achievement.
That said I can understand the Everton fans reasoning for not wanting him moving forward. I got fed up watching the Mark McGhee side because the experience as a whole was rubbish (granted not helped by Withdean) so can understand why Everton fans want more than just good results.
On the radio this morning they suggested with his survival bonus and pay off he likely to walk away with £6m in his bin. I've no idea how true that is but either way I expect him to buy a villa next door his St James Park and call it Goodison.