FA approach hodgson westbrom give permission to talk!!

[Mellotron]

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Yep. TERRIBLE side.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

But you've put Venables in the wrong camp. He was a superb technical, tactical manager, exactly in the Hodgson mould. Get the team properly organised defensively so that they have the freedom to attack in force with width.

I'm sure every England manager has a great plan to defend well and attack with class. Its the passionate ones that can get the team to put it into practice on the biggest stage.

 

[Seagull58]

I'll never forget heading to the pub with my mates that sunny Saturday afternoon after we dicked the Dutch 4-1, and seeing crowds of people flooding out of every house doing exactly the same. The atmosphere in Nottingham that day was electric and I'm sure repeated across the country. Whilst accepting many of the stats thrown at me on this thread I make no apology for seeing Redknapp as the new Venables incarnate.

Redknapp is nothing like Venables. He hasn't demonstrated the tactical expertise of Venables and Spurs look like they don't know how to defend.

 

[W.C.]

poor bloke, if he gets it I bet he get's destroyed by the media/fans

 

[Gritt23]

I'm sure every England manager has a great plan to defend well and attack with class. Its the passionate ones that can get the team to put it into practice on the biggest stage.

Kevin Keegan?

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Kevin Keegan?

It worked for him at club level, he got nervous at international level and tried to be a pragmatic manager, putting Southgate into midfield to defend 1-0 leads for example. This wasn't his strongpoint and it failed.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Redknapp is nothing like Venables. He hasn't demonstrated the tactical expertise of Venables and Spurs look like they don't know how to defend.

They are 4th in the effing premier league. Sake

 

[Silent Bob]

Redknapp is nothing like Venables. He hasn't demonstrated the tactical expertise of Venables and Spurs look like they don't know how to defend.

He's a cockney wide boy, and of course Passionate. What more do you need.

 

[Nathan]

They are 4th in the effing premier league. Sake

Pardew is 5th. Which manager has done better?

Not that i want Pardew for england.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Pardew is 5th. Which manager has done better?

Not that i want Pardew for england.

Redknapp. 4th is higher than 5th

 

[Falkor]

I hope ya guys got on f***ing gutted I didn't

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Its the passionate ones that can get the team to put it into practice on the biggest stage.

That sort of thinking gets Stuart Pearce or Terry Butcher a job. I'd rather have someone with some football knowledge than someone who can stand on the touchline thumping their chest - that means nothing to me.

 

[SK1NT]

Redknapp. 4th is higher than 5th

As a spurs fan i think hodgson was the correct choice. Redknapp has a lot of funds and has probably the best team on paper in the prem behind city and yet i feel relieved everytime we win 3 points.

As mentioned in a previous post arrys always after that next big foreign signing. He can't do that for England. Hodgson can work well with limited quality.

Ok the media wont have their darling... but f*** em

My fear is that the media will make the public turn on hodgson but my main fear is the terry, cole, lampard (uncle arry) group that seems to run any dressing room wont warm to hodgson...

 

[Gritt23]

It worked for him at club level, he got nervous at international level and tried to be a pragmatic manager, putting Southgate into midfield to defend 1-0 leads for example. This wasn't his strongpoint and it failed.

Exactly. So it is not automatically "the passionate ones than can get the team to put it into practice on the biggest stage."

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

That sort of thinking gets Stuart Pearce or Terry Butcher a job. I'd rather have someone with some football knowledge than someone who can stand on the touchline thumping their chest - that means nothing to me.

Its that sort of thinking that gets everyone happy with a quarter-final appearance

 

[Husty]

Redknapp. 4th is higher than 5th

Absolutely clueless

 

[Uncle Buck]

I don't know about you, but I'd like to win a world cup or a euros, not just be comfortably average

Well if he can match or better our best World Cup on foreign soil that would be a good starting point.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Absolutely clueless

Blimey everyone's got it in for me today just because I like Redknapp. I was asked a simple question and I gave a simple answer. Which is factually correct I should point out.

 

[Falkor]

Issue for me with twitchy is every club he touches seems to go skint. He seems to need to spend alot of money

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Well if he can match or better our best World Cup on foreign soil that would be a good starting point.

Could any manager survive a repeat of Euro '88 these days? As I've said all along I don't think Roy will be a disaster. There is always that niggling 'what-if' about England though. What if they'd have given it to Clough ? What-if they'd given Venables the chance to take England to a World Cup? What-if Hoddle had just shut the f*** up about disabled people?