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If Martin O'Neill does join West Ham United in the coming days it will be a welcome return to the Premier League for one of the game's more colourful characters, but such an appointment would beggar the question, what on earth is he is thinking? This is a man, after all, who four years ago was interviewed for the England job, only to lose out to Steve McClaren, presumably because the FA, as they did when overlooking Brian Clough in 1977, feared that they might be dealing with too much of a loose cannon for their tastes. Since then, O'Neill worked wonders with Aston Villa, guiding them to 11th place in his first season (five better than the previous year) and sixth place in his subsequent three, improving his side's points tally year on year and narrowly missing out on Champions League...