Feb 27, 2012 -- 6:14PM, Moofer wrote:
it doesnt.... look at Fabio's track record. Where did that get us?
Capello couldn't speak English though!
Feb 27, 2012 -- 6:36PM, sugarfoot wrote:
Please can you explain why Pearce's track record as a manager comes anywhere close to being sufficient for the England job? -----------------------the principle was to educate a manager in the setup to take over when the time was right. within that there isn't the opportunity for Pearce to go out and manage at club level and get a record, so making comparisons is a futile task.the question is whether that plan was flawed and whether the FA should not follow it through. Redknapp maybe the Englishman with the best club record (currently in management that is, so we can ignore Joe Royle, Howard Wilkinson and also without Shteve McClaren), but that kind of record has been shown to be inadequate at International level in the past
Where is the statement from the FA the u21 coach was being groomed for the main job?
Pearce himself has made it very clear he isn't the right man. Last week he said:
"This job, and the profile of his job, is for a very experienced man with a far better CV than I have at this moment in time."
Case closed?
Feb 28, 2012 -- 12:07AM, sugarfoot wrote:
perhaps he should have opened a bank account in its name insteadbtw, who was sitting next to Pearce at the Emirates on Sunday? they were cut to after Arsenal made it 5-2, and as Pearce made some comment to him his body was lurching away from Pearce so violently he almost fell off his seat. I'm not sure those were positive signals. at a guess it looked like embarrassment over a decision that had already been made (assuming he was some FA bod)
That was Steve Wigley SF, his assistant. I'd imaging he was aftertiming his inclusion of Walcott ;-)