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They said club was more important than country to them. With that mindset it was impossible to succeed.
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Regarding the ability of the players you mention, my take on this for some time now is that we produce players who can do a job that is drilled into them at club level, but don’t have the nous to work in unfamiliar circumstances in the limited time available to them in the national team setting. That lack of flexible football intelligence screams out every time we see England in a major finals. That’s the very best that we produce. Below them is a cadre if players who are not remotely as good as we big them up to be.
If you want an example of how the dominance of the PL has skewed priorities over the years, think about how embittered Clough was never to get the chance to manage England. He was the pre-eminent club manager of his era. But he would have dropped any club he was at to manage England. Just as Don Revie had left the most successful club in England to take on the national job. Can you imagine a top class English manager (I know - it's a stretch of imagination) leaving Chelsea or Man Utd to take on the England job today?
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on November 29, 2017, 04:01:50 pmIf you want an example of how the dominance of the PL has skewed priorities over the years, think about how embittered Clough was never to get the chance to manage England. He was the pre-eminent club manager of his era. But he would have dropped any club he was at to manage England. Just as Don Revie had left the most successful club in England to take on the national job. Can you imagine a top class English manager (I know - it's a stretch of imagination) leaving Chelsea or Man Utd to take on the England job today?I make it only one permanent English manager at any of the big 4 English clubs in the last 20 years (Roy Evans at Liverpool). More than a stretch that example. Maybe its a bigger indication of the development the premiership has had on producing top class English coaching, not players.
He's the best? I'd put Allardyce above him and potentially Dyche and Howe.