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Harry Redknapp is 'the only viable choice' for England
10:26am Thursday 9th February 2012 in Sport
Harry Redknapp in his Saints days
Whether you like it or not, Harry Redknapp is the only viable choice to take over from Fabio Capello as England boss.
The clamour from the country is clear – they want an Englishman to take on the ‘impossible job’.
After Capello and Sven Goran Eriksson both proved expensive failures, it’s perfectly understandable and the FA are highly unlikely to buck public opinion.
And if you’re going English, Redknapp’s is the only name on the menu.
Whether he would leave Tottenham is a question only he can answer, but whether he will be offered the job surely is not up for debate.
There is a dearth of English managers doing well at Premier League level, and very few can boast any kind of sustained success.
Former Saints manager, and one time England assistant, Lawrie McMenenmy, has always insisted that the England boss should be someone who has had a long club career with success over a number of years.
How many English managers who remain in the top levels of the game can you point to with that?
Redknapp does have popular support throughout the country and, however he does it, is adored by players.
With Euro 2012 just around the corner the FA don’t have long to make up their minds.
They need somebody who can slot in quickly, who knows the players and the background and who can unite the country behind them and the team.
Step forward Harry.
• For more opinion and reaction don’t miss Lawrie McMenemy’s exclusive column in Saturday’s Daily Echo and Adam Rant in this weekend’s Pink.
Comments(26)
Smart Bomb
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11:21am Thu 9 Feb 12
Hobson82
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12:00pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Smart Bomb wrote:Totally agree with Smart Bomb. The FA keep appointing managers with experience and attractive CV's but what have the done for England?!? Appoint someone who has played for England and understands the pressures the players go through in a major tournament. Alan Shearer, Stuart Pearce, Terry Butcher, David Platt, Gareth Southgate, Bryan Robson.... Can't think of anyone else.
Utter nonsense. One major Trophy in 30 years is not good enough. You may as well go for an unproven youngster with potential - a Beckham, if you like.
Tirau Dan
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12:42pm Thu 9 Feb 12
England needs a clean fresh start.. whole squad gone, clean slate, new manager and coaching staff. I'd suggest most managers of non league and above could pick a new squad and do better than they have in the last ten years.
Seedhouse the Unrepentant
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1:25pm Thu 9 Feb 12
I suppose it comes down to whether one objects to the England job being given to a lying, cheating, thieving crook.
Saint.
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1:38pm Thu 9 Feb 12
All this talk of getting an English manager as this would work best is utter rubbish. Like turnip head, Hoddle, wanna be Venables, big time charlie McClaren!
Just get the best manager for the job, and that for me is Huddink, and he wants it! What you waiting for England?
As for the FA they have no balls! What ever the wrongs/rights about JT. He is innocent till proven guilty! I am not a fan of JT, but what wrong with the Capello having a different view to the FA. He must know and talked to JT in depth and believe in his stance on the guy. It comes down to the FA being spineless and using this as a tool to remove Capello!
You could not make this up! No less than two days redcrap was too corrupt to be an England manager, now he cleared there as big push for him. Yet the FA open the door for a good manager like Capello to go, and undermine him on a legal accusation now! Yet if later in the summer JT is cleared like redcrap. Well then some people will have egg on their faces to say the least, and Capello would be vindicated but gone!
Strasbourg Saint
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1:48pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Saint. wrote:Yep! Tend to agree.
Redcrapp would be last person I would appoint!
All this talk of getting an English manager as this would work best is utter rubbish. Like turnip head, Hoddle, wanna be Venables, big time charlie McClaren!
Just get the best manager for the job, and that for me is Huddink, and he wants it! What you waiting for England?
As for the FA they have no balls! What ever the wrongs/rights about JT. He is innocent till proven guilty! I am not a fan of JT, but what wrong with the Capello having a different view to the FA. He must know and talked to JT in depth and believe in his stance on the guy. It comes down to the FA being spineless and using this as a tool to remove Capello!
You could not make this up! No less than two days redcrap was too corrupt to be an England manager, now he cleared there as big push for him. Yet the FA open the door for a good manager like Capello to go, and undermine him on a legal accusation now! Yet if later in the summer JT is cleared like redcrap. Well then some people will have egg on their faces to say the least, and Capello would be vindicated but gone!
I really don't like JT, but he should have lost the captaincy only if proved guilty or if he isn't the right/best man for the job. If Capello felt he was the right choice, the FA should have accepted that.
As for 'onest 'Arry, give him the job! Then (and it would be totally against the grain) I could support France in June and be done with it.
redsnapper
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2:02pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Tirau Dan wrote:Agree changes are needed,
Appoint someone with a Monaco account in his dog's name and it will go around the world as a laughing stock.... not that English International football isn't already. No scandals no womanisers or boozers bullies or tax dunces.
England needs a clean fresh start.. whole squad gone, clean slate, new manager and coaching staff. I'd suggest most managers of non league and above could pick a new squad and do better than they have in the last ten years.
Ingerlund supporters are the lost souls of football, they rarely have any serious club affiliations, they watch garbage games with teams full of has beens.
The whole set up is a joke and until there is a complete step change in rules governing the number of foreign players per team and a whole sale clearout of the blazers at FA, nothing will change.
People like Harry Sven and Fabio will just turn up grab the money and run.
bigfella777
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2:05pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Totton Boy
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2:27pm Thu 9 Feb 12
For me Sir Alec Ferguson is the obvious choice. In every aspect qualified apart from birthplace, but if Redknapp is the best England can offer at the moment then we have to look further.
Shoong
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3:45pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Here's the fact the majority miss - Redknapp's trophy record - 1 FA Cup vs Cardiff city.
What kind of record is that?
Sally Hamilton Original
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4:02pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Shoong wrote:Completely agree. I am not going to watch or support our team while this absolute idiot is in charge (and I hope to god he is not). I would rather mourinho to be honest. Can you imagine the rest of the world laughing their heads off at us when he picks a load of has beens and then in the list match interview try and work out what camera he is looking in to. Actually appoint him. He will be gone within a year and that will be that.
The end of supporting England for me.
Here's the fact the majority miss - Redknapp's trophy record - 1 FA Cup vs Cardiff city.
What kind of record is that?
legh_langston
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6:49pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Gossie.
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7:03pm Thu 9 Feb 12
If Scumbag Twitchy gets it then I will support France from now on, no way will I ever watch a team lead by that Skate ba5tard
Strasbourg Saint
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7:18pm Thu 9 Feb 12
Chris1991
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7:22pm Thu 9 Feb 12
No bungs, no cut of the transfers etc. Nothing in it for him.
Glory means nothing to him, he's just interested in the pay packet.
Red n White
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8:12pm Thu 9 Feb 12
batesieboy
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3:26am Fri 10 Feb 12
Ellwood
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6:29am Fri 10 Feb 12
2:27pm Thu 9 Feb 12
I for one will take no further interest in the national team if that "criminal" is appointed.
For me Sir Alec Ferguson is the obvious choice. In every aspect qualified apart from birthplace, but if Redknapp is the best England can offer at the moment then we have to look further.
............ nail on head there Totton Boy.
Redknapp will prove to be a disastrous choice ...from the get go.
legh_langston .......... I like your thinking......Beckha
m would be a great motivator.
george chivers
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10:30am Fri 10 Feb 12
I would rather go with an experienced dodgy Englishman who is currently achieving something in the P.L. than another foreigner or somebody who doesn't have a current track record.
My other choices would be Martin O'Neil
followed by David Moyes.
TEBOURBA
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12:24pm Fri 10 Feb 12
The only viable choice is Martin O'Neil a man of high principle and superb management ability, who learned his craft from the best manager England never had Brian Clough!
Avery T Decanary
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1:31pm Fri 10 Feb 12
Tactically he is at best questionable. He was a disaster at Saints and left Pompey in the lurch twice.
His age at 64 is not a recipe for a long term future as England's No 1. We need someone with a good knowledge of English football, a proven winner and who can handle the fickle national media. And that has to be Jose Mourinho.
Meanwhile for the Euros, I give Stuart Pearce and Terry Venables the baton until Jose is ready.
Harry Redknapp - your having a laugh.
freemantlegirl2
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7:33pm Fri 10 Feb 12
Avery T Decanary wrote:great post!! says it all really.
I have to keep pinching myself when I keep hearing that Harry Redknapp is the man for England. Why? Because he is English. Blimey, how short-sighted is that. What has he won in 30 years of management. One FA Cup, and he led Pompey to the brink of financial catastrophe to do it.
Tactically he is at best questionable. He was a disaster at Saints and left Pompey in the lurch twice.
His age at 64 is not a recipe for a long term future as England's No 1. We need someone with a good knowledge of English football, a proven winner and who can handle the fickle national media. And that has to be Jose Mourinho.
Meanwhile for the Euros, I give Stuart Pearce and Terry Venables the baton until Jose is ready.
Harry Redknapp - your having a laugh.
what has he won exactly? I agree, Jose is a far more sensible choice..! and so what if he's not english, the team are!
pyan
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12:34pm Sat 11 Feb 12
7 Serie A championships
4 Supercoppa Italiana wins
2 La Liga championships
1 Champions League winner
1 European Super Cup winner
and the most successful England manager ever (fact!)
(P 42, W 28, D 8, L 6)
Redknapp's record:
1 Intertoto Cup
1 FA Cup winners
1 Johnstone Paint Trophy (FL cup)
1 Division 1 champions
1 Division 3 champions
But being English, of course, he's by far the better choice...
Mourinho or Hiddink for me, assuming they're interested in the poisoned cup.
Shoong
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3:39pm Sun 12 Feb 12
pyan wrote:Yep, the Special One Or Hiddink for me also.
Capello's record:
7 Serie A championships
4 Supercoppa Italiana wins
2 La Liga championships
1 Champions League winner
1 European Super Cup winner
and the most successful England manager ever (fact!)
(P 42, W 28, D 8, L 6)
Redknapp's record:
1 Intertoto Cup
1 FA Cup winners
1 Johnstone Paint Trophy (FL cup)
1 Division 1 champions
1 Division 3 champions
But being English, of course, he's by far the better choice...
Mourinho or Hiddink for me, assuming they're interested in the poisoned cup.
rocketone
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4:37pm Sun 12 Feb 12
BUT
What would really please me would be for Harry to stand up at a press conference and announce he doesn't want the job because of the media and the way they will kill him after 1 game!
Then see how the papers report that !
click2find
Mac the North says...
11:20am Thu 9 Feb 12