Steve McLaren RIP

Bold decision = decision that guy agrees with

McClaren axed after Euro exit

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article492787.ece

On 22 May 2007 it was announced at a press conference that Bryan Robson and Brian Kidd would be the new management team at Sheffield United.[47] His first match in charge was a home match against Colchester United on 11 August in a 2-2 draw.[48] His first win was three days later in a 3-1 win against Chesterfield in the Carling Cup.[49] United subsequently collected nine points in their first 10 league matches, leaving the Blades in 20th place in the Championship and, it prompted Robson to comment about the situation.[50]

Take him, please.

DUURR:

Sky sources understand that England manager Steve McClaren has been sacked after England's failure to qualify for the Euro 2008 competition.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1293866,00.html

http://www.plu.edu/~arnoldwp/img/sacrificial-stone.gif

You know when you have a dying grandparent, and you know that if you're phoning up your dad to ask how she is, that must mean they're still alive as he'd have called you otherwise? That's Steve McLaren, that is.

As for furruners, how many ingerland players play abroad and learn different styles, different approaches? None. Croatia's players come from Oz, Germany and Croatia, and play across Europe. They're diverse. England's players are culutrally monocultural as hell, and it's a bobbins monoculture at that.

Don't most of that team play in Croatia though?

Only one regular in the Croatian national team (Luka Modric) actually plays in Croatia.

"We're not going to be knocked out by stars of our very own Premier League are we?"

Yes Motty, you are.

and he's gone

Ta ta SCS.

Birmingham fans be bricking it.

Bruce didn't turn up at Wigan yesterday, did he? Was he hedging bets for the national job?

Are people refusing to spell McClaren's name right on purpose? Such is their contempt for the unfortunate fellow?

McCunt.

"We're not going to be knocked out by stars of our very own Premier League are we?"

Who? Nico Krancjar?

and Eduardo and Corluka

Yes those three Premiership players put England out of Euro 2008

Yes, they did, as did their team mates.

i guess he'll just go back to motor racing with his old friend John Player.

"We're not going to be knocked out by stars of our very own Premier League are we?"

Scott Carson?

McClaren leaves his post as statistically the worst England manager of all time, having lost five of his 18 matches in charge. Yet, with more than two years left of his contract, he will be entitled to £2.5m in compensation.

From the Guardian Unlimited piece about his sacking. Worst. England. Manager. Ever.

I'm desperately trying to think of a worse coach of a major international football team in living memory. Cesare Maldini? Erich Ribbeck?

Yes, they did, as did their team mates.

Despite team mates being obv. not good enough to play in Premiership

Is he more incompetent than the bloke who lost those computer discs?

Alastair Darling for England job

POLL !

(xp)

They come over here, steal our newspapers, humiliate our football team...

.. play in the premiership...

The front page of the Sun was so despondent, like they couldn't even be bothered to castigate or mock him.

mcclaren's problem was that his ENGLAND tactics didn't include enough MADDIE coverage, and selcting CARSON ahead of THE PEOPLE'S PRINCESS was never going to get the FANS on his side.

available jobs for mediocre managers- birmingham, ireland, england.

available (relaistic) pool of talent- houllier, souness, jewell, mcclaren, venables.

Strachan for birmingham, ireland, england

I was just about to say there was one English manager who still had a chance of managing a team at Euro 2008 but, having checked last night's results, seems he's out too

No chance, the wee man's half a season from being a legendary 3-in-a-row winner.

McLeish for Brum might be a goer.

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I'm desperately trying to think of a worse coach of a major international football team in living memory.

Tommy Burns answers Dom:

http://images.scotsman.com/2004/11/02/0211dontb.jpg

Not sure if Scotland have counted as a major international football team for a long time

Be fair, I said "living memory", and there are some people still alive from the 1890s

Hey there, 1900s at least

And the last time England could credibly have been called a major international football team was...?

Oh sorry, I see you answered the question before I asked it.

And the last time England could credibly have been called a major international football team was...?

^^^this is a good question. 1990?

Maybe '96 tbh. Reaching semis makes you a major team.

mcclaren is a rolemodel for anybody who has ambition. apply for the top job, you might well get it through luck, and then you can even be shit at it and then end up set for life with £2.5million.

you can't write fairy tales more exhilarating than this!

"That's a pretty lousy message"
"Hey, I'm a pretty lousy manager"

Depends you mean by major surely. Holland's recent record aint' too clever - are they a major international football team?

And the last time England could credibly have been called a major international football team was...?

They still are a major international team, but not as much as Portugal, Croatia, teams like that

Really though, I guess it's too much to hope for that the FA might have the nuts to stop this sacking-compensation nonsense next time round and just say 'here is a plum job which we will continue to pay you a handsome wage for doing and if you don't like it, don't take it'?

You see this watch? You see this watch? That watch costs more than your car. I made 970,000 quid last year, how much ...

xpost this is analagous with the Spurs / big clubs thing again kinda isn't it