World Cup Thomas Tuchel Named England Manager

[holdsteady]

You’re missing the group, like me, who do care who manages the national team ,who can still be fiercely patriotic, but just don’t get the level of anger that’s led to the disrespect shown towards a foreign manager, some of which has been plain embarrassing. I cant wait for him to prove the doubters wrong.

Disrespect? Hardly been an outcry has there? People pointing out that the manager of England football team should be English is not really disrespectful.

Seen far more hipsters trying to laugh at the gammons who care about that, even if they are blind to the fact that posting something like “people who care about what passport someone holds are out of touch with international football” is completely missing the point of international football.

 

[holdsteady]

I don't really disagree, but since we've already had two foreign managers I'm not sure there's any point getting too het up about it now. I guess the difference is we didn't have social media in the same way when Sven and Capello were here.

If you make a mistake you don’t have to make that mistake again?

 

[werthersoriginal]

If you make a mistake you don’t have to make that mistake again?

I can't actually remember that much of a reaction when we hired Sven and Capello - but the internet was very different. I'd support a change of the rules to make managers have to qualify in the same way as players do, but we are where we are, as they say.

 

[Eaststanding]

Disrespect? Hardly been an outcry has there? People pointing out that the manager of England football team should be English is not really disrespectful.

Seen far more hipsters trying to laugh at the gammons who care about that, even if they are blind to the fact that posting something like “people who care about what passport someone holds are out of touch with international football” is completely missing the point of international football.

Read again, I didn’t say there was an outcry.
The Daily Mail article was representative of the views of many, but not all of those who object to his appointment, so no, not a public outcry but an embarrassing and disrespectful article by a national newspaper.

 

[holdsteady]

I can't actually remember that much of a reaction when we hired Sven and Capello - but the internet was very different. I'd support a change of the rules to make managers have to qualify in the same way as players do, but we are where we are, as they say.

I remember a bit of one over Sven, but he won everyone by being a lovable gentleman playboy, Cappello got a lot of praise if I remember rightly because of his CV but unfortunately that glossed over the fact that he didn’t speak English well enough so was a bit of a disaster, the England football manager should definitely have a decent command of the language, plus he was boring both on and off the pitch.

I still don’t think there has been that much of a fuss but if we start to struggle then that will change.