Next manager will be English, says Football Association

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So long Capello.............BBC

England boss Fabio Capello's successor will be an Englishman, the Football Association has pledged.
The Italian's contract runs until 2012, although he remains under pressure after England's poor World Cup.
"We are working on the basis that Fabio will be with us until 2012," the FA's Adrian Bevington told BBC 5 live.
"The view beyond that, based on the discussions I've been involved in, is that we should have an English manager after that."
Speaking to 5 live's Sportsweek programme, FA Club England managing director Bevington added: "We enjoyed working with Sven-Goran Eriksson, and we have Fabio Capello in now.

"I think the English team should be managed by an English manager [in the future]."

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Is Allardyce already camping around FA's headquarters?

[Leyton388]

Doesn't make a difference as the mentality of the english players and FA will never change thus we will never win a thing.

Capello has won everything there is in the game so if someone like him cant make England click no one bloody will. The best thing for English football is to start with the FA and have ex players and people who know the game running it.

One of the worst things the FA could have done and did do was close Lilleshall.

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You've got to laugh at the English.

[CJ]

its all the managers fault and its his fault because our manager is foreign

not sure really i think that capello looked a liability at the world cup but not sure why the man is a winner and won everywhere he has been.

saying it has to be english is just knee jerk again. it should be the best man for the job.

[Tatterdemalion]

This is the same dumb FA that wanted a foreign manager to bring in some experience of winning outside of England.

Like has been said - the problem is the FA. Bunch of ****ting amateurs.

[ronanm]

The last English manager was great alright... Talk about getting behind the current manager - pandering to S*n readers as per usual

[Craig_H]

Next manager will be English, says Football Association

Unfortunately for them though, so will all the players.

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Unfortunately for them though, so will all the players.

not necessarily.

[Craig_H]

Stop ruining a perfectly admirable joke, dirty pedant.

[Leyton388]

Arteta for England would be nice!

[Craig_H]

Really?

He's not that amazing.

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Stop ruining a perfectly admirable joke, dirty pedant.

[Mattshark]

Doesn't make a difference as the mentality of the english players and FA will never change thus we will never win a thing.

Capello has won everything there is in the game so if someone like him cant make England click no one bloody will. The best thing for English football is to start with the FA and have ex players and people who know the game running it.

One of the worst things the FA could have done and did do was close Lilleshall.

Nah, Lilleshall was not up to it, until youth coaching standards (which are laughable in the UK) are dramatically improved places like that have no value.

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The English Football Association has confirmed that the next scapegoat to take the blame for the poor performance of a bunch of vastly overrated millionaires linked only by a tenuous geographic anomaly, will definitely be English.

A statement said that although current scapegoat Fabio Capello has a contract until 2012, the FA will be looking for an Englishman to take the blame for everything from that point onwards.

FA Club England managing director Adrian Bevington said, “We feel it is right for the development of blame association in this country that our next scapegoat is an Englishman.”

“Foreign scapegoats have done a lot for our game, bringing over their continental excuses and ability to conveniently not understand difficult questions, but it is time we returned to our roots.”

“We have listened to the fans, and our next embarrassing World Cup capitulation will be blamed on someone born on these shores.

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Fans have reacted positively to the news, with many suggesting that an English scapegoat should have been employed after Sven Goran Erickson proffered his final excuse.

One told us, “The English game has developed some of the best scapegoats in the game, but they are often overlooked because the FA always perceived that foreign scapegoats were better at taking the blame.”

“Having an excellent track record of blame absorption in Italy or Spain doesn’t prepare you for being the England scapegoat, where you are expected to offer creative excuses on an almost monthly basis.”

“There is plenty of domestic talent available. Look at people like Phil Brown and Gary Megson, good English scapegoats with a fantastic record of being blamed for the poor performance of rubbish players. Why not give one of them a chance?”