English Managers Whinging again.

After reading this interview with Alan Curbishley, it really had me annoyed. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sick of English managers moaning about an English manager not being given a chance with the national team. Did the F.A. not just do that? Steve McClaren is English the last time I checked, and he made a laughing stock out of the national team. What about, Graham Taylor, Glenn Hoddle, Terry Venables? They didn't exactly perform miracles when they had there stints in charge. In fact, the only decent manager that England have had recently is, wait for it, of course, a foreigner.

• Sven qualified for 3 major tournaments as top of each qualification group and in those tournaments he got to the quarter finals each time. They were quite unlucky in all of them too, only going out to Brazil in 2002 via a freak/genius goal (you decide) from Ronaldinho, and in 2004 and 2006 they were knocked out on penalties by Portugal.

• Sven achieved the highest point percentage in Major Tournament Matches of all time for an England manager

• He managed to reach the quarter final in three consecutive tournaments, no other European country achieved this during this period
  

• He improved England's FIFA World ranking from 17th place (Jan 2001) to 5th place (July 2006).

And all that from a foreign manager? Why on earth, with precedents like that, are people moaning about a foreign appointment? Alan Curbishley is worried that there will never be another English manager, maybe that's because he's worried that Capello is actually going to win a trophy as English manager and make the public realise that the English managers of the national team in recent times have been below standard. Why should the F.A. give a job that requires a world class manager to a manager with only domestic credentials? Redknapp, Curbishley, Allardyce, has anybody from Spain or Italy or Brazil heard of these people?

Curbs will argue that the reason they can't appoint an Englishman is because there's no Englishman managing a really top team in England? Well, that's not the F.A's fault Alan. I think he needs to realise that there's a reason the top teams don't appoint English managers, and it's the same reason that the F.A. has decided to do likewise.