English FA recruit Rugby World Cup failure to consult on Euro 2016… failure.
Talking shops, touching base and think-ins with rugby coaches, cycling gurus and former fish finger company chief executives. Maybe Roy Hodgson was right to get the f**k out of this circus when he did.
Martin Glenn, England FA chief executive, got the search for Hodgson’s replacement off to a bad start when he told grumpy hacks he was ‘not a football man’.
England U21 coach Gareth Southgate was lined up as caretaker boss of the senior side, according to reports, until he ruled himself out 24 hours later. Fun while it lasted.
Couldn't organise a brewery in a… piss-up https://t.co/FMt7F4O86R
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) June 30, 2016
Since then, Glenn, Dan Ashworth and David Gill – the FA’s three wise men – have widened their search, for consultants.
Glenn, who is a former Birds Eye Iglo chief executive, has called up David Brailsford [Team Sky general manager] and Stuart Lancaster [ex-England rugby coach] to advise them on how to bring a culture of winning to English football.
So the panel choosing the next England manager is a guy who doesn't know football, a cycling coach, a rugby coach and a table tennis player?
— David Preece (@davidpreece12) July 1, 2016
Wile Brailsford’s star is still on the rise – he has brought Olympic golds to Great Britain and Tour de France success to Team Sky – Lancaster is seen by many in rugby as a busted flush.
Lancaster had an exit from his England role that was just as ignominious as Hodgson’s. Having led the country to successive second places finishes in the Six Nations, his England side became the first ever host country to be knocked out of a World Cup at the pool stages.
We can’t wait for their suggestions.
