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Roy Hodgson & the Undermining Ritual: how the Press cover their backs for inevitable failure.

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Hence The Sun’s headline. Getting a quick does of undermining in there early so Roy/Woy doesn’t get too ahead of himself, promoting themselves as the Almighty declarer of worthiness upon the latest victim, by essentially casting Roy as “not fit for the job” by the fact he has a speech impediment. “Look everyone, who have the FA got for us now to manage the England team? A man with a speech impediment? Ha-ha! That’s never going to work!” And this process happens every time.

Fabio Capello? Why this man has never managed an international team before. Wow, his bottom jaw is awfully defined. Can he ever speak English? What do you mean I can’t text Wayne Bridge’s wife during the team talk? How dare he expect me to call him “Sir”? Doesn’t he know who I am One of the many things pelted in Fabio’s direction upon getting the job, despite his reputation as arguably one of the greatest European managers of all time coming into the job, and everyone’s favourite for the role. Yet a series of constant underminings by the press and the moronic representatives of the England shirt meant that Fabio by the time he left was this old geezer with dinosaur tactics in which England didn’t win because they were too “bored” and didn’t like not being able to have fun and be distracted.

Sven Goran Eriksson? WHAT? HE’S NOT ENGLISH? WHAT? INGERLAND! INGERLAND! That was about the gist of it upon Sven’s call to become the first foreign manager of the England team. And although he had a relatively successful reign, the fact that he had personal problems with his wife and didn’t have the English discipline to keep them in line at the World Cup in 2006 and let them get distracted too much (ironic considering Fabio’s experience) means that he most certainly was not appropriate for the job. Get me a new manager!

I could list many more, but the experience of the foreign managers exemplifies this issue the most. And now Roy gets the press treatment. After all the build up and defiance that we were going to get an English coach to bring us success because them foreigners don’t know what us English are about because we are English and we know a lot better than them and they don’t have the same passion as us. Things have already started coming out about how he didn’t do very well at Liverpool, and how people find his training boring (because of cause all of our moronic team of primadonnas have the attention span of a twig, hence the reoccurring problem of boredom.)

And guess what would have happened if Harry had got in charge? What? Employing a bloke who can’t even write and was just in court for fraud? Spurs haven’t played very well recently – he must be an awful manager, everyone knows he doesn’t know anything about tactics!

Its like a production line: hire, doubt, failure, lambast, sack. And like a spoilt child, we always get a new one. And is it ever good enough? No. No it’s not.

@sb_crocker

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