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da betano casino: Liverpool’s Jamie Carragher has stated that England’s next manager should be home-grown, and that bringing in a foreign coach is ‘cheating’.
The defender, who never enjoyed the run of the green on the international stage despite excellent club performances, feels the appointment of Fabio Capello after Steve McClaren’s unsuccessful era was a cop-out by the FA.
“If your manager’s not good enough, that’s your country’s fault,” he told talkSPORT.
“Get a better manager. Do the coaching qualification better. I think it is a form of cheating and, to be honest, it’s a little bit embarrassing.
“I think Capello’s come into the job with all that he’d done at AC Milan and what he’d done at Real Madrid, and he’s got an aura about him. Steve McClaren didn’t have any of that. And even if it didn’t go right with him, you can’t say ‘Oh, it’s all right, we’ll get a foreign manager now’. It’s unfortunate, but you have to go with the next best thing.
“I can’t say the World Cup went great under Fabio because it didn’t, but getting a foreign manager is like saying ‘Well, our keeper’s not good enough so we’re going to get Buffon from Italy’ or whoever it may be,” he concluded.
Speculation is rife in the press over who the next man in charge of The Three Lions will be, despite the fact that Capello still has a year left of his deal with the nation.
By Gareth McKnight
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