http://soccerlens.com/mourinho-turns-down-england-as-capello-waits-his-turn/4663/ Soccerlens - Football News You Can Trust Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:26:47 -0800 http://soccerlens.com/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://soccerlens.com/mourinho-turns-down-england-as-capello-waits-his-turn/4663/comment-page-1/#comment-71594 Svenalike.co.uk Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:23:13 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/mourinho-turns-down-england-as-capello-waits-his-turn/4663/#comment-71594 Any European national will find it difficult to adapt to the unreasonable demands of the British press and some football pundits. Unless a foreign coach/manager wins EVERY game and lives like a monk, the press will probably treat them the same way they rewarded Sven for his audicity in being a batchelor and losing 5 competetive matches during his tenure? TheFA have resorted to splashing the cash with their rumoured pay offer of £6,000,000 a year, but will even this attract any one but a chancer or money grabber to accept "the poisoned chalice" that football's top job has so frequently been called? Maybe if Capello does accept the challenge, he would be well advised not to learn English too quickly as that way he won't be aware of the xenophobia that's sure to head his way. I don't subscribe to the idea that we haven't the calibre of players to go the distance, but any England manager and squad have an even tougher job when they are constantly distracted by a media who seems to have such an unpatriotic "death wish" for our international soccer prospects. Maybe if Sven had been better treated after his remarkable turn around of England's soccer fortunes (in spite of being "robbed" of the final trophies), he would have continued to guide our team to qualify for Euro 2008 (as he was contracted to do) and the job of replacing him would not now be so hard to fill? Any European national will find it difficult to adapt to the unreasonable demands of the British press and some football pundits.
Unless a foreign coach/manager wins EVERY game and lives like a monk, the press will probably treat them the same way they rewarded Sven for his audicity in being a batchelor and losing 5 competetive matches during his tenure?
TheFA have resorted to splashing the cash with their rumoured pay offer of £6,000,000 a year, but will even this attract any one but a chancer or money grabber to accept “the poisoned chalice” that football’s top job has so frequently been called?
Maybe if Capello does accept the challenge, he would be well advised not to learn English too quickly as that way he won’t be aware of the xenophobia that’s sure to head his way.
I don’t subscribe to the idea that we haven’t the calibre of players to go the distance, but any England manager and squad have an even tougher job when they are constantly distracted by a media who seems to have such an unpatriotic “death wish” for our international soccer prospects.
Maybe if Sven had been better treated after his remarkable turn around of England’s soccer fortunes (in spite of being “robbed” of the final trophies), he would have continued to guide our team to qualify for Euro 2008 (as he was contracted to do) and the job of replacing him would not now be so hard to fill?

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