Good morning,
The Internet is clucking like one great big wet cyber hen. Arry gets a not guilty and withing hours, Fabio get’s a not on your nelly. The bookies have shrunk the price on Arry being the new England manager and Mr Capello is looking for Italian speaking staff to help him count his money.
The FA needs an Englishman to step up to the plate. And frankly the names on the list beyond Norman Stanley Redschnapp’s don’t really stand up. The full SPs are here. Stuart Pearce has said on numerous occasions he doesn’t think it’s his time yet.
If he stays true to this, it’ll be a thoughtful decision which would tee him up very nicely for the England era to follow this cut & shunt period where everyone’s waiting for Frank Lampard to retire and John Terry to officially join the English Defence League.
The solution is staring us all in the face.
Levy & Co. have Arry under a legally binding contract. So THFC call up the FA and offer David Pleat as caretaker England manager until the end of the season. That gives THFC breathing space to negotiate a replacement and Arry gets the job that he feels he was born to do.
The sad thing for Arry is the England job is virtually unrecognisable from the one he grew up respecting and coveting. But we’re all guilty of not realising things we once loved have changed for the worse.
Not sure I buy the idea that it’ll have a galvanising affect on our English contingnent. I’m more of a glass half empty on this occasion. If the players know that Harry is off at the end of the season, players, who, in many cases, have come out and explicitly expressed their commitment and gratitude to him, what will be in their minds now?
At the best it’s complicated things; just as we were all rejoicing that the lack of European football in the second half of the season gives us a clear-headed run at the league, what does this do? How would I feel fighting hard for a manager whose time is limited? Would I want to give him a final hurrah, or would I feel secretly a little betrayed? And if I was Modders, how would I feel about staying to fight for Spurs when the bossman shows a similar intention to ‘further his career’?
These are mental complications that do no good to a squad who, in years gone by, haven’t been known to be the most psychologically stable bunch.
Feeling very nervy now about what this means for us. And I can only rethink caring about England when Terry and the rest of the scumbags are far from the team.
Harry could do both jobs concurrently. No need to attend PL matches to watch new players when matches are televised. Easy.
I know now why Arry always picks the same players wherever he goes – it’s not ‘type of player’ or ‘character in dressing room’ – he’s only learned how to scribble a dozen names so he has to stick with these for his team sheet!
The upside is he’s said he’ll miss the day to day management side of a club job – so in the short term I think a ‘stay with Spurs and be caretaker of England’ will work for him.
We need him to stay till the end of the season at least to maintain stability – we’ll be fecked otherwise. Why does it always rain on me?
After the initial Harry love in every gutter journalist in the country will be delving into the dark recesses of his past to dig up the dirt. It is quite obvious that unless Harry wins every game for England this will not be his last court case.
Is that what you want ‘Arry? ‘Cos that’s what’ll ‘appen!
Spot on, and do you think for a moment that having to get into bed with those rattlesnakes is appealing to Harry-don’t fink so!
Harry out! Jose in!