The Things Daily Mail Sports Journalists Say!
Matt Lawton, Daily Mail, Aug 16 2006:SVEN Goran Eriksson's greatest achievement during his tenure at Soho Square was convincing his employers that coaching the England team was, in fact, akin to rocket science. All very secretive, all very complicated and all very, very confusing...Thankfully, Steve McClaren takes a more simplistic, more intelligent view to the job, and those who should benefit most are the players he has selected for this evening's not-so-friendly game against Greece...At times Eriksson was a nightmare as he played Steven Gerrard as a second striker or Jamie Carragher as a holding midfielder...McClaren said: 'We have to learn from our failure and from our mistakes, and we have to try to get the shackles off and release the players from the fear they've been playing with. We have to win football matches. We have to create a Team England, and we have to develop different systems. 4-5-1, 3-5-2, I can see us using that at some point because we need to be flexible.' As long as the players are familiar with the roles they are given and McClaren keeps it simple, there should not be a problem.
Matt Lawton, Daily Mail, March 26, 2007
Steve Simply Hasn't A Clue
An Englad team fast slipping out of contenton in this European Championship qualifying campaign are being led by a coach quite clearly out of his depth. Steve McClaren will not be sacked after his side delivered another desperately poor performance on Saturday night. But he probably should be...No sudden dmonance of part-time opposition (Andorra) will convince us that these players are responding to mCClaren with anything other than apathy...If anything England have sunk even deeper since McClaren took over...this game against a distinctly ordinary team was one Eriksson woul dhave won with a less than inspiring but effective display.
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posted by Matthew @ 3/26/2007 11:15:00 AM
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