foolhandy
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Post by foolhandy on Oct 15, 2024 19:49:10 GMT
My only issue with Tuchel is that when I had a BT Sport subscription I used to actively avoid Chelsea games because the football was so dire. He's a winner though.
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simon
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Post by simon on Oct 15, 2024 21:42:11 GMT
My only issue with Tuchel is that when I had a BT Sport subscription I used to actively avoid Chelsea games because the football was so dire. He's a winner though. I don’t think the Chelsea fans were bothered if the football was dire when he tactically outwitted Pep to win the champions league. I think England are on the cusp of winning something. Tuchel could well be the man to get them over the line. |
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Post by Andrewlang on Oct 15, 2024 21:54:18 GMT
I'm fine with Tuchel but I do think international football should be about representing the country you're from. The whole point of it is that it's the best of the best and I feel like it should be extended to coaching staff...
...it's not though so fine, whatever, not sure there's an English manager that'd really get my vote tbf. I'm just happy it's not Klopp or Guardiola.
Andrew
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zx10racer22
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Post by zx10racer22 on Oct 15, 2024 22:03:22 GMT
To be honest, I'm pretty pleased with this.
It's all well and good having the principle that the coach of the England team should be English, but there is only one English manager available who has won a relevant trophy, and he just failed his audition.
Aside from Carsley, I like Eddie Howe and I appreciate Graham Potter was a candidate, but between them they've won the English second tier, Swedish cup and Swedish 2nd and 3rd tiers. Wonderful achievements with their respective clubs but not a comparison to Tuchel.
When people were talking about Pep and Klopp, I almost laughed because I'm surprised people saw them as genuine candidates.
If you can't get a Pep, Klopp or Ancelotti, Tuchel is as good as anyone else on paper tbh.
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Post by Funky Monk on Oct 15, 2024 22:12:45 GMT
When it comes down to Graham Potter or...Gary O'Neil?!
Yeah.
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nutsaboutamber
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Post by nutsaboutamber on Oct 16, 2024 1:48:51 GMT
My only issue with Tuchel is that when I had a BT Sport subscription I used to actively avoid Chelsea games because the football was so dire. He's a winner though. I don’t think the Chelsea fans were bothered if the football was dire when he tactically outwitted Pep to win the champions league. I think England are on the cusp of winning something. Tuchel could well be the man to get them over the line. And you can be certain the rest of the world wouldn't hear about that. |
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Post by El Goodo on Oct 16, 2024 8:43:04 GMT
Seems a bit odd that Carsley is in charge for the remaining Nations League games. Appreciate that was what was agreed beforehand but the next match is a month away, not next week or whatever.
Tuchel not officially in post until January seems strange but maybe there was something agreed in his exit from Bayern I guess.
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foolhandy
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Favourite CUFC player: Spriggs. Dublin. Pitt. Lennett.
Favourite CUFC match: vs Leicester C (H) 1982. Without that...?
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Post by foolhandy on Oct 16, 2024 9:28:08 GMT
Presumably they'll be a lot of gardening leave taking place at St. George's Park before January 1st.
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Post by Delbert Grady on Oct 16, 2024 9:44:26 GMT
Ah, the FA has appointed a German chap to steer our national team.
I do find the critiques regarding his nationality rather odd. Have these critics been living under a rock for the past three decades? Football in this country has long since bartered away its essence. Our 'big' clubs are either state-owned or in the hands of foreign magnates, and the players? It's the United Nations on most pitches in the PL. The managerial landscape is no different. Why, then, should the England manager's role be an exception?
The stark reality is that we’ve allowed our footballing soul to be auctioned off, much like our housing and industry. After 30 years of this, one can hardly expect a plethora of capable English managers to emerge.
On a brighter note, I suspect Tuchel may just bring home some silverware. He possesses that elusive 'nasty' edge we've sorely missed for far too long.
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Post by saltyvinegar on Oct 16, 2024 9:52:35 GMT
I'm just awaiting the national anthem (dirge) fallout
& what about the 10 bombers song ?
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Post by Funky Monk on Oct 16, 2024 11:27:24 GMT
What about it? It's fine.
Anyway the sad thing has been the media reaction, although entirely predictable. A month ago they were eulogising the first foreign manager we had, after lambasting him years earlier for being foreign.
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Post by saltyvinegar on Oct 16, 2024 11:58:30 GMT
What about it? It's fine. More like long-winded, boring & cringe-worthy. We should honour & respect those that fought in the war, not make light of it |
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Post by Funky Monk on Oct 16, 2024 12:02:34 GMT
I mean it does nothing for me personally, there's just also nothing wrong with it either.
We have gammon week coming up for that sort of thing after all.
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Post by pgtips (lurid) on Oct 23, 2024 23:28:00 GMT
I mean it does nothing for me personally, there's just also nothing wrong with it either. We have gammon week coming up for that sort of thing after all. Proms? |
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Post by Funky Monk on Oct 23, 2024 23:29:16 GMT
I mean it does nothing for me personally, there's just also nothing wrong with it either. We have gammon week coming up for that sort of thing after all. Proms? EU flags at the proms? A GERMAN in charge of the England team? Don't make me tap the sign.... |
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