Steve McClaren

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UEFA Cup draw: What lies ahead for Spurs, Villa, Pompey and City

Jonathan O’Shea looks at the English quartet’s chances of progressing into the knockout stages of the Uefa Cup.

Why none of us want to be the England manager anymore

Bobby Fletcher reflects on England’s dour performance against the Czech Republic and the impossible job of Capello.

Five Things

Ronaldo farce: So it’s one more year for Cristiano Ronaldo, but the whole affair has been a ridiculous pantomime with the Portuguese belatedly pledging his short-term future to the club that made him and offering a half-apology in a pathetic effort to make things right with the club and its supporters. Come summer 2009, the [...]

Capello Can’t Go Wrong: The ‘Cushiest Job’ In Football

It has been argued by many that the job as the manager of the England football team is the ‘toughest job’ in football; it has come to be regarded as a thankless task – it is, they say, the ‘impossible job’.
Or, at least, this is how it may seem when one recalls the countless years [...]