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<blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 370391" data-attributes="member: 185281">Yeah, try 606 - <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/606/default.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/606/default.stm</a>. Nice bunch, although they can be very determined in their opinions.As for the subject itself, I don't see how not having any form of management would do any good. If you put a good manager in the role, they generally do a good job, and not always because they happen to have the best selection of players - Sir Alf Ramsey himself said they he picked the best team, not the best players.Robson and Venables both did a great job but the FA didn't appreciate them. Trust the FA, only a bunch of mugs like them could appoint Barwick as head 'O'-red. Reading on Wikipedia just now, he says of Robson: 'He also led England to the semi-finals in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_World_Cup_1990" target="_blank">1990 World Cup</a> where they lost to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" target="_blank">West Germany</a> on penalties. Robson has since said that not a day goes by when he does not think about the semi-final and other choices he might have made'. I must myself plead guilty to occassionaly thinking of ways we should have beat Portugal last year, my goodness we should have won that O-no</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Salty25, post: 370391, member: 185281"] Yeah, try 606 - [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/606/default.stm[/URL]. Nice bunch, although they can be very [I]determined[/I] in their opinions. As for the subject itself, I don't see how not having any form of management would do any good. If you put a good manager in the role, they generally do a good job, [B]and[/B] not always because they happen to have the best selection of players - Sir Alf Ramsey himself said they he picked the best team, not the best players. Robson and Venables both did a great job but the FA didn't appreciate them. Trust the FA, only a bunch of mugs like them could appoint Barwick as head 'O'-red. Reading on Wikipedia just now, he says of Robson: 'He also led England to the semi-finals in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_World_Cup_1990"][COLOR=#0000ff]1990 World Cup[/COLOR][/URL] where they lost to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_national_football_team"][COLOR=#0000ff]West Germany[/COLOR][/URL] on penalties. Robson has since said that not a day goes by when he does not think about the semi-final and other choices he might have made'. I must myself plead guilty to occassionaly thinking of ways we should have beat Portugal last year, my goodness we should have won that O-no [/QUOTE]

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