Di matteo won a champions league. Dont think he won a premier league.
Cmon @Sidney put me out of my misery
Ancelotti
Spuds are not top level
Ah fuck it ya. Jaysus thats some return. I liked capello. A hard case
The English have a class thing with soccer that isnât there in say holland , Germany , Spain and Italy . The intellectuals in England are more in to cricket and rugby union . The better English managers tend to be spivs .
Ah they are bud. Established top four side now.
The great English managers always tended to be Northerners. The North East and Yorkshire in particular. I donât think itâs coincidental that those are the parts of England closest to Scotland.
Paisley, Clough, Nicholson, Chapman, Revie, Robson, Kendall. Jack Charlton too.
I wonder has the coal mining and manual labour background something to do with it in terms of organisation of men.
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Big Mick McCarthy.
The great Irish managers tend to be northerners too.
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Lovely twee tribute to Billy Bonds by West Ham today
Patrick OâConnell remains the greatest ever manager to come out of the Free State.
26 county managers have a really poor record in professional football.
Possibly . Always funny that jack , limited and had a small spell mining was a decent manager while Bobby had no aptitude for management .
Alf Ramsey was from essex. Took ipswich from the third division to first division winners, then won a world cup.
I think he was the pioneer of 4-4-2 and defensive football.
Fuck sake
What?
Limited but determined players traditionally make the best managers.
Alf Ramsey is the last Southern English manager to win the league, with Ipswich in 1962.
Since then ten English managers have won the league:
Harry Catterick (Darlington, Co. Durham)
Joe Mercer (Ellesmere Port, Cheshire at the bottom of the Wirral peninsula)
Don Revie (Middlesbrough)
Bertie Mee (Nottingham)
Brian Clough (Middlesbrough)
Bob Paisley (Hetton Le Hole, Co. Durham)
Ron Saunders (Birkenhead)
Joe Fagan (Liverpool)
Howard Kendall (Ryton, Co. Durham)
Howard Wilkinson (Sheffield)
Mee is the only one of those who wasnât a Northerner, but he definitely wasnât a Southerner.
Revie was the only one of those ten to manage England.
Brazil invented the back four.
Not Alan Brazil.
Great finish by Higuain
Everton PA has played 3 OASIS songs in the pre match build up 
Which ones mate?
3 liverpool fouls in first 60 seconds not blown. First everton one free blown. Tone set