Ex - Palace manager Alan Smith was on talk crap last night explaining what type of manager England needed. He explained we needed a coach with a coaching badge(like him). Keegan he said was a personality but not a coach. Did anyone remember seeing his last attempt to coach a team at St James park in the premiership? I seem to remember Keegan had managed to "personality" not coach his team to play some flowing pass & move football (without a great number of star names) to win 3-0. So impressed were the Palace fans that they gave the Keegan personalitied team a standing ovation.

P.S will anyone have a spare for the liverpool game?

-- Anonymous, October 12, 2000

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I feel that everyone is beeing too hard on Keegan, If it hadn't been for an unsportmanlike German, and 70,000 prats that call themselves Engish fans, He would still be in charge, we would not be bottom of the group and this BBs would have virtually no postings.

-- Anonymous, October 12, 2000

If I was bothered about Ingerlan then I'd say it was the players on the pitch letting him down. He didn't do what he was famed for, dumping players who weren't good enough and taking a risk. Eventually, he dithered with new talent (Barry, Dyer, Heskey), relied too heavily on those who had seen better days (Adams, Seaman, Ince) and selected talentless crap on the basis of their club success (Wise, Neville(s)).

Hope he enjoys his golf...

-- Anonymous, October 13, 2000

"talentless crap on the basis of their club success". Just about sums the England team up really.

Players like Dyer even the Munchkin should really have been given more of an opportunity. Players like the Nevilles are there because of Giggs and Beckham and not because of their own abilities. It may have worked if G Neville could have played more games as a pair on the right hand side but you rarely get that opportunity in Internationals.

It would interesting for an outsider to come into manage England, spend four months watching the various players play and then picking his side. What sort of team would they pick?

-- Anonymous, October 13, 2000