Source: FOOTYMAD
Why Is Shearer Linked With England Post?
Sir Trevor Brooking has revealed the Football Association are hoping the next England manager will be homegrown ... and once again Alan Shearer seems to be top of the list. Do we have a phobia about Englishness and the job must go to a home-grown man? No English manager has EVER won the Premiership, so why should we rule out the winners? As for Alan Shearer ... a legend on Tyneside, granted ... but only when he's wearing football boots. He has managed one team - for eight games - and won one. Is that the sort of "experience" we want at the highest level? Sir Trevor Brooking: "I think longer term, after Fabio, we'd like to go English. "We want to create a spell where we appoint English coaches and Fabio can help us enormously to bridge that gap and help that transition. "We've got a short-term priority of the qualifying games but over the next couple of years the National Football Centre will hopefully be built, and that's going to be the hub site for the future development of English coaches. "We were all stunned at how poor we were. "We reflected on it, as he did. From a pride point of view he was hugely disappointed - but he wanted to try to do better and help rebuild. "It's important to have someone experienced in now for the next couple of years because the next two, four, six years are going to be a challenge for whoever's managing the team. "The review, I'm hoping, is to look at budgets because the shame is that we're doing this at a time which is tough for the FA from an economic point of view. "I accept that the financial environment is tough, but there's no doubt that Spain, Germany and Holland - who were the three European semi-finalists at the World Cup - invested in coaching and player development as a priority in the last decade, and they are probably reaping the benefits now."
