June 30 – As English football searches for a new manager after the humiliation of Euro 2016, the chairman of the country’s national federation, Greg Dyke (pictured), has questioned whether anyone at the top of the sport would actually want the job.
Roy Hodgson resigned following the team’s ignominious Euro 2016 exit to Iceland on Monday and a three-man FA panel has now begun the task of finding his successor.
England under-21 coach Gareth Southgate has been linked with the job part-time but is probably too inexperienced on a permanent basis and has said he doesn’t want it. Others suggested include Arsene Wenger after his long, distinguished spell at Arsenal and former England manager Glenn Hoddle who reads the game as well as anyone.
“It’s got to be somebody who really knows English football,” Dyke, whose term ends in July, told the British media. “But there’s loads of them now, more of them than there are English. The harder question is why anybody would want it. They get media pressure that no one else in football gets.”
David Bernstein, a former FA chairman, has backed Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce to succeed Hodgson. “I’m not saying we should have an English manager. But, of the English managers, I actually would go for Sam Allardyce,” Bernstein said.
“He’s a very powerful character. I think he’s got the personality, the strength, he’s a good technical manager, he’s very experienced and he’s someone who perhaps could imbue confidence.”
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