Steve Maclaren is nothing like my idea of a good England manager. He lost all credibility before he even started because of the way in which he dumped one of the worlds most famous 'right foots'. I don't think he has a clue about managerial inspiration and it was one of the most pathetic ways of asserting authority I have ever seen and feel that it's hardly surprising the England team reacted badly.
He set himself up to be embarrassed because football has a lot to do with form, and there can't be too many people who think David Beckham is not worth at least keeping close at hand.
The problem of course starts with the FA who are a bunch of old brigade losers themselves~~ remember when they tried to openly recruit Scholari just a few weeks before he took Portugal to the world cup finals, I mean how utterly stupid was that in terms of timing.
IMO We won't win anything much with this guy, he's just another control freak who hated the idea of a player being bigger than the manager, a problem Becks has been confronted with on two previous occasions.
MaClaren is just like the people who employed him and the sooner they are all gone the better.
Tonight was just a friendly, without the full team but I just get the feeling they don't really get going under this 'little' man, who has absolutely no presence at all.
Edit. ok sorry, this was a bit of an off topic rant. I just have a thing about the FA.lol