- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Headline; First Edition edition (31 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755316517
- ISBN-13: 978-0755316519
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 876,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The England national team has had only eleven full-time managers – and Brian Glanville has known them all. In this fascinating account of each man – his strengths, weaknesses and impact on the game – Brian Glanville provides an in-depth analysis of the national team in general as well as the individuals under scrutiny. Funny, controversial, measured and thought-provoking, Glanville’s assessment of why England has, for the most part, underachieved, will be required reading for all football fans and for every member of the FA Committee – if they are prepared to read some unpalatable truths.
On Revie: ‘He was never cut out for the lonely exposed life of an international manager – almost pathologically thin-skinned.’
On Robson: ‘A mixture of good and bad luck characterised his years. He never seemed fully in control.’
On Venables: ‘Highly competent but appointed a few years too late.’
On Hoddle: ‘A curate’s egg of a regime.'
On Revie: ‘He was never cut out for the lonely exposed life of an international manager – almost pathologically thin-skinned.’
On Robson: ‘A mixture of good and bad luck characterised his years. He never seemed fully in control.’
On Venables: ‘Highly competent but appointed a few years too late.’
On Hoddle: ‘A curate’s egg of a regime.'
About the Author
Brian Glanville is a leading English football writer and novelist. He spent nearly thirty years as a football correspondent for the Sunday Times and has also written for the People and Italian newspapers. A lifelong Arsenal supporter, Glanville now writes for World Soccer magazine.
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A once great writer long past his best,
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This review is from: England Managers: The Toughest Job in Football (Hardcover)
In England Managers: The Toughest Job in Football Brian Glanville has bitten off rather more than he can chew. There is no harm in using only his own recollections, but he doesn't seem to know enough. If he wants to delve back into the history and psychology of England managers past and present, why no mention of the fundamental things that make them tick? Writing of the famous 5-1 win over Germany, when the England team ran riot against Germany, he makes Oliver Neuville, that gifted inside forward, a winger. And he describes `West Ham's precocious inside forward' Joe Cole (?) without naming him! Later in the same chapter he details the same game against Cameroon twice, but differently ,and repeats himself when describing Owen Hargreaves. He also attributes a performance by Wayne Rooney to a time when he was still at school. Sloppily written and edited, like David Beckham, Glanville seems to be a figure long past his best yet somehow surviving on his past reputation. How sad.
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