A Summer’s Rest For United Stars
United stars such as Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and Owen Hargreaves will get a summer’s rest following England’s failure to qualify for the Euro 2008 tournament.
Former Red coach Steve McClaren is dead in the water as England coach. The BBC reports that his fate will be decided at an unscheduled FA meeting set to take place at 8h30 on 22 November. Will the FA stay native with the next manager or will the pendulum swing again towards a foreign coach? Rumours suggest Fabio Capello is prepared to take on the hardest job in football.
Yes, McClaren was cursed by injuries and a loss of form to key players. Yes, his Premiership playing pool is ever shallower thanks to the top clubs’ propensity to field non-English talent.
Nevertheless, the group looked a cake walk for England when the fixtures were announced. England should have qualified. In the final analysis, the players didn’t perform when it mattered but they were let down by a manager, promoted beyond his talent.
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