Will an English manager ever win the Premier League?

[Mikeyjae]

Interesting question and an interesting article by the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39765098

Will an English manager ever win the Premier League?

So far it has been won with have 3 Italians maybe 4 after the week is out.
2 from Scotland.
1 French.
1 Portuguese
1 Chilean.

The last English manager to win the top flight was Howard Wilkinson with Leeds 25 years ago.

Personally I think yes but it will be many years away and that may actually be down to rule changes, or if the Premier League loses it status as one of the top leagues in the World. As it stands English managers are no longer given the chance to manage big clubs. Moyes was the last British manager to be given a chance at the top.

[Wadeski]

I dont see any reason why not, but the current generation of British managers are still feeling the aftereffects of British clubs being frozen out of Europe in the 80s and early 90s, through bans and lack of quality.

Modern coaching techniques were developed at European clubs in the 90s (Ajax, Barca, Bayern etc) and not enough English players or coaches were involved. Think how much "hoof it to the big lad" we had in the premier league even 20 years ago.

Look forward 10 years and I think we will see the globalization of these practices in the 00s trickle down to a new generation of managers.

[AJB88]

can't see it, its easier to attack "better" players from abroad with a foreign manager

shame really.

[Mikeyjae]

I have always wanted to see what Big Sam or Tony Pulis could do if they where in charge of a big club. They have proved they can defend and keep clubs in the premier, I think if they had a club that had the ability to defend well and attack well they would do very well. Big Sam had a great chance with England but we all know what happened.

Gary Neville hit the nail on the head in that article. No English manager wants to take his chance abroad. Gary tried it and failed and now Tony Adams seems to have failed also.

[FN2TypeR]

Mikeyjae said:

I have always wanted to see what Big Sam or Tony Pulis could do if they where in charge of a big club. They have proved they can defend and keep clubs in the premier, I think if they had a club that had the ability to defend well and attack well they would do very well. Big Sam had a great chance with England but we all know what happened.

Gary Neville hit the nail on the head in that article. No English manager wants to take his chance abroad. Gary tried it and failed and now Tony Adams seems to have failed also.

Tony Adams was on a hiding to absolutely feck all at Granada though - just topping up the tan and pension pot.

[Sparkyhd]

FN2TypeR said:

Tony Adams was on a hiding to absolutely feck all at Granada though - just topping up the tan and pension pot.

I'm in Granada now and it's raining so Tony failed all round.

[aeropilot]

Mikeyjae said:

Gary Neville hit the nail on the head in that article. No English manager wants to take his chance abroad. Gary tried it and failed and now Tony Adams seems to have failed also.

Only one that's close to that, is Paul Clements having had a couple of successful assistant coach roles under top flight managers at Real Madrid and Bayen Munich....

Whether he'll make it as a top flight manager in his own right by ever winning the PL (or even given a chance to) is another matter.

[FN2TypeR]

Sparkyhd said:

FN2TypeR said:

Tony Adams was on a hiding to absolutely feck all at Granada though - just topping up the tan and pension pot.

I'm in Granada now and it's raining so Tony failed all round.