Welcome everybody to soccer 101.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week we're taking a break from previewing the many, many, many different teams that will be at this summer's World Cup. And it is this summer's World Cup, Graham Ruffin. It's no longer the upcoming World Cup. It's now this summer. Terrifying. That's really terrifying. I prefer it as an abstract concept than a real thing. Dude, people keep asking me what the plans are for the World Cup and when I tell them,

like, yeah, we're going to be in LA for three weeks. They're like, oh, are you excited? I'm just like, no, I'm mostly just really terrified and nervous right now. I'll get there. I'm sure we'll get there and be excited. The 101 previews and discussing the leagues have helped me get excited. but this week we're taking a break to talk about something that is less exciting for me these days is managerial vacancies and how seldom they are filled by English managers.

Part of that informed by the club I support Manchester United, having an English manager step in to be the inner manager for the rest of the season.

So that's one, Graham.

Chelsea have done something similar. We've had a few few but we haven't always had a lot of yeah I'm personally really excited to talk about how terrible English soccer is isn't it awful

they just have no idea what they're doing south of the border that's what this whole

episode is is going to be about no you gave them the sport. Yeah. Not a single Premier League winning manager. Can't relate to that. We've got two and one of them won like 13 of them. Yeah. There you go. Yeah, I mean, what got me thinking about this subject, Taylor, was, as you say, Michael Carrick as interim Manchester manager. Also, Liam Resenior, I almost said Resignor there, that's going to take some getting

used to, both English, of course, and it is a rarity that we have two traditional big six

clubs, excuse me, being coached by Englishmen. And this has been a question for a long time,

right?

Why, when the Premier League is the giant that it is,

why when the English national team is now so stopped with world-class talent,

has England failed over generations now to produce world-class managers?

No English manager has won the Premier League.

As I just reference, The English national team is

currently coach by a German coach in Thomas Tuchel. Of course, we should mention in women's soccer,

there's Emma Hayes, so there's that notable exception. She's widely seen as, you know, if not the

best, one of the best coaches in the women's game. But even in the women's game, England,

they're coached by a Dutch woman. So I think it is an

interesting discussion to have this is not a flash in the pan thing. This is a consistent

trend for English managers who are still struggling to make a breakthrough at the top level.

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