Mailbag: Why does England not produce many elite coaches?
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Marcus, Andy and Jim are back to answer more of your questions, and we’re kicking off with one that’s dominated English football discourse for years: why doesn't England produce many elite coaches?
Whether it’s a lack of intelligent football discussion (guilty), the FA resting on their laurels or dwindling opportunities in the Premier League, there’s loads to get stuck into. We then undo all our cutting insight by dreaming up some footballers’ appearances on celebrity cooking shows. Who would Jose Mourinho poison an unsuspecting victim with a pufferfish? And would Big Sam know his way around a Massaman curry?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the football ramble mailbag English managers and |
| 0:04.8 | footballers cooking of the orders of the day it's Saturday 30th of December I'm |
| 0:08.8 | Marcus Speller I'm Jim Campbell and I'm Eddie Russell. Welcome one and all to the mail bag. Bloody good to have you with us. A reminder that if |
| 0:29.1 | you want to get involved on the mail bag you can tweet us on X at football ramble messages on |
| 0:34.3 | Instagram at football ramble and of course you can email us show at football ramble a |
| 0:39.2 | dot com now everybody before we get stuck into those juicy questions are |
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| 0:55.0 | listen right to the very end of the show after the adverts where Pete Donaldson will |
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| 1:09.4 | Everybody it is vital if you want to get a 50 incher coming to you this time of year. |
| 1:15.0 | Jim Campbell, you've got the first question so get us underway on the mailbag |
| 1:20.0 | damn you. |
| 1:21.0 | I do have the first question now this is from Lewis Gamble Thompson. He emailed us. |
| 1:25.7 | Why has England struggled to produce world-class coaches slash managers? We have had some of the most |
| 1:30.5 | talented players in the world, but that doesn't seem to lead to a great |
| 1:33.7 | coaching career yeah so I put that to you yeah well yeah I mean I don't think we need to |
| 1:41.3 | reel off all the kind of stats and facts but no English manager has ever |
| 1:45.6 | won the Premier League obviously Howard Wilkinson won the old division one |
| 1:48.4 | before it became the Premier League so no English manager has ever won the top flight. |
| 1:53.0 | There is a caveat on that, isn't there? |
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