Thursday, 6 October 2016

'I don't know what I'm doing here': which England managers gave these quotes?

Nineteen brave men (including five caretakers) have taken on the impossible job of managing the England team. They have not always talked a lot of sense

Who said this about Sven-Goran Eriksson: "We were expecting Winston Churchill and instead we got Iain Duncan-Smith"?

Glenn Hoddle

Stuart Pearce

Gareth Southgate

Kevin Keegan

Who said: "People want success. It's like coffee, they want instant"?

Fabio Capello

Bobby Robson

Glenn Hoddle

Graham Taylor

Who said this about his England team: "They’ve done everything that we told them not to do – everything that we told them not to do"?

Graham Taylor

Kevin Keegan

Steve McClaren

Peter Taylor

Who said: "I don't really know what I'm doing here"?

Graham Taylor

Kevin Keegan

Joe Mercer

Roy Hodgson

Who said: "I never heard a minute's silence like that" in 1997?

Roy Hodgson

Bobby Robson

Glenn Hoddle

Don Revie

Who said this about twinkle-toed Leeds winger Eddie Gray: "When he plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints"?

Don Revie

Alf Ramsey

Ron Greenwood

Joe Mercer

Who said: "If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen"?

Terry Venables

Steve McClaren

Roy Hodgson

Gareth Southgate

Who said this about the lack of English players in the top flight: "One of the matches I went to watch was Arsenal v Manchester City and, because there were Scottish, Irish and Welsh players in both teams, there were only five players out of the 22 that I could select"?

Alf Ramsey

Walter Winterbottom

Ron Greenwood

Don Revie

Who said this about his rock n roll credentials: "I’m on the inside sleeve of a punk album by The Lurkers called God’s Lonely Men. The picture was taken at the Marquee Club in London in the late 1970s."

Roy Hodgson

Gareth Southgate

Fabio Capello

Stuart Pearce

Who summarised his temperament by saying: "I am not one to jump over the moon or off a cliff"?

Sam Allardyce

Steve McClaren

Sven-Goran Eriksson

Alf Ramsey

Who said: "I can’t stand the crap that gets talked by everyone – players, fans, the media, club officials. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me?"

Fabio Capello

Sam Allardyce

Glenn Hoddle

Kevin Keegan

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