Yet again, England have found a way to reach to a whole new low. The latest episode for embarrassment for England is losing to Iceland, a team with about three hundred thousand folks and a few part-timers. But let's not dwell on such things, because a good football team is a good football team and that's the end of discussion.
Now it's time to search for a new manager and England would be mindless and going backwards if they choose the obvious Southgate. I get that he has done some good work with the under-21 and he's a good manager but if England want to move forward then Southgate is not the man and is not a bold enough choice to try and get the Three Lions back to where they were in 1998.
Let's talk about 1998. The last time England were relevant on the world stage was back in that French World Cup, ironically. It was Glenn Hoddle who was the man in the dugout and the way in which England played, who lost with the lottery of penalties, was like an actual team who knew what they were doing and could go far in a tournament.
England need to find a system and a structure to their play. They need to go back to what has worked for them and what they understand. Hoddle played a simple but effective way for England and that's what it's all about. Football is complicated enough as it is, there's no point in making it even more complex for yourselves. Hoddle I think can come in and put people in their best positions and give them an identity. That is what they were badly lacking in this tournament and it lead to their downfall as they had no system to refer to and work with when the going went tough.
This all comes down though to if England can forgive him for his comments about the disabled, which cost him his job. It was based on his religious beliefs and it's something he can easily apologise for and everyone can move forward from that. To hold that against him from becoming manager would be incredibly stupid and will only harm England. Hoddle, any day of the week, is a better manager with fresher ideas than a lot of the candidates that have been mentioned. It would be the best thing for England because eighteen years of mediocrity is very unfair to a country who are so obsessed with this sport.
Time fot a change, and the right change. HH
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