During the last couple of days in the aftermath of Roy Hodgson's resignation from England and the Three Lion's embarrassing elimination from the Euros, there has been much debate over who is the best choice to take on the seat. There is a certain part of the sports pundits who believe the next man for the job should be a foreigner, that way he won't be impregnated by all the idiosyncratic mannerisms every Englishman has.
As a fresh proposal for the England job, former Liverpool player Jamie Carragher wrote a column for the Daily Mail where he proposed a new coach who is German and has what it takes to take England out of the whole they got in. Jamie wrote: "My own view is that international football should be about the best in your country against the best of someone else's, so I had always favored an Englishman but there can be no complaints if the FA look to a foreign coach. With that in mind, I wouldn't knock the idea of appointing Jurgen Klinsmann, who has been to a World Cup semi-final with Germany, a Copa America semi-final with the United States and knows our game."
However, Carragher doesn't like the name of Alan Shearer running around the England pundits, he thinks it's a bad idea: "I wrote a column in January 2014, revolving around Roy Hodgson, David Moyes and Brendan Rodgers. They occupied three of the biggest jobs in football — England, Manchester United and Liverpool — and I said they needed to be a success to help the prospects of future British coaches getting top positions.
"That has not been the case, so if the FA look to cast their net further, there can't be complaints, even from Alan Shearer, who wasted no time throwing his hat into the ring after claiming Hodgson was 'tactically inept'. Shearer's patriotism is admirable but there is more to being a successful manager than just patriotism and emotion. Shearer, after all, will remember how, after acting on emotion when Newcastle called him in 2009, he failed to stop the club he has supported all his life being relegated."
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