Is John Terry really the right man for the job?

Strong, brave, passionate, vocal it’s a no brainer he’s perfect for the job right? However this is also the man who will happily sleep with his fellow team mates girlfriend, which is hardly an attribute that will unite the England dressing room.

As much as we all like a Roy of the rovers captain that will pump is fists in the air and throw his body on the line. This is surely a terrible decision by Capello who Less than a year ago removed the captaincy from Terry due to his off the field antics and now he seems to giving it straight back to him on a plate.

All this has come at the expense of Rio Ferdinand, who in the last few months has endeared himself to the public due mainly to his mass presence on social networking site twitter. As at present he has a following of 659,179 fans. With many admiring him as he comes across as a down to earth, calm and responsible guy. Surely this is the man we want at the helm? Granted he was banned from international football for missing a drugs test, but he has served his ban and gone on to become the Man United captain and is very much respected figure in the game.

With many fans and pundits still fuming after England’s shambolic exit from the World Cup Fabio Capello would be wise to reconsider his current candidate of choice.

Arise Sir Redknapp?

I must confess that when Harry Redknapp (above) first came to Spurs I wasn’t exactly doing back flips with celebration or hailing the new messiah. On the contrary I felt that we could have maybe found someone with more winning credentials and a higher success rate in terms of winning trophies. Not to mention the fact that he comes across a bit dodgy and the term ‘brown paper bag’ is a phrase often coined when our ‘Arry is around.

However this all changed within two minutes when I saw his first press interview at Spurs. The passion and enthusiasm shown was something I hadn’t seen in a Spurs manager since Terry Venables and like Venables he came across as someone who can motivate players and get the best out of them.


At the time of his appointment Spurs were looking like relegation fodder, languishing at the bottom of the Premier League and to quote a typical Harry phrase

‘We had just 2 points from 8 games’

Within two weeks of his arrival we had beaten Bolton, dragged ourselves out of relegation and came back from 4-2 down to draw 4-4 against Arsenal in an epic game at the emirates.

Fast forward on to today, Spurs have progressed on to the Quarter Finals of the champions league. Having knocked out AC Milan and beating the champions Inter Milan in the process and in turn cheeky chappy Harry has become the first English manager to get this far in the worlds best club tournament. This feat has brought on heavy speculation that he will be the next England manager and although I’d hate to see him leave the lane, I think that he fully deserves it

Now this is by no means an ‘Ode to Redknapp’ but surely he deserves some sort of acknowledgment for what he has done so far. As nowadays good English managers are a dying breed and what Harry Redknapp has done at Spurs has put him up there with the best of them.