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WTF, Pearce Manager of Team GB

beats1

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I use to think I was the only one who though he was shit but seems sherwood agrees with me, with him only playing players who are with PL clubs who barely get any minutes instead of looking at good young championship players

I really hate Pearce so inept its unbelievable! for fucksake the U21 management didn't even know who Tom Carroll was until 2 months ago
 

beats1

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but honestly how is still u21 manager, it seems he made a career out of beating teams like azerbaijan
 

mike_l

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Kind of makes sense though really given that it will have to be U23's and afaik so far only England have agreed to participate, so it's likely to be mainly made up of his U21 squad.

Despite this I believe him to be inept beyond belief.
 

mpickard2087

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Makes sense in a way, but I agree he seems totally inept at the job he is doing. Scary thing is I can see the brains trust at the FA appointing him manager when Capello finally fucks off.
 

Bus-Conductor

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I use to think I was the only one who though he was shit but seems sherwood agrees with me, with him only playing players who are with PL clubs who barely get any minutes instead of looking at good young championship players

I really hate Pearce so inept its unbelievable! for fucksake the U21 management didn't even know who Tom Carroll was until 2 months ago

You're certainly not alone:
30.06.2009:

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=1430304&postcount=75

I have never understood the logic of appointing Pearce as U21 coach.

It's not about grinding your way to results, it's about coaching and improving these youngsters to be good enough to one day step up to full international level.


Is a player who's speciality was kicking people up in the air really the person you want to in trust with the technical development of a future generation of international players ?



27.06.2010:

Not that old chestnut. English kids are still kicking balls around parks and streets as much as German kids are. Some of the best players in the world come from respectable middles class backgrounds.

Greed is a problem. English players and their agents demand way more than their actual global market value. Clubs don't shop abroad because foreign players are cheaper pro rata but because they can buy players of a much higher quality for comparable money. It's like having the choice of a BMW or a ford Mondeo for the same money.

English kids get much better opportunities to make a career of football than just about any other nation, due to the structure of football in the UK.

The whole way of prioritising national football is fucking stupid anyway. It is the clubs that generate income and pay for the development of players. It is the fans of these clubs that finance this (through turnstiles, merchandise & TV subscriptions etc) so why should club football (and it's fans) have to suffer an inferior product so that the freeloading old farts at the FA and FIFA should make billions on the back of international tournaments only to waste it by paying Neanderthals like Stuart Pearce to train our players.

He's technically and tactically poor. What are those young players really learning from Pearce ?



18:11:2010

The best thing the FA could do is put Arsene Wenger in charge of English football from top to bottom.

Andy Townsend has always been a bit of dick but he said the truest thing I think he's ever said tonight. At the end of the highlights he said "Capello doesn't have the answers (to England's embarrassing disparity of class against better opposition) but I'm not sure anyone does. Even Mourinho would struggle to get that lot to play better football. Maybe We are just not good enough"

I think like an alcoholic at an AA meeting, the best thing England could do is start by admitting that intelligence, coaching and technique wise they are light years behind other major - and some minor - nations.

Stop Doing things like appointing Stuart Pearce as U21 coach. What fucking wisdom is this thick fucking clogger going to impart on on people like Wiltshire.

What a ridiculous appointment.

The last time England tried to play decent football was under Hoddle, but those gutless pricks at the FA let the media sack him. Hoddle is a bit of dick but at least he had some kind of footballing ethos and refused to let the media pick his team. Plus 4 weeks under Venables.

But they were brief interludes in what has been almost an entire lifetime (of mine - 45 years) of mediocre (at best) football played by England.



I came in here to comment on the mind boggling stupidity of appointing Pearce as manager of the Olympic team, having watched the dire football he's managed to get the U21's playing. He'll probably grind his way to a gold medal, and it will set English football back another ten years.
 

beats1

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Makes sense in a way, but I agree he seems totally inept at the job he is doing. Scary thing is I can see the brains trust at the FA appointing him manager when Capello finally fucks off.

I know, but there were rumours harry was going to do or even Fergie, I never heard anyone suggest Pearce, if England do well i will be convinced we should hire Powell as a coach as there is no way pearce could do decent job

Also it says alot when the other nations feel like it will be english team and it doesn't help getting the U21 england manager to do it
 

nailsy

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I'm not a big Pearce fan either (as a manager anyway, he was a fantastic player), but I have to agree that he seems like a logical choice considering the final will be within a week of the Premier League season kicking off.
 

riversmonkey

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Whomever gets this job is on a hiding to nothing. Pearce should be applauded for taking the role. No matter what you think of his abilities as a coach, he loves the game. Besides, what he's faced with the U-21's in terms of squad withdrawals, will actually put him in good stead for this role.
 
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