Brian Barwick is an IDIOT!

Apparently being the Chief Executive of the Football Association doesn’t require too much in the way of intelligence. Less than a week after introducing the new England manager Fabio Capello as “A winner with a capital W”, Brian Barwick is now telling us that we shouldn’t expect success. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! You have spent all this time selling us on the fact that Capello is the man who can resurrect the national team and bring back world respect. Now you are holding up your hands and saying ‘Let’s not get our hopes up’. He’s telling us that none of the current crop of English managers are good enough to be England manager. Yet by the sound of it he isn’t expecting a qualified candidate to do much. I don’t know exactly what the FA is paying Capello and his crew, but I’m sure we could have gotten the same result from a less qualified Englishman for less money. How the hell did Barwick get this job?

                             

I have nothing against Fabio Capello. In fact I feel that his no-nonsense approach is exactly what the current group of over paid underachievers needs to become successful on the world’s stage. I fail to see however why he had to have the top five members of his staff be Italian including his fitness coach. I may be a bit daft, but I fail to see why it was so imperative to bring in a fitness coach as part of the deal when fitness is usually the concern of the club and he’s only going to see these guys for a week and a half at a time. Did Barwick or Brooking have any backbone in these negotiations? Or did they have their hearts so set on Capello that they were willing to okay anything to get him to sign?

Brian Barwick claims that he wrote out a template and no English manager “ticked all of the boxes”. Did Tweedledee and Tweedledumb even interview anyone other that Capello? My guess on that would be no. When Stuart Pearce was hired to manage the England Under-21 squad I’m sure he didn’t “tick all of the boxes”. Pearce had an abismal record at Manchester City and more than a few of us scratched our heads at his appointment. But, he lead the U-21 team to the UEFA European Under-21 Championships semi-finals where they lost to the Netherlands (eventual champions) after sixteen rounds of penalty shootout. Did Psycho get an interview? Probably not, that would have made sense, and that’s just not Barwick’s style. Just ask Martin O’Neill.

                   

O’Neill interviewed for the England job in 2006 and would have been a great choice for the job. But, nooo! The FA’s finest morons appointed Luiz Felipe Scolari (who was managing Portugal in the upcoming World Cup) before the World Cup and drove the Brazilian away. They settled on Steve McClaren instead. So instead of going for a fully qualified O’Neill they settled for a manager who lost spectacularly in his UEFA Cup Final swan song (4-0 to FC Sevilla). In doing so they pissed off Martin O’Neill and drove away a British contender for the job.

I wonder if the FA is hiring? I don’t know anything about running a football association, but apparently that’s not a requirement for the job.