shunwick
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Yes. It has become fashionable for Premier League teams, and Championship teams with Premier League aspirations, to hire foreign coaches. Also, English football managers are a different breed from the continental system of Head Coach. English, or rather British managers, mainly ply their trade in the Football League and lower and they have very little chance of getting Head Coach jobs in the Premier League. Antonio Conte, for example, is not the manager of Chelsea - not in the English sense - he is their Head Coach and many of the functions of "manager" have been moved to backroom staff. Large clubs have large encampments of backroom staff from media specialists to data analysts to investment advisors etc. Who is the Chelsea manager? Can't be bothered to find out but he or she has little input into how the first team plays. That part is handled by the Head Coach. The Premier League is a fantasy land, a billionaire's playground. Image, style, and status are the main drivers. Who in the Premier League, would hire Ernie Thistlewood, the chain smoking, overweight, and sweaty 53 year old who revolutionised football at Grimsby rather than Oscar de la Fuego, the 38 year old up and coming in-thing who once scored a goal against Barcelona, drives a Ferrari and looks good on camera? I don't mean to belittle foreign coaches. The point is that no matter how good a manager Ernie Thistlewood is, and he may be a tactical mastermind, he stands little chance of job in the Premier League. Image, style, and status. All the things I am good at. Life is still good in Braintree. Best wishes, Steve
< Message edited by shunwick -- 8/28/2017 9:26:50 PM >
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