Football Daily | What Andy Carroll did next: Bordeaux’s unlikely trebuchet
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It seems pretty likely that history will look back on the career of Andy Carroll (if at all) with a certain amount of puzzlement and confusion. Terrifyingly effective £35m goal trebuchet? Knack-prone serial flop? The final flourishing of the English Big Man? The great what-might-have-been of the Capello/Hodgson England eras? A wasted talent whose international caps only arrived because the alternative was Jay Bothroyd?
Re: the Thomas Tuchel hoo-haa (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). I recall no such fuss in Scotland back in 2002 when Berti Vogts was appointed Scotland manager. The bother only started after his departure in 2004 when he resigned, Scotland having plummeted to 77th in the Fifa rankings. I will be watching Tuchel’s tenure in his new post with interest. Bearing in mind he only has 18 months in the job, the question is how far England might tumble in that time?” – Bob Colman.
Following on from Harriet’s mail in yesterday’s letters, the Chelsea-to-international-management path isn’t just a recent phenomenon, indeed it’s a route well travelled. Further examples include: Glenn Hoddle; Tommy Docherty, who left Scotland before the 1974 World Cup campaign; Big Phil Scolari, who went back to Brazil; Claudio Ranieri, who managed Greece; Guus Hiddink, who had stints at Turkey and Holland between his two interim gigs, and Curacao after his final one; Dave Sexton, who managed England under-21s; and Avram Grant, who spent three years in charge of Ghana and who is now managing Zambia. It’s harder to find an ex-Chelsea manager who didn’t then venture into international management at some point” – Alex Metcalfe.
Re: the Bolivian air being ‘so thin visiting teams might as well be trying to play in outer space’ (yesterday’s Football Daily). Reminds me of a marvellous comment by Teddy Sheringham when, for who knows what reason, he was asked about playing against a team from Mars. ‘Tricky,’ he replied. ‘They’d be good in the air’” – Mark Dawson.
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