How would you feel if we appointed Steve McClaren?

[VillaZogmariner]

£210 for 1 week in Valencia and a ticket for the Grand Prix?

Chinny rec-on

[holtepaul]

Er = dont you feel silly.

It is when you own an apartment there, have got ryanair flights from Bham for 28 quid return and the tickets for 160 euro.

the rest is on car hire

Oh - take that mister !!

[VillaZogmariner]

No I don't feel silly.

[holtepaul]

No I don't feel silly.

Ok no worries- but tell you what -

I feel smug ! 

[VillaZogmariner]

Congratulations.

[tommy_boy]

I am from Greece, so maybe that's why I don't understand why McClaren is so unpopular among English fans.
 I mean he had huge success with Middlesbrough and Twente.

Yes he screwed up with England, but I can't remember one manager in the past that had success with England. I think it's all about the pressure the media put on the England boss. No England team played good football as far as I'm concerned.

[achilles]

Ask me again in a week's time... can we have a new poll then!

[hipkiss92]

If the board are paying attention to these threads can I point out that a lack of Premier League experience shouldn't rule a manager out of the job

[adrenachrome]

If the board are paying attention to these threads can I point out that a lack of Premier League experience shouldn't rule a manager out of the job

Ooooh you're bold!

[villa `cross the mersey]

The way things have gone this week - I would be both disappointed and relieved!!

[madirishvillain]

i would feel embarrassed

[jonc73]

 I mean he had huge success with Middlesbrough and Twente.

. That isn't important to many on this forum, it's far more important to focus on being one of a long line of England failures, and talking in a slow, clear way to a foreign journalist which apparently is a Dutch accent

[Stu]

I mean he had huge success with Middlesbrough and Twente.

. That isn't important to many on this forum, it's far more important to focus on being one of a long line of England failures, and talking in a slow, clear way to a foreign journalist which apparently is a Dutch accent

No, it was a terrible Dutch accent. MacLaren's a Yorkshireman and sounds absolutely nothing like that normally. That's why he has the piss ripped out of him over here - probably just as much for the brolly incident.

[jonc73]

No, it was a terrible Dutch accent. MacLaren's a Yorkshireman and sounds absolutely nothing like that normally. That's why he has the piss ripped out of him over here - probably just as much

It really wasn't. If you speak to people who are non native speakers of English, you have to speak slowly and clearly-that is what he did.  It also sounds nothing like a Dutch accent - I hear both nearly every working day.  This doesn't make such a good story though, Graham Taylor wasn't actually a Turnip either. It's just great fun to knock the guy-he is a good manager. Boro in the UEFA cup final?? I wish I could have seen Villa get there.

[KevinGage]

It was a comedy Dutch accent.

It probably sounds nothing like an authentic Amsterdam brogue with all it's subtle nuances, true. That's why it's a comedy Dutch accent.  In the same way that Rene out of Allo Allo doesn't really sound like a French native.