Happy Thanksgiving, Steve McClaren!

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 Happy Thanksgiving, Steve McClaren!
I realize this will come as a terrible, terrible shock to many of you, but Steve McClaren has been fired from the England job. (Gasp!) That’s what happens, it seems, when 80% of your team’s performances are ragged and dire, and you fail to qualify for Euro 2008 despite being handed an enormous, flashing lifeline [...] [link]

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McClaren Gets £2.5m for Failure, Who’s Next in the England Hot Seat?
Published 11/22/2007 by Daryl at World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010
... I have to disagree with Laurie’s enthusiasm Alan Shearer getting the job. He was a great striker and pretty convincing in those McDonald’s adverts, but he’s never managed a football team in his life. And though he plans to one day get into management what England need now is an expert, not a novice. ...

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