...exactly repeat the mistakes already made, regardless of their apparent failure. The newspapers this morning full of talk that Steve McClaren is being considered as a replacement for Fabio Capello as England boss when the Italian steps down after the next European Championships.
I've read that one of the definitions of madness is the repetition of the same action over and over again in the expectation of a different outcome. That may well be apocryphal, but the simple stupidity of even considering this is extraordinary, and could possibly only happen in such an organisation of nitwits as the English Football Association. Not only has he failed in his mission to get us to the last European Championships with a set of players largely similar to those we have currently, and certainly no worse than those we have currently, but he's also got the same problems with his CV which are being levelled at Capello now.
Capello is such an easy target because he's foreign, it's all too easy to point out that his English is not good, but other things fired at him include the fact that his club CV is strong but his national team CV not so. Well, does the mere fact that McClaren is English blind the FA to the fact that this is something that McClaren can equally be accused of - he's done very well at club level, of that there can be no argument. But he's already had a go with England and failed.
And need I remind you that this is the man whose idea of a foreign language appears to be to speak English, heavily accented with faux-Dutch? How does that make him a better communicator that Capello? There are plenty enough reasons to give up caring about the England team as it is, many of which I've gone into here already, particularly during the World Cup. If the FA are so unimaginative, and stupid, as to reappoint Steve McClaren to the top job in English football, then it will be very, very difficult to find the will to care at all.
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