Mark Hughes re-appears at Southampton...

[Croesy Blue]

"premier league experience" is the phrase that holds the English game back more than anything else.
Proven mediocre at best managers continually getting top jobs no matter how often they fail.

They always moan about foreign managers blocking the path for young British managers but the old boys club who keep getting the jobs despite being proven failures is the real issue.

Pardew, Hughes, Allardyce, Moyes etc keep getting sacked but then get another premier league job immediately

[J R Hartley]

They always moan about foreign managers blocking the path for young British managers but the old boys club who keep getting the jobs despite being proven failures is the real issue.

Pardew, Hughes, Allardyce, Moyes etc keep getting sacked but then get another premier league job immediately

How is Mark Hughes a proven failure? He has regularly had top 10 finishes with unfashionable clubs. He finished 9th with Stoke 3 years on the trot, before a poor season this season, so 3 good seasons out of 4 and hes classed as a failure?

And given the clubs Allardyce has kept up in this division I wouldnt call him a failure either. What he did Sunderland and Palace in recent times was nothing short of miraculous.

[BLUETIT]

Russ would have done it for £200.