Managerial Material

No sooner had the FA appointed a new England football manager and the team had played one match, it seems that he could not take the job any more and having engineered a great back up plan should he need an exit, he used it and got himself out of the firing line. Old Guesty was always pretty sly at manipulating my way out of an untenable situation but Allardyce must be considered a genius, he saw the mammoth scale of his task and decided he could not succeed. Better to be thought of as a man who talks out of turn and gets caught by an undercover sting than carry on with an impossible job! Talk about Machiavellian, Big Sam was always known for his meticulous planning but what a bale out plan. My hats off to him! He must be sitting at home with a big smile and a glass of champers telling his nearest and dearest what a close shave that was!
No wonder Southgate has chosen to take the task on temporarily and not commit himself to the poison chalice on a permanent basis.
As I have said before who would want to take on the task of managing the national side? The FA (which surely stands for Foolish Arses!) must wish that a hole would open up and swallow them. Get the appointment right and wrong all at the same time, brilliant!
So who is next for the suicide mission that is the England managers job? Would you wish to be one of the bookies favourites? 
If I was given the task, I would treat the whole gig as a hostile situation, after all if you play well and win, nobody gives you credit and if you loose or worse play badly you have to take all the criticism. The media never treat those two impostors the same, it is always blown out of proportion. So my plan would be, look lads we are going to get stick no matter what we do, so go out without a care in the world play like you were on the playground and whatever you do score more goals than the opposition. If they were just better than us then we will just hold up our hands and say so. If we win and we will say little and just get on with the next game. Guesty, I hear you say that's not the way the whole thing works, well I bally well don't give a toss, the media will hype and write whatever they want whatever, so sod the bloody lot of them! It's all to serious anyway, there are worse things happening in the world. 
Vacancy, England Manager, requirements, thick skin, a plastered smile, ability to pick a squad of players, a warped sense of humour, ability to change ones answer within the same sentence and most of all a fail safe plan to loose the job when required! Simple.