Name: Chan Ho Yee (S176098)
Title: The impossible job
The role of England national soccer team manager has been described as “the impossible job”, even one of the best England manager Alex Ferguson said that England manager is an impossible job that he has turned down twice. Indeed, after Alf Ramsey lead the England team won the World Cup in 1996, none of an England manager has managed to achieve the quest of winning another major international tournament so far. The question is why is that so hard and impossible to win the international tournament. As the result, this essay is going to explain some major reason why is it difficult to be an England national soccer manager.
First of all, pressure from different stakeholders. As we all know, being an England manager tackles with different parties such as the first team, the medical staff, fans, media and even other …show more content…
From the social perspective, in the time of the 1970s and 1980s, football hooliganism haunted and harmed the English soccer. The hooligans purposely attacked and intimidated the supporters of other teams during a soccer match. Heysel Disaster in 1985, it changed the perspective of England fan and football.This result in the community somehow fear of playing soccer in England, and associating hooliganism with soccer, then fewer people interested in soccer, after that fewer people getting involved, less skilled player was developed during that time. Till now there is still hooliganism, in 2016 England vs Scotland, football fans arrested after fight at Wembley Stadium and vandalism in Trafalgar Square. Although other countries still have hooliganism threatening their country, England had the most serious problem with it, and being called as the English Disease. As an England soccer team manager, with less skilled players and bad atmosphere, it affects the psychological performance of the manager or even the national team
Title: The impossible job
The role of England national soccer team manager has been described as “the impossible job”, even one of the best England manager Alex Ferguson said that England manager is an impossible job that he has turned down twice. Indeed, after Alf Ramsey lead the England team won the World Cup in 1996, none of an England manager has managed to achieve the quest of winning another major international tournament so far. The question is why is that so hard and impossible to win the international tournament. As the result, this essay is going to explain some major reason why is it difficult to be an England national soccer manager.
First of all, pressure from different stakeholders. As we all know, being an England manager tackles with different parties such as the first team, the medical staff, fans, media and even other …show more content…
From the social perspective, in the time of the 1970s and 1980s, football hooliganism haunted and harmed the English soccer. The hooligans purposely attacked and intimidated the supporters of other teams during a soccer match. Heysel Disaster in 1985, it changed the perspective of England fan and football.This result in the community somehow fear of playing soccer in England, and associating hooliganism with soccer, then fewer people interested in soccer, after that fewer people getting involved, less skilled player was developed during that time. Till now there is still hooliganism, in 2016 England vs Scotland, football fans arrested after fight at Wembley Stadium and vandalism in Trafalgar Square. Although other countries still have hooliganism threatening their country, England had the most serious problem with it, and being called as the English Disease. As an England soccer team manager, with less skilled players and bad atmosphere, it affects the psychological performance of the manager or even the national team