Who is popular today?

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!An impossible job? Graham Taylor crystallised the England management experience when he raged and flailed in a Rotterdam dugout for our amusement – but in truth, ever since Walter Winterbottom changed desks at FA HQ in 1946, The England Job has been a fraught, contradictory puzzle. We’ve seen the best managerial minds of many generations destroyed by its complexities, the hefty historical burdens on and off the pitch burrowing their way into the psyches of even the most forensic football men. Fabio Capello, a legendary coach whose total lack of PR smarts lit a fire that burned his England reign to the ground, once pointed to the side of his head to outline the impassible obstacle to success – he was talking about his players (of course he was), but it felt like a Freudian slip.The stuff about Didier Deschamps and the effect of butterflies flapping their wings half a planet away (yesterday’s Football Daily) strikes me as over-egging it. As Ken Dodd told us, Didier means very small and Deschamps just means some fields. Are we just not talking about some small fields in the Neuilly countryside?” – Phil Hearn.Talk of the butterfly effect offers an opportunity to quote the great PG Wodehouse (whom every opportunity to quote should be taken). He offered the following description of a golfer which is certainly one I recognise all too well: ‘The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.’ Do we know if Deschamps is a golfer in his spare time (when he has put his buckets of water down, of course)?” – Charlie AshmoreRe: yesterday’s Quote of the Day. I was prescribed Sudocrem once for a heat rash. The more I applied, the redder I got. Turned out I was allergic to something in the cream. If the same applies to Horndean FC, they could end up looking like they had their backsides slapped all season” – Andrew.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...