"Och Harry, ah'm skint, cannae get any bawbies ootae Bill, any tips fae wheeler-dealin'?"
"Fack orf, I'm a fackin' football manager!"
On May 10, 2005, in the Liverpool Daily Post, the manager of the Everton Football Club Company Limited, Mr. David Moyes, had this to say, regarding his expectations for the future of the football club:
"I don't mind if people expect a lot from us, not one bit. That has always been one of my objectives - to raise expectations here. This season we had no expectation but I wouldn't want that to be the norm. I want people, the fans, whoever to expect Everton to be challenging for things. Otherwise, I am not doing my job."
Five and a half years later, and Mr. Moyes now opines thus on the same subject:
"I think we have to be careful in what we believe Everton are capable of achieving"
Oh, dear. Five and a half years, and Mr. David Moyes has gone from ambitions of scaling the lofty heights of the English Premier League to paving the way for the club's better players to be sold to appease the bank. However, despite the seemingly endless adversity, much of which has been engendered by the antics of the club's chairman and board of directors, Mr. Moyes hangs on in there. Many have marvelled at his tenaciousness and loyalty as the ship sails towards the iceberg, and remark on the evident closeness between him and his chairman. I, personally, never cease to be surprised at just what loyalty can be garnered by the simple application of a small stipend of £3,000,000 per annum.
So, what, one wonders, would tempt Mr. Moyes away from the indulgent, ingenuous, avuncular, ever-popular man of the people, Mr. William Kenwright CBE? Well, it has been mooted on several occasions that Mr. Moyes would succeed the manager of The Tottenham Hotspurs Football Club Company Limited, Mr. Henry J. Redknapp, on the occasion of the latter man's "inevitable" gravitation towards being the General Manager of "Team England", following the departure of Sgr. Fabio Capello.
However, this has given me cause to ponder... What, if anything, disbarrs Mr. Moyes from applying for the position of manager of "Team England" himself?
It would be a marvellous appointment by the Football Association mandarins; a manager with a good track record, performing miracles on scant resources to produce teams who perform above the level expected by the sum of the parts, a man who has displayed unquestioning loyalty to his employers in the most trying of circumstances, and (perhaps best of all for the Football Association) without a whiff of salacious scandal around him, unlike some spivs we could mention.
For Mr. Moyes, too, it should be a lucrative move; a salary way in excess of even his current one, without the worry of having to sell off his better players to balance the books. Plus, idiotic though the Football Association's committee are, he has surely dealt with worse individuals for the past 12 years.
The obvious stumbling block is the fact that Mr. Moyes is a "proud Scot"; but, as he has recently demonstrated, such principles come cheap. Parity with the £5,000,000-plus annual stipend currently awarded to Sgr. Fabio Capello should quash any such unease, and then some, one should have thought. And at least he is reasonably proficient in English, and will not blame the Football Association for the inevitable failings of "Team England".
I feel that his case is compelling, and that he should "clinic" his Curriculum Vitae in readiness for the call from Sir Trevor Brookin', or somebody of that ilk.
What do others think?
It would be a marvellous appointment by the Football Association mandarins; a manager with a good track record, performing miracles on scant resources to produce teams who perform above the level expected by the sum of the parts, a man who has displayed unquestioning loyalty to his employers in the most trying of circumstances, and (perhaps best of all for the Football Association) without a whiff of salacious scandal around him, unlike some spivs we could mention.
For Mr. Moyes, too, it should be a lucrative move; a salary way in excess of even his current one, without the worry of having to sell off his better players to balance the books. Plus, idiotic though the Football Association's committee are, he has surely dealt with worse individuals for the past 12 years.
The obvious stumbling block is the fact that Mr. Moyes is a "proud Scot"; but, as he has recently demonstrated, such principles come cheap. Parity with the £5,000,000-plus annual stipend currently awarded to Sgr. Fabio Capello should quash any such unease, and then some, one should have thought. And at least he is reasonably proficient in English, and will not blame the Football Association for the inevitable failings of "Team England".
I feel that his case is compelling, and that he should "clinic" his Curriculum Vitae in readiness for the call from Sir Trevor Brookin', or somebody of that ilk.
What do others think?
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