David Gold tells FA to stop ‘prostituting’ themselves

11 April 2012

West Ham chairman David Gold wants the rules changed to stop the Football Association "prostituting" themselves by hiring another foreign England manager.

Gold disagreed with the appointments of Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello, believing a manager should only be eligible to represent his own country.

Gold, whose club employ Israeli Avram Grant as manager, told TalkSport: "I want to see an England manager. I would love to see the law changed.

"I think the law ought to be that all managers throughout the world have to meet the same criteria the players meet.

"Then you would have an English manager. Most countries choose a manager from their own country. We seem to be bucking the trend all the time.

"It has caused us more grief. Every time we do it there is a furore. We are almost prostituting ourselves when we bring in a manager from another country."

The FA, who replaced Eriksson with Steve McClaren in 2006, have confirmed they will look to appoint an Englishman when Capello leaves the job after the 2012 European Championships.

Harry Redknapp, Steve Bruce and Sam Allardyce have already confirmed they would be interested in taking the job.

Allardyce said: "It's not a young man's game, that's for sure, nor is the Premier League.
"It's very difficult for a less experienced manager to live with the pressure. It's a job you have to have done your apprenticeship for. At England level you can see the pressure. We saw the pressure on Fabio at the World Cup which he had never experienced before."

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Sign up you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy notice .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in