Too many questions cling to perennial No 2
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- Too many questions cling to perennial No 2
- Museum opens new exhibit
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Too many questions cling to perennial No 2
Telegraph.co.uk – Feb 5, 2006
McClaren’s credentials as a husband are irrelevant; it is his ability as a manager that need judging. The gut feeling remains that the individual England need most from the Riverside now is Stewart Downing, not McClaren. The Yorkshireman fits the hastily-reassembled FA blueprint of a home-grown coach who can groom a home-grown successor. So expect Peter Taylor, Stuart Pearce and, eventually, Alan Shearer, to appear at England training sessions. Yet the FA miss the point; they are not supposed to be appointing a technical director charged with developing young English coaches, but a national team manager whose sole job is to win tournaments. If the England manager’s job was to nurture coaches, then one is at a loss to understand the job spec of Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA’s director of football development. The one thing Soho Square got right with Scolari is that they were keen to appoint an outstanding manager focused on ending 40-plus years of hurt.
Museum opens new exhibit
Brazosport Facts – Brazosport Facts (subscription) – Feb 5, 2006
Works in the exhibit are two- and three-dimensional pieces and include drawings, paintings and photographs as well as craft and folk art. A museum committee selected the works of art to exhibit and gave priority selection to artwork that reflects Brazoria County