Managing England; The Impossible Job

[jayjayoghani]

think we got to the bottom before of Liverpool and English players. Late 70's/early 80's they had loads. By mid 80's they'd been purged

Edited June 27, 2018 by jayjayoghani

[MalcolmW]

think we got to the bottom before of Liverpool and English players. Late 70's/early 80's they had loads. By mid 80's they'd been purged

 

There were 9 English in the '77 team plus one Welsh and one (Anglo-)Irish.

'78 had 8 English and 3 Scottish, with 2 of the English not in the previous year.

Forest had 8 English in '79 with 3 Scottish. Another Englishman played in '80.

[Winchester White]

So, British then?

[Zico]

Liverpools 86 cup winning side:

 

 

GK 1 Zimbabwe Bruce Grobbelaar

CB 2 Republic of Ireland Mark Lawrenson

LB 3 Republic of Ireland Jim Beglin

RB 4 Scotland Steve Nicol

LM 5 Republic of Ireland Ronnie Whelan

CB 6 Scotland Alan Hansen ©

SS 7 Scotland Kenny Dalglish

RM 8 Australia Craig Johnston

CF 9 Wales Ian Rush

CM 10 Denmark Jan Mølby

CM 11 Scotland Kevin MacDonald

Substitute:

MF 12 England Steve McMahon

Player-manager:

Scotland Kenny Dalglish

1 Englishmen in the starting line up

 

2 if you spoke like Jan Molby

Edited June 27, 2018 by ZicoKelly

[jayjayoghani]

There were 9 English in the '77 team plus one Welsh and one (Anglo-)Irish.

'78 had 8 English and 3 Scottish, with 2 of the English not in the previous year.

Forest had 8 English in '79 with 3 Scottish. Another Englishman played in '80.

Yes the original discussion was about the quality or potential quality of the England team then.

 

Same discussion after about the "golden generation".

 

I'm spotting a pattern.