
After the acrimonious departure of Sam Allardyce, England's national soccer team is temporarily in the hands of a man who said just three weeks ago that he wasn't ready for such a high pressure job. The English Football Association's preference is that an Englishman coaches the national team, but there's hardly a queue of top-quality candidates. Alan Pardew, Eddie Howe and Steve Bruce are high on the list of bookmakers' favorites to be the next England coach, yet none of them have managed a so-called big club in the Premier League or coached a team in the Champions League.
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