Ok MK so what does Errikson do that is actually close to warranting £4MILLION a YEAR?!? The previous poster was correct when saying that anybody with the faintest of football knowledge could pick the team - and most would probably come out with roughly the same crop of players!
So all he has to do is go to the likes of Highbury, Old Trafford and Anfield twice a month, have a pint with Tord and talk a bit of footie, go home and ###### the missus (chosen at random of course), and then come out every three months and announce a squad that has practically already been picked for you in the national press! Maybe throw a couple of surprises in there to make you look like you have actually done something that someone else couldn't and there you go. Four million pounds please Mr Palios.
Now this would be bad enough if it was an Englishman. But a Swede. Come on now let's please get a grip. Steve McClaren, Steve Bruce, Alan Curbishley, Glen Hoddle to name but a few - I don't think ALL of these candidates are top class but at least they are English, they have at least the same talent as Sven, would all surely be interested, AND MOST OF ALL THEY KEEP THEIR MINDS ON THE JOB INSTEAD OF SHOWING THE PLAYERS A BAD EXAMPLE.
Sack the foreign, money-grabbing waste of space.
So basically it's because he's foreign. Unlike the majority of players and coaches in the Prem, right?
No matter what any fan says, and we all like to dream that we could do a better job than Souey, Woy, Sven or whoever, the fact is: We can't. Not a hope. Never, no way, it ain't gonna happen.
If you or anyone else had the talent to be a football manager then that's what you'd be doing. You wouldn't be sitting in a pub yelling, 'Go to 4-5-1 to neutralise their wingers' or anything else you heard Mark Lawrenson spout, as if you knew what it really meant. By the armchair fan's logic, being an ER fan qualifies you to perform an emergency tracheotomy.
As for the huge salary, that's entirely the FA's fault - and to watch them try to claw their way out of the PR grave they dug before Euro2004 is pretty damn hilarious, as far as I'm concerned.
I hope Sven takes them for every penny they've got.