Clark wants locals considered
The League Managers’ Association has urged the Football Association to show confidence in some of the outstanding graduates of their own coaching development schemes by at least considering them as a replacement for Sven-Goran Eriksson.
The Swede will leave the England job after this summer’s World Cup and the search is now on to find his successor.
The LMA believe the Barclays Premiership contains some “outstanding English candidates” for the job and argue that a grounding in the FA coaching system should be seen as a seal of quality by the governing body’s decision-makers.
LMA vice-chairman Frank Clark said: “We would hope the very least (the FA) will do is consider some of our members who have come through the English FA’s own coaching and development system.
“We have worked very hard on the training and development of our managers and coaches and really the pinnacle of that whole pyramid is the England team manager’s job.
“I also happen to think there are some very good English candidates out there and certainly that some of the outstanding candidates are at least considered.”
