Brian Barwick has revealed an Englishman never stood a chance of being
appointed national team boss.
The Football Association chief executive said he would have preferred to have
a homegrown coach in charge of the England team but insists none of the current
crop are good enough.
Explaining the process that eventually led to Fabio Capello's appointment,
Barwick wrote in the News of the World: 'I wrote out a template and put it
against our current crop of English managers and not one of them ticked all the
boxes.
'So the reality is we can't find a suitable English candidate at present.
'It has to be our ambition to have an English boss, but we have to be
realistic.'
Barwick also confirmed one of the reasons he and FA director of football
development Sir Trevor Brooking went for Capello was the Italian's experience of
handling big egos.
'When a journalist asked me me if I thought Fabio Capello would be the
significant ego in the dressing-room, I just replied, `What do you think?''
