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The farce that is the FA and why they should all resign

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Pablo Luna - Moonlighting for Betfair

I cannot describe my feelings with regards to those back scratching faceless chinless wonders posing as The Football Association in Soho.

These men, who oversee our game, have never played professional football and are not fit or qualified to select the manager of England. They are more concerned with their private empire building and have no real understanding of what is required or needed.

I would make a new body or panel to oversee appointments to the national team and they would come from a professional football background and not television and sales etc. They would have the stomach to pick the best man and not the safe hand.

I lay the blame firmly at the feet of Brian 'Tommy Cooper' Barwick, the FA chief executive, for the most recent debacle regarding the appointment of Steve 'cheesy smile' McClaren. We now know that he was not the first choice for the job. I wanted the first choice - Luiz Felipe Scolari.

Most true sport fans generally accept that either of the other candidates who included O'Neill, Curbishley or Allardyce would have been a better choice.

The Scolari affair showed Barwick up to be the buffoon that he is and he should have resigned his post and apologised to the nation for his clumsiness. It made English football a laughing stock around the world.

The biggest crime the FA, Erikson and McClaren are guilty of is that we have wasted a generation of really good players and a great opportunity. We have not learned any lessons and have not gone forward. It is true we always have overly high expectations before a big tournament but for a country like ours to have only got to one final is a terrible indictment of our planning and selection.

Presumably you would think that the FA wanted the same thing as us, the best manager and team representing England in the Euro 2008 (currently 11.5 on Betfair) so why would you employ a man partly responsible for the debacle of the last World Cup.

Quick reminders of those events include the Theo Walcott selection. It beggars belief that a boy (17 years old) who had zero experience in the game could be selected ahead of Darren Bent, Jermain Defoe and others. Taking unfit players was also a huge mistake. A tournament will find out any player who is not fit.

And what about taking the WAGS to the World Cup, how in the blazes can these self-obsessed shopaholics help us win a football match? They were a distraction and a ruddy nuisance!

The complete mess otherwise known as our midfield was shambolic and never addressed, even worse that McClaren is no further forward 5 years later. In fact he can be seen stumbling around pitifully, begging former international players to come out of retirement, what a joke that is! I wonder what Geoff Hurst is doing these days?

Some players have called him a great coach but there is absolutely no evidence to support this! Oh, hang on, I think he once won a game with Middlesborough.

I can't wait to see who the next manager will be after Euro 2008, I wonder who the FA will choose - Sven? Argghhhh ..........