Morning all,

Apparently the FA are looking for a new England Manager to take over from Fabio Cappello as he has made it clear that he will not be carrying on after the European Championships.

Ordinarily I wouldn’t take much notice and although I am an Englishman and follow the England team but what caught my attention was that Arsene Wenger’ s Name is being banded about as a fine replacement.

I believe that England probably couldn’t get a better man but I don’t want to lose  the best manager The Arsenal have ever had.

Yes I hear the talk from supporters that have waited for six years without silverware, those supporters are so desperate that many are asking for a new man to lead us. They believe that Wengers time is up with Arsenal and they want a new man in to take over, a man who can lead us to those long-awaited trophies.

Personally, I would rather stick red-hot needles in my eyes than to lose Wenger but the media, pundits, ex players and even out of work ex managers are queuing up to put the Stiletto in Arsenes Back.

Supporters fear that The Arsenal is in free fall and that Arsene Wenger has lost his Magic.

Some have stated that they want the old Wenger back, you know the one, the one that won leagues and FA cups, the one that put a team together to go a full season undefeated, those supporters see that Arsene Wenger to be better than the one we have at present.

I find that very strange, during those six years without trophies as Wenger and the board have moved us from Highbury to The Emirates.

Although we had a lovely little Stadium at Highbury, it housed only half the amount of fans that we boast nowadays and that has increased our overall  earnings by more than double.

Fans ask why are we not buying superstars and winning things?

Sorry but the stadium did not materialise out of thin air, the Government did not buy our stadium for us and spread the cost to everybody that pays their taxes. That cost was down to Arsenal and the fans and they are still paying at the moment.

Proper supporters know the other things that have come along too in that time, training grounds, medical facilities and in that six years of no trophies, I believe that supporters have  overlooked the position of The Arsenal in the league.

Granted we have not won it and we haven’t won the FA Cup or the Carling Cup but what we have done is qualified for the Champions League.

Why does that matter?

Well it matters because UEFA pay £30 million just to qualify and increments as sides go through round by round which with my limited mathematical skills works out at around the 180 to 200 million pound and that has helped to pay for The Emirates Stadium, not to forget the 8 years previously that we also qualified but, as you know, we were winning trophies under the other Wenger then.

One question I would like to ask supporters who are looking for new leadership is, do you not see The Emirates as one of the most important trophies we could ever have?

Every home game we earn gate receipts of over 3 million pounds and if you just want trophies as bragging rights to your mates, throw that figure in, its amazing how that makes them think.

David Moyes has been put forward for a possible replacement if Wenger is enticed away by one of our bloggers, yes, he is a fine manager but what can he give us that we haven’t got already?

Foreign managers have also been  suggested but will they be able to do what Wenger has done? Anyway, that is going off at a tangent!

All the FA need to do is look at the options they have got and I will get to that in just a minute.

The FA have clearly got Wenger in their sights and I have no doubts they have asked him long before now to take up the post and they also have the twitchy fellow down the road who would sell his wife to get that position but who has so far been overlooked.

Talk Sport were saying the other day that David Beckham was also a possibility for the England post!

David Beckham a good English player but what does he know about managing?

The name that springs to my mind is Stuart Pearce, yes Pearce, the guy that’s been coaching and managing the England under 21’s for the last few years, he also sits in on all of the senior games and prepares the subs to come on as Fabio has trouble explaining his tactics to them.

Pearce has been involved in English football as a player, he was brave and dedicated, would run through walls and was proud to wear the three Lions on his chest. He has been involved with all the new English talent coming through, he has nurse maided them, wiped their noses and been in touch with all their clubs and managers.

He’s also in the know about all the current senior players, he has watched previous managers and this current one included.

In an interview on Talk Sport he ruled himself out of the post as he believes he is too inexperienced to run the senior team, all i can say to that is, what can the FA say to that comment?

They can say that he is more experienced than any of the other English managers who would jump at the chance, surely a young English manager who has been around the future of the English team, used to playing internationals, knows how to present himself to the media and also a man of passion, a man who played with passion and I believe he would manage in the same way.

Above all, he’s English and if your old enough which he is, he’s experienced enough and I think he is.

So, my message to the FA is, Go pick the man who ticks very box and leave our manager alone!

Written by Steve Palmer