Everywhere we seem to look today, or listen, Luiz Felipe Scolari, has allegedly been offered the job. After leading Brazil in the 2002 World Cup, he moved on to Portugal, where he has made a great impact, and will ,we're sure, be sorely missed if he is to come to England after the World Cup in Germany.
Many people will be a little miffed as to why the FA did not offer the post to an Englishman, but the chance to get one of World football's most experienced managers looked to be too much to pass by.
Should Phil take the job, then there will be a few other managers that could be looking for higher profile jobs, ad of course there is martin O'Neill who is still out of work.
We're going to be having a few bets now as to the next england manager (whenever that may be, plus it's not too late for this time, you'll get some good odds after the news today, Phil may still not come!), will be. We might start to see some of the English guys looking for more experience, will Curbishley stay at Charlton, Allardyce at Bolton, Pardew at West Ham and so on, plus, it's widely expected that now Alan Shearer's playing days are behind him, that he will step up into a coaching role. Let's not forget the last English manager to lift the World Cup, Sir Clive Woodward - different sport maybe, but now he's involved at Southampton, who knows? He as made no secret about his desire to lift the football world cup with England as well, you read it here first (maybe), but we bet there are really good odds out there at the moment!
Finally for the moment, we will be behind Phil if he accepts the job, and think he will be a great manager, let's hope the media do not interfere too much.
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