ECB and RFU "worse than bankers"!
This article gets it pretty much spot on for me - it looks at the similarities between the England cricket and football teams, turning success into relative failure. Specifically it says:
"...despite delivering unfettered success, Sir Clive Woodward and Duncan Fletcher were undermined by boards jealous of their prominence. Thus in place of experienced winners, both teams are now led by novices."
I'd add two comments - the captain in cricket plays a huge role, so getting rid of Michael Vaughan was just as big an issue in my book as dismissing Fletcher. And second, I'm not sure that the claim that "no one can claim a shortage of playing talent" is true in rugby. In fact, having just discussed it last night over beers with a friend, I'm sure it's not!
Both the ICC and RFU need to remember in future that the grass is not always greener. As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts...!
3 comments:
moving to a 3rd sport, it's interesting how long fergie was at man u before he won anything, and the top football clubs are mostly settled in terms of manager .chelsea are the exception that proves the rule of course. :-)
The problem is, as The Times pointed out earlier this week, that we still believe that we are naturally winners so that when we lose we hold inquests. What we should do is investigate what we did differently when we win. We should have had an enquiry after the 2005 Ashes not after the 2006-7 ones
They look like geniuses now in comparison with the authorities in The West Indies !
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