The LMA, and all our managers, will be doing our best to support the England team and the FA in pursuit of success in the World Cup.

But I needed the right club to come back to. People could have looked at me and thought Bradford was a fluke. The next job needed to be a success.

I'm not against England having a foreign manager. But I do want somebody with some passion for the English team and for English pride.

The whole system and pattern of play under Sven is flawed. We seem to have lost the plot,

Twenty eight years ago we were playing non-league football and now we are in a cup final.

We would have released him at Christmas or at the end of the season if someone had come in for him.

Roberto Martinez's belief is unbelievable

I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win the World Cup.

If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.

We were very close to signing Michael Owen,