posted Sep 27, 2007

I've never understood why it is a requirement of the Premier League, that managers are supposed to be qualified coaches.

They are two distinctly different areas of ability. Although there's no reason that a good coach should not be a good manager and vice versa, equally there's no reason that he should.

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posted Sep 27, 2007

None whatsover, I've yet to see a badge learn anything and as for coaching one!

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posted Sep 27, 2007

HOW ABOUT IT IS THE LAW! CUT AND DRY

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posted Sep 27, 2007

ARIZONANISCHOW ..ABOUT IT IS THE LAW! CUT AND DRY



Theres nothing cut and dry about the law, otherwise OJ would,nt of been running around the golf courses.

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posted Sep 27, 2007

Why have coaching badges if the authorities don't care whether people have them or not. Also why have badges in the first place, if the club feel that their manager is good enough to manage them then why should he need a coaching badge.

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posted Sep 27, 2007

I see the point in the badges for an individual but there is no point making them a requirement.
1 - A club/manager will always find a way round them (Glenn Reoder, Gareth Southgate)
2 - If a club wants to risk themselves on an a manager with no real qualifications and hahahaha almost got Isreal to world Cup. Thats their risk not the governing bodies.

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posted Sep 27, 2007

Exactly! The other 19 Premier League clubs and those in the CL should be rubbing their hands if they think that some mug without a badge is nothing to worry about!

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posted Sep 27, 2007

comment by notmyrealname
posted 5 Hours Ago

I thought managers with 10yrs experience didn't need to get this qualification.
Avram Grant has much more than that.

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If you count being coaching at a very low standard as ten years experience, managers like Capello & Lippi must be way toooo qualified for the Chelsea position. He needs a coaching badge because he's never coached a decent team, the whole point of the badges was to stop people like Grant coaching teams like Chelsea.

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posted Sep 28, 2007

This decision, and the many more instances of this over the past few years (Southgate, Roeder etc) just makes a mockery of the whole thing. What's the point in having the law there if everytime a club wants to appoint an unqualified coach they just get given special dispensation to do so? A precedent has been set for this now, and any decision other than allowing an unqualified coach to continue managing a team is just going to result in appeals.

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posted Sep 28, 2007

Hey ho - all this fuss over attending a course. It is not a pass-fail test, you just turn up and act interested. Anyone concerned that Alex Ferguson hasn't got one, or Manure now untouchable?

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