Massimo Maccarone takes a swipe at 'two-faced' McClaren

aidan24326

Anyone else hear about Massimo Maccarone's scathing attack on Steve McLaren during the week?

An example:

Maccarone wrote:

THE ever-smiling Steve "Magnificent" McClaren is without doubt the most two-faced and false person that I have ever had the misfortune to meet in football, who should first spend his time actually trying to understand his own players' mentality instead of wasting so much time trying to understand the English press

Only in England could such a man with such obvious and limited abilities be made national coach

Unusual for a player to be quite so personal in criticising a former manager.
I think his reference to the English press is partly in reference to McClaren's studying of Tony Blair's question time at the house of commons, and how a skilled politician deals with (and evades) questions.

Whatever happened to the days when a national manager spent his time watching games rather than observing how slippery eels like Blair talk their way out of tightspots?

Whatever about Maccarone's personal views on McClaren's character, I do agree that he was a strange choice as England manager given his almost total lack of success at club level and his central role in the absolute joke that was the Erikkson era. After that whole fiasco (a terrible world cup, the Walcott nonsense etc.) they ought to have cleared out all involved in the coaching and management setup.

jesus_thats_gre

McClaren does seem to be pretty poor in fairness.

KdjaCL

lyon swipe at Carew

Other way round with this one.

Seems to be just bitterness from players and clubs.

kdjac