You may remember, in January, Paul Merson courted scorn with an utterly mad diatribe at the newly-appointed Hull City manager, Marco Silva. Complaining "why has it always got t be a foreign manager", Merson dismissed Silva's managerial achievements - these included winning seventeen games in a row in a league-winning season with Olympiakos - as being a quirk of the Greek fixture list.
Harry Redknapp is the latest to complain about the lack of opportunities for English managers at top clubs, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live. Redknapp has been basking in his achievement in keeping Birmingham City in the Championship and went on the Beeb to complain about the lack of opportunities for English managers at the top of the Premier League.
He went on to say that the likes of David Moyes was doomed by the poor quality of players at his disposal ay Sunderland, saying that league-winning manager Antonio Conte would have been relegated with Sunderland, and that no manager would have done better at Burnley than Sean Dyche.
You can watch it below:
"Conte wouldn't have kept Sunderland up"
Harry @Redknapp says foreign managers are 'no better' than English counterparts: pic.twitter.com/QOvdLoCTdy
— BBC 5 live Sport (@5liveSport) May 9, 2017
