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England expects

Nov 22nd, 2007 by Bert

Apologies for the aftertiming, but what was McClaren playing at last night? I’m no expert on football, but yesterday’s game was the most important and high pressure game played in England for years - on occasions like this experience carries a lot of weight and youthful exuberance very little. I spent most of yesterday puzzling why Scott Carson was in the line up and David Beckham wasn’t, concluding in the evening that it was because the manager didn’t know his business.

I would normally be sticking up for the manager on a day like this, because in general I think we judge managers far too much on results and far too quickly, but in McClaren’s case I’ll make an exception as I’m reasonably confident that he hasn’t got what it takes. An England manager is a very different job to a club manager, and again age and experience should carry more weight than they would at club level. My man for the job would be big Phil Scolari, not everyone’s cup of tea but ticks the boxes for me.

Questions have to be asked of the directors, who again have unnecessarily given a pile of money to a manager who has only served out a small amount of his contracted time.

Ours runs tomorrow at Ascot - we are looking for proper improvement from last time at Chepstow.

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6 Responses to “England expects”

on 22 Nov 2007 at 7:27 pm1J Thomas

what does ‘proper’ im provement mean? will you be backing him?
on 23 Nov 2007 at 6:31 am2The Gambler.

Lets guess “yes”.
Andrew, I don’t know if you have time to check out othe blogs.
Man of Mystery is a great one. He runs a bot on betfair. He also has set up a radio station WUBT. He has interviewed various traders/bloggers. Yesterday he interviewed Peter Webb from Bet Angel. I thought it was great. He would love to interwiew you if you were up for it.
I am sure he will try and contact you at some point, so I will leave you both to get in contact with each other, if you can be persuaded to go public.
The blogosphere and the general punters would be very interested in your story.
BTW also, has anyone thought about writing a book about Betfair or your good self. I am sure it would sell well, and it is a good idea to capture the history before it is all forgotten.

Check out his blog if you get
on 23 Nov 2007 at 7:12 am3The Gambler.

Sorry to hog your blog btw, but check out mine one day. This mornings post.

The Betfair Revolution.
Some people think it is just about gambling. They know not what they talk about. It has changed the world.
We now have for an international community of gamblers/traders that talk to each other on a daily basis.
We talk about gambling. We talk about life. Occasionally we talk about how to make the world a better place. Without Betfair this would not have been possible.
Some of us have different political views, but through the Betfair forum, and the wonderful world of the blogosphere, we chat, we converse, we exchange ideas, and occasionally come to some sort of consensus.
Without betfair I would not be doing this.
Eventually the betfair model will probably take over FTSE/Nasdaq/etc. It will have an impact on the world financial system.
Eventually the US will change its gambling laws allowing companies like betfair to live long and prosper. This will have a profound effect on the social psyche of USA, and in turn the the world.
When Andrew Black and others came up with this idea, they thought they were just changing gambling, but they were just about to change the world. Frightening scary but true.

Posted on 11/23/2007 at 05:44 AM in Diary | Permalink | Comments (0)
on 23 Nov 2007 at 12:48 pm4Bert

JT,

I probably won’t back him - Nick is a lot happier with him but I’d like to see the evidence myself and I don’t think we know a lot about the horse yet. I’ll be watching with interest.

TG,

I’ll reply when I have a little more time - have to rush off to Ascot now.
on 23 Nov 2007 at 10:54 pm5The Gambler.

Cheers Sir,
Good Luck.
on 15 Dec 2007 at 3:53 am6The Gambler.

Now you are having a sabbatical you may reply if you like.
Did not realise you were about to launch Tradefair when I made these remarks. :-).

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