This is a football post, but I do promise to link it with politics later. I think that the Football Association should definitely back Steve McClaren, we now have an English manager which I think is a very positive thing. Furthermore, McClaren has barely had any time to stamp his mark on the job, he needs time and he needs our support. He is a highly intelligent manager, don’t forget when he first moved to Manchester United within 6months they won the treble, and went from strength to strength. In addition, when he was manager at Middlesbrough, it took him time to get the side playing the way he wanted and eventually after a few years, he led them to a Uefa Cup Final. Furthermore, Sven had a great start he won his first five games, and within a year beat Germany 5-1 in 2001, look where we ended up five years later, and three successive failures at quarter final stages. This demonstrates that quick results mean nothing, I have no doubt that McClaren in time will get it right, but for now he needs our backing and not barracking!
Supporters of the national team are a bit like some of the grass roots Conservative supporters are desperate for results quickly, except with the grass roots it is all about policies. Same with the media. These things require time, effort and planning, at first a lot of people said Cameron would need to come out with hard policies to keep the original ‘bump’ in the polls going. With us having a continual lead at the moment at an average of eight points in the polls he has been proved right. In some ways, he could not arguably have timed it better, there is this idea that Brown will seem more substantial than Cameron when he becomes Prime Minister. However, as soon as this happens probably in June, Brown will have his oxygen for a while, but in time the policies group will report and this will allow Cameron then to come out and bring his own substance to the arena, to combat that of Browns. If we already had a detailed set of policies which some were calling for a year ago, we would have nothing fresh to combat Brown against, or he would have just nicked all of our good ideas anyway.
This is why the people at the top of their professions, should be given time to get things right, if there was an underlying problem with the Conservative party, as there now is with the England team, there is no quick fix it, if there was it would undoubtedly fail in the long term as it did with Sven. People should show their loyalty to the party as well as the nation, as the people in charge know what they are doing, of course opinions should be advocated as that what makes politics and football so great as their is different views. However, they should still back their side in terms of giving it the best platform to go on and succeed.
