A Snapshot of the Premier League table

After match day 13, Palace vs Sunderland game still to play

1. Leicester - foreign manager
2. Man United - foreign
3. Man City - foreign
3. Arsenal - foreign
5. Tottenham - foreign
6. West Ham - foreign
7. Everton - foreign
8. Southampton - foreign
9. Liverpool - foreign
10. Crystal Palace - world citizen
11. Stoke - British
12. West Brom - British
13. Watford - foreign
14. Swansea - British
15. Chelsea - British (source)
16. Norwich - British
17. Newcastle - British
18. Bournemouth - British
19. Sunderland - British
20. Aston Villa - foreign (having taken over from a British manager 3 weeks ago)

Of course, world citizen Pardew can climb a few places tomorrow. That notwithstanding, the picture is clear. British managers are shit.

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This is like saying water is wet


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Bestestest league on planet imo. Putting FIFA 14 career mode to shame

"20. Aston Villa - foreign (having taken over from a British manager one month ago)"

Shouldn't the same qualifier be used for Liverpool?

I'm not sure how much of this is objectively down to manager quality. Chelsea aside there are no teams in the bottom 10 that I think "This team should be higher if only they had a competent manager". Most of them are where you would expect them to be, with the exception of Chelsea and Leicester, who both have foreign managers.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:"20. Aston Villa - foreign (having taken over from a British manager one month ago)"

Shouldn't the same qualifier be used for Liverpool?

No. That would spoil the agenda. Besides, Liverpool were tenth when Kloppo took over, he closed the ranks to the leading foreign managed bulk.

Also, just noticed Garde is only there for 3 weeks, not a month.

14 premier league titles won by Scotsman. Don't lump them together with the English pretenders

Very enlightening Hans, thanks.

CBarca wrote:Very enlightening Hans, thanks.

Sarcasm?

But in Women Football, an Englishman won the Champions League 2015 as coach of 1.FFC Frankfurt, and they just reached the CL Quarter Final for this season.  

An English manager has never won the EPL.

RealGunner wrote:This is like saying water is wet


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Water isn't wet. Wetness is a description of our experience of water; what happens to us when we come into contact with water in such a way that it impinges on our state of being. We, or our possessions, 'get wet'.

Can't wait when Pardieoux takes over from Wenger and wins the league so all this goes to bed

Brilliant. I love how Pardew is a citizen of the world and Mourinho is english, hehe.