Thursday, 7 December 2017

Welsh Football Association rule out English managerial appointment!


As a patriotic Englishman who admires the Welsh sense of Nationhood, I was saddened to read the views of the chief executive of the Football Association of Wales Jonathon Ford.  This week he was quoted on the BBC and on the website Football Paradise as saying the next manager of the Welsh team would be: “Welsh most definitely, foreign possibly, but definitely not English”.

I suspect that if the chief executive of the English FA had said the next England team manager would be “English most definitely, foreign possibly, but definitely not Welsh”, all hell would have broken loose around him!  

Here are the links to the reports:   


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42234166

UPDATE 28th December.
According to the Independent it seems that Jonathon Ford is to face a disciplinary commission over his comment that the next Welsh manager will "definitely" not be English.
Here is a link to the newspaper's report:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/faw-wales-next-manager-english-comments-jonathan-ford-disciplinary-comments-a8107341.html


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