In Response to Lew.

Lew put up a post saying would we swap Arry for Mourinho, Here is my response.

Harry Redknapp exposes folly of fad for foreign managers


By Oliver Holt



Footballer of the Year is easy this time: Wayne Rooney.
Manager of the Season is a bit more difficult. Carlo Ancelotti would
have a claim, particularly if Chelsea win the Double for the first
time.
Sir Alex Ferguson would have backers, too, if Manchester United win
the title again and make it four in a row.
And there’s Roy Hodgson for leading Fulham to the semi-finals of the
Europa League and beating Juventus along the way.
But my vote would go to Harry Redknapp for the job he’s done at
Spurs and for what he represents.




Redknapp is four games away from loosening the stranglehold on the
Champions League places.
His team is fresh from back-to-back wins over Arsenal and Chelsea as
they prepare to head north to take on United at Old Trafford on
Saturday.
And they are two points ahead of Manchester City and five ahead
ofLiverpool with a game in hand in the race for fourth. Spurs, let’s not
forget, were bottom of the Premier League when Redknapp took over from
Juande Ramos at the end of October 2008.
And the transformation, both in confidence and style, in the 18
months since has been startling.
But there is a wider point to what Redknapp has achieved at White
Hart Lane as well.
Because he’s a British boss, he’s a rebuke to the continuing fashion
for entrusting foreign managers with our top clubs.
He’s proof that even though many foreign managers win their jobs in
English football on merit, their British counterparts are too often
denied the chance to show what they can do.
Manchester City won the prize for that kind
of snobbery this season with the premature sacking of Mark Hughes and
the decision to replace him with Roberto Mancini, who has done no
better.
Redknapp recognises the problem and the fact the odds are stacked
against British bosses.
“I like Carlo Ancelotti,” Redknapp said yesterday. “He is a smashing
bloke and he seems like a top manager.
“But with the same players and the same resources, David Moyes could
have done the job at Chelsea. Moyes served his apprenticeship at
Preston and he has done an outstanding job at Everton. There is no
reason why he couldn’t have led Chelsea to the top of the table.
“But I still think when the big jobs come up, the leading clubs will
look for foreign managers.
“Why? Well, we are getting more foreign owners. They read about big
names, great European players from the past and they are attracted by
their reputation.
“I know people have been talking about who’s in the frame for the
United job when Alex decides to call it a day and it’s the same thing.
“It’s Capello, it’s Guardiola, it’s Mourinho, it’s Wenger, it’s
Hiddink. Why isn’t Moyes considered a candidate?
“Steve Bruce should be in there, too. He’s done a good job at
Sunderland. He knows United, he’s been a player there.
“People just need a chance. Look at Chris Hughton at Newcastle.
People said he couldn’t do it, that he’d always be a No.2. Look at the
job he’s done.”
Redknapp, like Moyes, Bruce, Martin O’Neill at Aston Villa and Tony
Pulis at Stoke, has proved he can manage big-name players from different
backgrounds and nations. Luka Modric has thrived under him. He has
begun to get the best out of Heurelho Gomes. Even Roman Pavlyuchenko has
turned into a goal machine under Redknapp.
And he’s married their talents with the best of British: Gareth
Bale, Jermain Defoe, Peter Crouch and Michael Dawson. And, until Aaron
Lennon was injured, Redknapp had conjured the best performances of his
career from him.
There are some who patronise Redknapp as a cheeky chappie, a Cockney
gabbler who can’t mix with the sophisticates from abroad.
But those critics are very much in the minority now. Most recognise
that because there is so much snobbery against British coaches, the game
here didn’t give Redknapp his shot at the big time until he was 61.
Now we know the big time suits him. Same as it would suit Moyes,
Bruce and the rest of the ignored British bosses.
It’s time to give them their chance, too.

i agree either harry or hodson should get manager of the year.