For me it's a bad decision, Middlesbrough may have had a few good cup runs but they've hardly set the Premiership alight this year, add to that the fact that Roma murdered them for most of each game we played. They may have won, but if England are going to get hammered like that every game they may not have the same luck!
I'd have preferred Scolari, OK, he didn't want it, but McLaren for me is, as has been said on this thread already, the new Graham Taylor. At least Graham Taylor had a good club record to soften the blow of international humiliation with.
Ah well, give the guy a chance at least!
Originally posted by Dixon Bainbridgewell, in terms of trophies do you mean the carling/league cup. A cup that some of the major teams simply "ignore".
I played for Boro under 12's and they were crap then. 1989. How the hell they have won a trophy before Newcastle is beyond me. pfffffft.
Plus middlesborough didn't have the great manager of Graeme Souness.