Redknapp will not be only candidate
• New manager might not be English, says Bernstein• FA says it will take its time to chose right manBy the time David Bernstein took his seat a little scrap of paper had already been torn out of somebody's notebook and placed on the desk in front o...
Where does the FA go from here to find a new England manager?
What are the options available to the England football body?What happens now?The Football Association chairman, David Bernstein, the general secretary Alex Horne, the director of football development Sir Trevor Brooking and the Club England managing di...
FA could bring in England manager solely for Euro 2012
• 'All options are open', says FA chairman David Bernstein• Harry Redknapp will not be the only candidateThe Football Association is contemplating replacing Fabio Capello by bringing in a new England manager purely for Euro 2012 and then appointing...
Milan Mandaric on Harry Redknapp
The Sheffield Wednesday chairman feels sure his one-time employee has the qualities to succeed with EnglandFor myself, the verdicts at the court were the right thing; for Harry Redknapp, well, somebody was clearly writing the script for a beautiful lif...
David Bernstein’s unapologetic stance befits a man growing in power
The FA chairman David Bernstein has an appetite for swift and robust action by taking on Fabio Capello and winningThere was, insisted a defiant Football Association chairman David Bernstein, "nothing" he would have done differently in handling the comp...
Footballers’ Spring launched by revolting players | Harry Pearson
The use of the phrase common sense in the context of Joey Barton has created a paradigm shiftThis week the attorney general appeared on BBC radio and used the term "common sense" in the context of Joey Barton. To many listeners this preposterous event ...
Villas-Boas does not fear sack
• Roman Abramovich takes hands-on approach • John Terry will be missing again this weekend"Short, accurate and precise." André Villas-Boas chose these words not to describe the style of a hitman, but his meetings over the past six days with Roman ...
Milan Mandaric: ‘I would be lying if I said it isn’t hurting me’
The Sheffield Wednesday owner says the police had an agenda to get into corruption in football but this case wasn't anything near to thatThe morning after his 13 days before in the glass-walled dock at Southwark crown court, Milan Mandaric, 73 and free...
You are the Ref: Arsène Wenger, Arsenal
Click to enlarge, and debate the strip below the line. Keith Hackett's verdict appears in Sunday's Observer and here from Monday.Competition: win an official club shirt of your choiceFor a chance to win a club shirt of your choice from the range at Kit...
Football Weekly Extra: What next?
Well, what a show we have for you today. In fact, some of it was so above average that we filmed it.James Richardson's got Barry Glendenning, Amy Lawrence and John Ashdown on hand to discuss the England national team's escalating crisis. Fabio Capello...
FA gang of four smoothly see off Capello without McClaren seven’s rage | Rob Bagchi
The FA faced none of the inquisition endured when Steve McClaren left when it came to the departure of his successorA measure of how far the Football Association has progressed over the past four and a half years was the stark contrast in tone and prof...
In praise of … foreign managers | Editorial