‘In my opinion, Hoddle did not have enough of a clue to be appointed England manager. Where had he been as a manager?
He had a bit of success at Swindon, taking them to the top flight, and three years at Chelsea, where he spent quite a lot of money and left them exactly where he found them - in the middle of the Premiership. That was no apprenticeship to qualify him for the top job in the country.
If promotion with Swindon and keeping Chelsea in 11th place qualifies a man to lead England on a campaign against the Germans, Argentinians and French, then a bloke who can make a paper aeroplane is qualified to pilot a jumbo jet.’
Clough’s biography is being serialised in The Sun