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<blockquote data-quote="Vieux Talonneur" data-source="post: 1136028" data-attributes="member: 73144">Totally agree with that, but dealing with the media is a big part of that job. Largely a honeymoon period at the moment but he will have to deal with some rough stuff at some point.No-one&#039;s trying to take that away from him, he did very well which makes the subsequent performances and souring of relations all the sadder. His relations with the media were a bit chicken and egg though - he also used them for his own purposes and when you do that they inevitably bite back at some point.Definitely at a team level, but I think it&#039;s a bit of both. He&#039;s well into his 60s now. That doesn&#039;t mean he can&#039;t succeed but as you get older, no matter how progressive you&#039;ve been, you tend to fall back on what you know and what has previously worked. Since he took the England job, heck since Japan, society has changed at a frightening pace driven, as it always is, by the young - the generation that he is now trying to influence as a coach. Will he get them and they him? It only gets harder to connect as you get older.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vieux Talonneur, post: 1136028, member: 73144"] Totally agree with that, but dealing with the media is a big part of that job. Largely a honeymoon period at the moment but he will have to deal with some rough stuff at some point. No-one’s trying to take that away from him, he did very well which makes the subsequent performances and souring of relations all the sadder. His relations with the media were a bit chicken and egg though - he also used them for his own purposes and when you do that they inevitably bite back at some point. Definitely at a team level, but I think it’s a bit of both. He’s well into his 60s now. That doesn’t mean he can’t succeed but as you get older, no matter how progressive you’ve been, you tend to fall back on what you know and what has previously worked. Since he took the England job, heck since Japan, society has changed at a frightening pace driven, as it always is, by the young - the generation that he is now trying to influence as a coach. Will he get them and they him? It only gets harder to connect as you get older. [/QUOTE]

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