Hope is all that England football needs

England manager | Bath rugby | Sweet damsons | Retirement tips | Ed BallsThe answer to the current England manager dilemma is clear. Hope Powell, England’s most successful manager in recent years, strikes us as the best candidate for the job. A ground-breaking athlete, she is used to working in challenging circumstances, has extensive knowledge of the FA and has the additional bonus of no whiff of scandal anywhere near her. Indeed her appointment would go some way to making up for the 1921 ban on women’s football as “quite unsuitable for females”. We feel she would be an ideal candidate to uni…