Should the England manager be a pundit on TV?

Is that right? I don’t think so. I say that, not because I don’t like McLaren or think he isn’t good enough to be England manager. As it goes I don’t think he is good enough, but if it was him or Allardyce (as was apparently the choice for the FA), I say: Thank God for McLaren, but that’s for another column. There is a part of me that wants McLaren to succeed, because I think he is an honest man, probably a good coach, and he obviously loves the game. But as the Americans might say: ‘Nice guys come second.’ I think it is wrong for the England manager to be publicly commenting on mat...