He May Be Smiling Now......

From the Guardian's web-site- McClaren the man for England 'This was an opportunity I couldn't refuse'

No wonder he's smiling: McClaren arrives at Soho Square to dot the i's on his ascent to England manager. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP. Steve McClaren was today unveiled as the new England manager, signing a four-year contract at the Football Association's Soho Square headquarters. He will take over from Sven-Goran Eriksson on August 1. McClaren was not the FA's first choice, but after Portugal head coach Luiz Felipe Scolari turned down the job, the Middlesbrough manager was seen as a solid solution. His appointment certainly offers a degree of continuity from the Eriksson regime, since McClaren has served as the Swede's No2 for the last five years and is admired by most of the established England players. There are proverbially only two certainties in life - viz, death and taxes.

Make it three - (3) In two years time Steve McClaren will be hounded out of the England managers job against a backdrop of tabloid headlines reading 'this guy's a fucking turnip','he should never have been appointed', 'get to fuck ya useless waster' etc. McClaren will thereafter require psychiatric care before taking up his new appointment as boss of Hendon Town.