A 33-year mystery: one of the Premier League’s biggest anomalies | OneFootball

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This Monday afternoon, Liverpool paraded through the streets to celebrate its English championship title. A savory moment for Arend "Arne" Slot, who has officially become the first Dutch coach to win a Premier League title.

This unprecedented triumph of the Liverpool coach is a good excuse to bring up one of the biggest anomalies in modern football. To date, no English coach has won the Premier League. Never ever.

Since the formal establishment of the Premier League in May 1992, two Scottish coaches have been able to taste the championship (Sir Alex Ferguson and Kenny Dalglish with Manchester United and Blackburn, respectively), but the sad truth remains that no English coach has managed to win the title.

This raises the debate about the intrinsic quality of "made in England" coaches.

These managerial shortcomings explain the appointment of foreign coaches to lead the Three Lions over the decades (notably Fabio Capello and Sven Goran Eriksson).

Recently, the appointment of German Thomas Tuchel as the head of the English national team has only corroborated this theory.

Another damning fact: no club in the Big Six is managed by an English coach (the last was Graham Potter, who did not last long at Chelsea). Even traditionalist Tottenham has resorted to an Australian technician (Ange Postecoglou) to try to regain its former luster.

England, a great football nation devoid of great coaches? A paradox that persists.

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