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Paul Campbell

'I don't know what I'm doing here': which England managers gave these quotes?

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate has taken the top job after working as a doorman at No10. Photograph: Kirst Wigglesworth/PA
  1. Who said this about Sven-Goran Eriksson: "We were expecting Winston Churchill and instead we got Iain Duncan-Smith"?

    1. Glenn Hoddle

    2. Stuart Pearce

    3. Gareth Southgate

    4. Kevin Keegan

  2. Who said: "People want success. It's like coffee, they want instant"?

    1. Fabio Capello

    2. Bobby Robson

    3. Glenn Hoddle

    4. Graham Taylor

  3. Who said this about his England team: "They’ve done everything that we told them not to do – everything that we told them not to do"?

    1. Graham Taylor

    2. Kevin Keegan

    3. Steve McClaren

    4. Peter Taylor

  4. Who said: "I don't really know what I'm doing here"?

    1. Graham Taylor

    2. Kevin Keegan

    3. Joe Mercer

    4. Roy Hodgson

  5. Who said: "I never heard a minute's silence like that" in 1997?

    1. Roy Hodgson

    2. Bobby Robson

    3. Glenn Hoddle

    4. Don Revie

  6. Who said this about twinkle-toed Leeds winger Eddie Gray: "When he plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints"?

    1. Don Revie

    2. Alf Ramsey

    3. Ron Greenwood

    4. Joe Mercer

  7. Who said: "If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen"?

    1. Terry Venables

    2. Steve McClaren

    3. Roy Hodgson

    4. Gareth Southgate

  8. Who said this about the lack of English players in the top flight: "One of the matches I went to watch was Arsenal v Manchester City and, because there were Scottish, Irish and Welsh players in both teams, there were only five players out of the 22 that I could select"?

    1. Alf Ramsey

    2. Walter Winterbottom

    3. Ron Greenwood

    4. Don Revie

  9. Who said this about his rock n roll credentials: "I’m on the inside sleeve of a punk album by The Lurkers called God’s Lonely Men. The picture was taken at the Marquee Club in London in the late 1970s."

    1. Roy Hodgson

    2. Gareth Southgate

    3. Fabio Capello

    4. Stuart Pearce

  10. Who summarised his temperament by saying: "I am not one to jump over the moon or off a cliff"?

    1. Sam Allardyce

    2. Steve McClaren

    3. Sven-Goran Eriksson

    4. Alf Ramsey

  11. Who said: "I can’t stand the crap that gets talked by everyone – players, fans, the media, club officials. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me?"

    1. Fabio Capello

    2. Sam Allardyce

    3. Glenn Hoddle

    4. Kevin Keegan

Solutions

1:C, 2:B, 3:A, 4:D - He said it after he had resigned but could have said it a few times before that., 5:C - He was speaking after Princess Diana's death., 6:A, 7:A, 8:B - Winterbottom was in charge from 1946 until 1962, 9:D - Pearce took charge of the England team once, in 2012. They lost, 10:D, 11:A

Scores

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