Premiership managers voted him the best in the league last year, six of England’s eleven managers have been former England players (Keegan, Venables, Hoddle, Robson, Revie and Ramsey), and his current Reading side consists mostly of home grown talent. But this season has seen a marked dropped in fortune (can the FA turn their blindest eye to Reading’s horrific defensive "frailties"?) and the wide open spaces of his trophy cabinet are looking wider as the weeks go by.
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Where did it all go wrong? We take a look at the reason for the failure of McClaren's England
