O'Neill doesn't have the UFEA Pro licence either !

[Jimbo 172]

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Should Martin O'Neill take charge of Newcastle United or any other Premiership club he will have to combine the job with studying for his pro-licence coaching badge. Yet the anomalies of the certification system for elite managers dictate that, should O'Neill be made England coach this summer, no such qualification will be necessary.

 

FA Premier League rules require all managers taking jobs in the top division to hold the Uefa pro licence but those already occupying such posts have until 2010. If they fail to obtain the licence within four years they will be dismissed but would then, theoretically, be free to manage England, as that position requires no qualifications.

 

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Of O'Neill's three rivals to succeed Sven-Goran Eriksson, Steve McClaren and Sam Allardyce hold the pro licence and Alan Curbishley has the Uefa A licence, one rung down the ladder. Despite O'Neill's lack of the pro licence, he would be permitted to assume a Premiership post thanks to an exemption negotiated with the Premier League by the League Managers Association three years ago.

 

Selected managers boasting significant years of top-level managerial service were granted until 2010 to obtain the licence, provided they undertook a five-day coaching refresher course and thereby gained the newly created FA coaching diploma. O'Neill completed the refresher during his time at Celtic and, along with his badge-free peers Sir Alex Ferguson and Graeme Souness, was duly cleared to manage in the Premiership until 2010.

 

In contrast, Glenn Roeder will have to step down as Newcastle's caretaker manager two weeks before the end of the season as his lack of the blue-riband qualification bars him from managing a Premiership club for more than 12 weeks. This is despite the fact he boasts previous Premiership experience managing West Ham, holds an A licence and was studying for the pro licence when struck down by a brain tumour three years ago.

 

"We realised it was ridiculous managers of the quality of Sir Alex Ferguson and Martin O'Neill who did not have the pro licence and were not studying for it might be barred from the Premiership," said Frank Clark of the LMA. "So we helped arrange the FA coaching diploma. It would have been ridiculous for someone with all Sir Alex's experience to have to go through an onerous pro-licence course."

 

Ferguson is likely to have retired by 2010, but O'Neill could well be working at a Premiership club and need to complete a residential course at Warwick University, an overseas study trip and several assignments over a period of up to two years.

[Isegrim 9577]

 

So will we give him the job for 12 weeks?

[Optimistic Nut 31]

Oooh, Mr Oliver won't like this.

[Renton 20425]

Can someone explain to me why you need these licenses/qualifications to manage a football club? It's not like being a doctor where it's a matter life and death. The proof of your competence should be in the pudding as they say.

[Isegrim 9577]

Can someone explain to me why you need these licenses/qualifications to manage a football club? It's not like being a doctor where it's a matter life and death. The proof of your competence should be in the pudding as they say.

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Well, I know cases of fake doctors who worked in their job for several decades and did a great job. On the other hand I do remember Graeme Souness...

 

UEFA decided it is mandatory these days and that's how it is, moaning about it won't help. And I don't think certain knowledge in modern training, tactics and things like nuitrition do any harm to people before they start a job as football manager. In the end the game has become very professional anyway.