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Lee Carsley will don his janitor’s jacket and take caretaker control of England while the FA continues to throw names around the room as it tries to find a replacement for Gareth Southgate. Carsley will step up from his role as England U-21 manager for next month’s Nations League games against – wait for it – the Republic of Ireland, who he represented 40 times. He’ll also be in charge against Finland “with a view to remaining in the position throughout autumn while the FA’s recruitment process for a new permanent head coach continues”. Carsley added: “It’s an honour to lead this England squad on an interim basis. As I am very familiar with the players and the cycle of international football, it makes sense for me to guide the team while the FA continues the process to recruit a new manager. My main priority is to ensure continuity and our goal is to secure promotion in the Uefa Nations League.”
It’s golden – we are [Big Sports Day] winners! Hats off to what you have done with Checker in the last year and a half. I am so excited. Let yourself go and celebrate now” – Thomas Müller might not have won Big Cup this year, but he’s played a part in providing Germany with a gold medal thanks to his part-ownership of a 14-year-old grey gelding who can leap like no other.
Re: yesterday’s Memory Lane, full email edition. Thank you for restoring the !, !!, and !!! to the USWNT (USA! USA!! USA!!!). Getting their stripes back has been something richly deserved and grittily earned by America’s scuffling sweethearts; and generously recognised by Football Daily, the outlet where the heart of soccerball beats the loudest. Meanwhile continuing to withhold ! etc from the USMNT, pending better performances on a consistent basis in the – alas – infinitely receding future. From thousands of miles away in beautiful California the return of ! has been noted!! Thank you, Chelsea and British football in general, for preparing Emma Hayes so well to pull our flagship national team out of its unaccustomed drift and doldrums. In gratitude: UK! UK!!! UK!!!” – Anthony Pearsall [this was only because it was a reference to their ! !! !!! era. But come Saturday night, maybe again – Football Daily Ed].
There’s been a lot of talk about the quickest route from Arsenal to Fulham (Football Daily letters passim). Just don’t ask Alex Iwobi for his route, as his path from Arsenal to Fulham involved taking a long detour to Merseyside” – Dan Davis.
Hopefully Tim Ream’s transfer will not lead to a stream of Football Daily letters providing the best options for travel from Fulham the Charlotte” – Trevor Wastell.
Good to see the readership of the Daily are levelling up the north-south divide, or whatever, by spending a week discussing how to get from the cultural desert of north London to the city’s fiscally deprived west. I can tell you that the best way to get between the northern powerhouses of Leeds and Manchester the other night was, once again, a rattly minibus hastily put on a whole hour after the actual trains were all suddenly and unexpectedly cancelled. I suspect if that kept happening when you were all trying to get back to Brighton, it’d be front page news in Big Paper, not a frippery in a football newsletter” – Jon Millard (very well balanced, chips on both shoulders).
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