Next England Manager Odds: Fred’s backing Ed

Next England Manager Odds 

If Gareth Southgate's successor is to be another Englishman then it should be Eddie Howe. 

He's the standout candidate as far as I'm concerned, and 9/2 third-favourite with Betfred for the job to take England to another level after our morale-sapping Euros final defeat to Spain.

But the Newcastle United boss, who cut his teeth at Bournemouth, faces tough competition from out of work ex-Brighton boss Graham Potter and England's highly-successful under-21 coach Lee Carsley.

It can't be going quite as well as he expected up in Geordieland with all the changes at the top, and the fact Newcastle didn't match the season before and qualify for the Champions League. So my message to Eddie is that your country needs you!

I'm not at all excited about Potter or Carsley - and if not Eddie and we cast our net further then what about Jurgen Klopp, or even Pep Guardiola. Either of them would represent a tremendous coup for the FA but I can't imagine they would fancy it.

Betfred do have the distinguished duo right up there amongst our runners and riders ... both at 10/1 for arguably the most demanding job in international football.

Southgate decided to quit after a 102-game stint and will go down in history as the nearly man. One thing I just can’t get my head around is this clamour from some quarters for Southgate to be knighted. For what? He's not won us anything despite having such a fine array of fantastic players who he failed to turn into a winning unit.

His substitutions were a case of too little too late. It was glaringly obvious to us all that our skipper Harry Kane was struggling for form throughout the tournament - and every time Cole Palmer came off the bench it dramatically improved our chances.

Yet he stuck with Kane throughout and didn't use Chelsea's ex-City man enough. The Wythenshawe lad is in fact one of the very few players who enhanced their reputations in Germany.

Turning to Betfred Super League and we have a cracking game on Friday with second-place Warrington at Saints, who are in fourth after three successive defeats. Match odds.

Last time out St Helens did show a huge improvement in form but were ultimately narrowly defeated by the campaign's most outstanding team Wigan, who are four points clear at the top of the table with a game in hand.

Betfred have Saints odds-on to make home advantage count and beat the Wire ... but the Wolves on the back of a convincing win against fading Leeds are an attractive 7/4 with us to take the points.

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