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OH NO! McLAREN'S BACK FOR ENGLAND

07-05-2008

Former England boss Steve McLaren is back – but thankfully only as a BBC summariser for this summer’s Euro championships. You know, the tournament we failed to qualify for when he was manager. Glyn Berrington is so outraged he’s getting up a petition calling for Mac to get the sack - again!

Unfortunately for Glyn, his attempt to have it listed on the Downing Street website has been rejected because it’s “outside the remit or powers of the Prime Minister and Government.”

That doesn’t mean it’s wrong though.

So Glyn wondered whether other Stirrer readers agree with him that the Beeb should steer clear of an “expert” who failed his nation.

Read the wording of his petition here…

   We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'ask the BBC
   to revoke their decision to employ Steve McClaren as an expert
   summariser at Euro 2008'

   Steve McClaren failed in his job and let the country down when
   the England football team in his charge failed to qualify for
   the Euro 2008 tournament

   As a result of that, not only do the country's football
   followers not have their team to support this summer, but many
   companies' profits have been hit and jobs lost as a direct
   result

   It is staggering that the BBC have now seen fit to employ him
   as an expert summariser for the tournament - this shows no
   regard for the feelings of the licence-fee payers who will
   ultimately be rewarding him for failure, bearing in mind also
   that he has already received a substantial pay-off from the FA

   We ask the PM to intervene and ask the BBC to revoke the
   contract offer

Should the BBC revoke its decision to hire Steve McLaren? Leave a comment on The Stirrer Forum.