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SHOW STEVE SOME CHARITY
MONDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 2007

Steve McClaren has come under fire from the press for spending the weekend in LA watching David Beckham playing in a charity match against opposition like Without A Trace star Anthony LaPaglia and Def Leppard guitarist Viv Campbell.

McClaren’s critics are wrong. With just two weeks until the crunch qualifier, it would madness if McClaren were to stay in England and keep tabs on the Premier League, watching the players who he surely knows all about by now.

As Croatia are almost certain to qualify for the finals, who’s to say that there won’t be a smattering of celebrities in the side that Slaven Bilic will bring to Wembley in a couple of weeks time?


There’s no such thing as over-preparation, and if the Croatian equivalent of John Nettles and Cliff Richard line up against England and we somehow manage to win the game, it’ll be one in the eye for the journos and their poisonous anti-McClaren agendas.

If however, Croatia pitch up with their best XI and do us over again, the LA trip will look like the ultimate f**k-up and charity gigs will be the only kind of serious work McClaren is likely to get in the next few years.

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