When Graham Taylor went, we were all in a tizzy that England had had it as a footballing force. But in no time at all Venables restored pride and some measure of achievement. This is, after all, a job where there's no commercial content, so objections based on Venables' chequered business career are wide of the mark. It's not as though the job to be done is actually that difficult, although it can be made to seem so by the likes of Keegan and Howard Wilkinson. If it is, we should give up the game altogether.
Despair is an unnecessary emotion.
What's needed is a bit of sense, and some competent management of a thorough selection process. Hopefully, this won't strain Crozier's resources too much. But at least this week he said one thing I agreed with. If he gets it wrong, he's had it, and that should concentrate his mind wonderfully. Now we know the cost of not having them, and that's pretty off-putting as well.