Blame the FA, not McClaren - everyone else KNEW he wasn't up to it

So the result we all anticipated was confirmed last night. If England were a Premier League team under Steve McClaren, they would be sitting at the bottom of the log, about five points worse off than Derby - and that in itself is a big ask.

'McClaren is a No.2 and that is all he is good for. In his own right he is spineless - and that is understatement'

McClaren did not have a a formation, a clue - in fact I am not going to talk about what he got wrong. That would be too emotionally taxing an experience and it is too early in the morning to deal with such things. I am not angry. I processed that the day he was appointed and decided to get the whole disappointment over and done with. The long and the short is that  the England players will not be in Switzerland or Austria come June 2008 unless Rio Ferdinand and his mates are planning one of their infamous escapades that make good reading in the News of the World.

I blame the Football Association, not McClaren. I am confident that anybody worth their salt knew he wasn't good enough for the job. It was like someone who simply knows how to use Microsoft Word applying for a position as a software programmer in the Microsoft Office Suite.  McClaren is a No.2 and that is all he is good for. In his own right he is spineless - and that is understatement.

So why did the FA pick him? Was there another Faria Alam-style scandal? I do not see how they could have made that decision and imagined it was the right one.