After nearly 17,000 votes and 1,000 comments the Eurosport-Yahoo! readers have decided Harry Redknapp is the right man to manage England – but only just.
We held a 'Redknapp Referendum' and asked you the readers to vote on our simple question:
"Is Harry Redknapp the right man to lead England?"
As of Friday evening the results stood at:
Yes – 60%
No – 40%
With 16,901 people having voted by 18:00 on Friday.
The vote is still open if you want to try and change the result.
The media have been telling us that Redknapp is the overwhelming choice of the fans to replace Fabio Capello as England manager, but our results show there is a sizeable minority that don't want the Tottenham boss to take charge of the national team.
Our original story canvassing opinion also sparked huge debate, with over 1,000 comments being posted on the issue.
Indeed, a running theme through a lot of the comments was that nobody is really suited to the job and instead many of you put the blame at the players' door for England's recent failings.
Here is what some of you have been saying.
Keith: Give him the job let him run it how he wants, keep the press off his back, train up the young players as a team. Pass on Rooney, Lamps, Terry and even the best England player we have - Stevie Gerrard. Give him the job, leave him alone, take no notice of people like me that know nowt and we could win the World Cup.
Brian: Get the best of both worlds, Harry and Pearce together - then when Harry retires, Stuart Pearce can take over. Capello was no good anyway, so what is the big debate about. His tactics in the World Cup were dreadful, and I wouldn't want him to manage anything. All of the old guard should be kicked out with Capello, Terry, Lampard, Gerrard Ferdinand etc and bring in the new young kids. They can't do any worse than the last lot and might even want to play for their country instead of wanting something out of it with their image rights.
Kevin: When names like Allardyce, Pardew and Curbishley are being bandied about, then I know we are in trouble. Redknapp is just at the top of a pile of a load of rubbish. This knee-jerk reaction to "We must have an English manager" sounds familiar. Isn't that what happened when Sven got the boot? And what did we end up with? A certain Mr Steve McClaren, who had taken a previously underperforming club and made them moderately successful and won one domestic cup competition. And that is all. His track record sounds scarily familiar to Harry Redknapp's in fact. Let's not panic again. Let the press have their feeding frenzy. Announce that Stuart Pearce is in charge till the summer. We are going to do nothing at the Euros anyway so who cares. It allows all the managers to get on with their jobs with their current clubs without this distraction and allows sensible conversations to be had at the right time.
Derek: If Harry is the answer it must be a bloody stupid question. If you look at his clubs they are either bankrupt since he left (Pompey), have been bankrupt after he left (Bournemouth, Southampton) or have been saved from bankruptcy by rich fans (West Ham). We need a manager who can get the best out of the players already available. So maybe Curbishley, but for me no one else is close to Martin O'Neill.
Martin: Redknapp would have to be insane to take on the England job... especially with the way Spurs are playing right now! Give it to Stuart Pearce, get rid of all the older players and Rooney (has to be the most overrated player in the world. He never does anything for England in the big games). Give the next generation of players and manager a chance to show what they can do.
Brian: Not too sure about Redknapp becoming English manager he tends to make clubs better by bringing in the right (often foreign) players, he is a wheeler and dealer. I think it's more the English team themselves that really need more attention. Too many egos in my eyes very much like the Spanish team were a few years ago. No matter what the coach, always the same problem...the players.
Neil: It is probably Harry's dream job and sods law means it comes at the wrong time. I think that he has a serious quandary as Spurs' are flying high with an outside chance of maybe causing an upset and breaking the Manchester monopoly. If he takes it too early then it could be a disaster and if he turns it down he might miss his chance. Decisions, decisions.
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