Steve McClaren
Dec 15 2007, Sameer Kumar

The tough Italian task master is all set to take England on to the football turf and the country would be hoping that he would do it with a more success than his predecessor Steve McClaren. It was announced yesterday that the man who led Real Madrid.

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