As he stood there on the touchline with the rain falling at the Rat Verlegh Stadion in Breda, Steve McClaren’s mind must have cast back to Wembley two-and-a-half years ago. Croatia, Scott Carson, umbrellas and all that. Then, for possibly the first time since that night, he could have smiled about it.
An undoubted failure as England manager, McClaren attempted a renaissance at the most unlikely of places. Now a Dutch title winner with FC Twente, the first part of that character rebuilding process is complete.
Eyebrows were raised when he chose to move to the eastern Holland city of Enschede, the home of Twente, an improving club but not one of the Eredivisie’s “big three” of Ajax, PSV or Feyenoord.
http://blogs.bettor.com/In-demand-Steve-McClaren-emerges-from-his-umbrella-a10770
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