Pearce shrugs off talk over future position.

England Under 21 manager, Stuart Pearce, has shrugged off suggestions that he could follow Fabio Capello as boss of the senior side, when the Italian decides he has had enough. Pearce’s Under 21 side sit on the verge of greatness after securing a semi-final spot in the European Under 21 Championships.

However, Pearce insists that he is not even close to the calibre and experience that Capello currently possesses and wants to focus on his current role for now. This is fair enough when you consider that his time at Manchester City did not go perfectly and his international career is still in its infancy.

It is a typically English trait to get carried away whenever something goes right at the highest level of sport for the national side. Pearce is a very simple and realistic man and although he may enjoy the limelight in a smug kind of way, he knows that he needs to get a lot more experience from sitting next to Capello during matches than he currently has right now.

Pearce said: “I'm a manager that has been in control of a team for maybe 150 matches over a four-year period. That is ridiculously lightly raced as a manager. Very lightly experienced. I've got a long-term plan that I keep to myself. The one thing I can tell you is that today I haven't got enough experience by any means. The England manager's job is the pinnacle of anyone's career. When I look at Fabio every day and watch him work, I realise how inept I am as a manager.”

“It's how fickle we are in football, that maybe two years ago as Manchester City manager I was written off. Two years down the line I'm written back on again. If I lose the semi-final I'll be written back off again.”

It is actually quite refreshing to see someone who could be so temperamental as a player adopting such a black and white outlook to the current situation that he finds himself in. Pearce knows all of his limitations and he knows the things that he can do very well. He seems as though he wants to learn all of the time and get better with every day that passes.

It is quite a nice potential story being laid out before us. Pearce was an England legend who was not afraid to kick a player up in the air and take a booking if the match justified doing so. He suffered heartbreak and glory in the natioanl side and even though he never won a mjaor competition with his country, he knows all of the positives and negatives that can come with every day life in international football.

We would also like to see an Englishman follow Capello at the top because it would mean an end to foreign managers having a go on the England machine. How successful Capello turns out to be remains to be seen and we all hope he can carry us to success in South Africa next year but regardless of the progress Capello has made, there are still people that want someone English to be in charge.