Football Association chairman David Bernstein today said the next England manager will ideally be English or British but must above all be "the best person" available.
HE peers into the distance as more than 40 refs, clad in blue training gear, traverse his line of vision in the manner of the US cavalry jogging on patrol.
THE sound and fury of Tynecastle tonight will be far from the ears, eyes and whistle of Craig Thomson, but the Scottish referee knows that the occasional mayhem of the Caledonian game has taken him to the very brink of achieving a lifetime's ambition.
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