Phil Neville appointment a kick in the teeth for better qualified coaches | Louise Taylor

The former Manchester United player has no experience in the women’s game but has still been given the England job in preference to Mo Marley and other well-qualified coaches

A damning indictment of the Football Association’s recruitment process? A kick in the teeth for those who have done the hard yards in the women’s game? A devaluation of the coaching profession? Or yet another case of jobs for the boys?

There is, of course, a chance that Phil Neville’s left-field appointment as the new manager of the England women’s team could yet come to be seen as brilliantly inspired. If so, it would surely be down to luck rather than judgment on the part of Martin Glenn, the FA’s chief executive, and his fellow selectors.

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