I only just noticed that the Spurs boss is Australian and wondered if that's a new one on the list. Was Argentina the previous nation that was farthest from the UK to supply a manager?
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England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
Norway
Netherlands
Switzerland
France
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Sweden
Italy
Australia
USA
Chile
Argentina
Israel
Can't think of anyone from Denmark or Belgium, or eastern Europe. Or anywhere in Africa or Asia, or the Americas outside those mentioned.Comment
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Thomas Frank is Danish.Comment
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Brazil.
Uruguay too.Comment
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Venglos - SlovakiaComment
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Then there was Venglos who was a Slovak, or Czechoslovakian at the time.Comment
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Austria (Hasenhuttl)Comment
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Seeing as "nation" is quite a woolly term, Karanka and Emery are BasqueComment
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Wikipedia has this for the Premier League era although there won't have been many pre 1992 (Venglos being an outlier)
List of Premier League managers - WikipediaComment
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Scolari (Brazil) had a spell at Chelsea
A debatable category is people who played for Caribbean countries but were born in the UK. If we allow them then Darren Moore (Jamaica). Obviously Jamaica supplied one of his parents, so in that sense...(probably no more dubious than Ireland claiming Mick McCarthy)Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 13-08-2023, 20:45.Comment
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Vincent Kompany- BelgiumComment
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It’s a football thing and Northern Ireland is a football thing. Martin ONeil for starters.Comment
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