Many things can be said about the English Premier League. That it’s the most interesting, the best organized, or the league with the best fans. And all of these epithets depend on people’s personal preferences. However, one thing cannot be denied – Premier League belongs to foreign managers.An English manager has never won the Premier League. pic.twitter.com/sRoYBWKaH0— Regista (@Regista) September 10, 2015 How else could anyone explain that no English gaffer has won the EPL since its foundation in 1992?! In fact, the last Englishman who triumphed in the top tier of their domestic football was Howard Wilkinson, who took the First Division trophy leading Leeds United in the 1991/92 season – the last before the Premier League was founded.No English manager has ever won the Premier League. The last Englishman to manage a team to the top-flight title was Howard Wilkinson in ’91/’92, the season before the Premier League was launched. pic.twitter.com/32tWx8tYQ2— LearnEnglishThroughFootball (@LETFootball) January 22, 2018 Moreover, the English managers weren’t even close to winning the title, given that in these 32 seasons of the league’s existence, they were vice-champions only twice – in 1993, when Ron Atkinson led Aston Villa to second place, ten points behind Man United, and three years later, when Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle lost the title by four points, again to the Red Devils.A man with the best job in the worldRegarding the foreign managers, the Scots are the most successful, mainly thanks to the great Sir Alex Ferguson, who won 13 titles with Man United, and Kenny Dalglish, who added one (Blackburn, 1995). Behind England’s neighbours, there are Italians with four EPL trophies. Carlo Ancelotti (2010) and Antonio Conte (2017) both brought titles to Chelsea, Roberto Mancini in 2012 led Man City to their first England top-tier trophy after 44 years, while Claudio Ranieri created the utmost miracle with Leicester in 2016.Finally, the Frenchman Arsene Wenger has three titles with Arsenal (1998, 2002, 2004), just as much the Portuguese Jose Mourinho has with Chelsea (2005, 2006, 2015). Pep Guardiola represents Spain with six Premier Leagues in the past seven years, while the two managers with one title each conclude the list – Manuel Pellegrini from Chile (Man City, 2014) and the German Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool, 2020).Top 5 – Managers with the most Premier League trophies 🏆🏴 pic.twitter.com/wC6fUyVvl2— Score 90 (@Score90_) May 20, 2024 Truth be said, the times have changed a lot during almost the third of a century the Premier League has existed. For example, there were only six foreign managers out of 22 in total in the first edition of, back then, newly formed competition. Now, in the upcoming season, there will be only three Englishmen on the benches of PL clubs – Everton’s Sean Dyche, Newcastle’s Eddie Howe, and Wolverhampton’s Gary O’Neil. It’s pointless even to mention that this trio has almost no chance of lifting the Premier League trophy despite the Magpies’ increasingly high ambitions.##NAJAVA_MECA_8262779##
