Football Daily | Guns for hire and gegenpress eggheads bring World Cup subplots aplenty

MANAGING EXPECTATIONS The awesome thing about a World Cup is that – unlike the Premier League where almost every elite-grade head coach comes from the same scenic Spanish town – we get to enjoy some wonderfully varied managerial match-ups. Where else can we see grizzled international specialists against Big Cup-winning club gurus? Or retired national team legends opposite some bloke who got sacked by Everton? Or Ronald Koeman, who is both? England, Brazil and USA USA USA are the obvious examples of teams who’ve splashed the cash on a gun-for-hire super-coach with no previous international managerial experience. And you can only imagine the relief if “The Professor” Tuchel , “The Eyebrow” Ancelotti or “The Hair” Pochettino are, at some stage, sent packing by a gritty Carlos Queiroz type, who will have protected his patch from these club-class dilettantes. The Geopolitics World Cup delivers some fascinating face-offs in the coming days including Lionel Scaloni, who worked his way up the levels with Argentina before achieving glory, against Ralf Rangnick, gegenpress egghead and Manchester United legend [citation needed] who’d strictly managed clubs before taking over Austria at age 63. …