Premier League: Portuguese José Mourinho says there are too many foreign managers

"Maybe I am speaking against myself but there are too many foreign coaches in this country. I do not see any good reason for that because the British managers are not behind the foreign ones," said José Mourinho, the Portuguese coach of Chelsea (Premier League), to the British press, on the 06/01/2014.

On the 07/01/2014, there were nine non-British or Irish managers (45%) in the Premier League, whereas there were no foreign managers in 1992. Among the eleven British or Irish managers remaining, five are English: Alan Pardew (Newcastle), Sam Allardyce (West Ham), Steve Bruce (Hull City), Keith Downing (West Bromwich, interim) and Tim Sherwood (Tottenham).

"Coaches who join the league (...) are good coaches and good people and they try to do good jobs for them and for their clubs. So I'm not saying these people are not top people or people that don't deserve to be here the same way I deserve to be here. I just feel sorry that in a country like England, that is the country of so many managers, they (British managers) are not getting enough jobs in this country," said the man who joined…