Steve McNamara takes England role after chat with Stuart Pearce
Steve McNamara sought advice from the England Under-21 football coach Stuart Pearce before agreeing to take a three-year break from club coaching in a bid to lead England to an unlikely triumph in the 2013 World Cup. McNamara believes that the reversion to a full-time national coach represents England's only chance of matching Australia at international level, but saw the frustrations that such a role had caused to his predecessor, Tony Smith, when working as his assistant in the build-up to the last World Cup in 2008.
