[shakermaker]

Originally Posted by Revived Red

Sorry - non sequitur. There is ample evidence of recently-retired players and non-league managers having both tactical nous and personal maturity. One has only to look a few miles down the road at Ewood Park. [...]
Peter Taylor, Peter Reid? Graeme Souness? Brian Kidd? Carlton Palmer?

There's a big difference between Mark Hughes and Carlton Palmer! (Especially seeing as Hughes was an international manager before a domestic one).

The rest in the list? To me, they're just 'names' that (a) we couldn't afford and (b) even if we could afford them, wouldn't last five minutes anyway due to their respective egos.