Eddie Howe at Newcastle and Graham Potter at West Ham are an exception in what many consider to be the best league in the world. The two Englishman are the only two coaches in the Premier League, a league that hasn't been won by an English manager since 1992 (Howard Wilkinson, Leeds United). The PL notably includes four Spanish coaches (Pep Guardiola, Mikel Arteta, Unai Emery and Andoni Iraola) and four Portuguese (Nuno Santo, Marco Silva, Ruben Amorim and Vitor Pereira). An anomaly. The French daily newspaper l'Équipe has analyzed the phenomenon in the five major European leagues. Locally born coaches are in the majority in the Bundesliga (10/18), La Liga (14/20) and Serie A (16/20). A situation that is not new in Italy since, over the last thirty years, only Sven-Göran Eriksson (2000, SS Lazio) and José Mourinho (2009 and 2010, Inter Milan) have won the Calcio. And what about Ligue 1? Although its biggest budget teams are coached by foreigners (Luis Enrique, Paulo Fonseca, Roberto De Zerbi and Addi Hutter), at least half of the top flight teams have French coaches on their benches.
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Newcastle coach Eddie Howe is one of only two English coaches in the Premier League this season / ©Icon Sport