Northampton boss Jim Mallinder reveals to the Sunday Times' Stephen Jones that his goal is to coach England.
Frankly, Mallinder is doing a towering job. He picked up the club in the second division, after incoherence over too many years had condemned them to relegation. They burst back into the Guinness Premiership with a perfect season and confirmed their status last season. They have already won the first trophy of this season, [the LV Anglo-Welsh Cup, ]they are near the top of the division and on Saturday they play in the quarter-final of the Heineken Cup, away to Munster in Limerick. Such is the promise of this burgeoning, fiery team, that this is not by any means an impossible mission.
He has also brought to the fore a raft of English dazzle — Ben Foden, Courtney Lawes, Chris Ashton, Shane Geraghty and others. He is unquestionably the leading English-born contender to coach the national side and, if timings are correct, he could well coach England sooner rather than later. It is a monumental career revival."
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