Smith warns McClaren
Steve McClaren has been warned against taking the England manager's job by the man who gave him his big break in coaching.
McClaren's name is to be recommended to the Football Association board on Thursday but Jim Smith, who took him on as first-team coach at Derby in 1995, has told his ex-underling to turn down the offer.
Smith, currently manager of Oxford, told BBC Sport: "I've spoken to him and advised him not to take it, but he doesn't listen to me nowadays. I said to him, 'I don't know what you're doing wanting it because you've already seen that you tend to get on the front pages as well as the back pages'. But he's a bright, astute young man and I'm sure he'd do well."
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