Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has told the FA they are 'cheating' by employing a foreign manager of England.

As the players prepared to fly to Podgorica for Friday night's potentially conclusive Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro, Carragher, 33, claimed that having the national side coached by an Italian was 'embarrassing' for English football.

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Carragher answered Fabio Capello's call last year and went to the World Cup in South Africa.

But he believes the rules that apply to the nationality of players should be extended to managers in the international game.
The Liverpool veteran said: 'If your manager's not good enough, that's your country's fault. Get a better manager. Do the coaching qualification better.

'I think it's a form of cheating at international football and it's a bit embarrassing. I've got nothing against Capello. I went with him to the World Cup and got to know him a little bit. But I just think that's what international football is.

The 33-year-old was persuaded to come out of international retirement by Capello to feature for England at last year's World Cup, but admitted that the Italian failed in South Africa.

Carragher added: 'Maybe it's something in our culture, or because English managers don't get the chance to win club games at the top.

'If all the Premier League managers were English then someone would have to win the league, someone would have to win the FA Cup.

'They'd have to accumulate these trophies and that's what it was like in the past.

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