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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