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===Criticism=== In assessing Winterbottom's tenure as England manager, Goldblatt writes that "[Winterbottom] introduced a measure of tactical thinking and discussion to the England squad, though his inability to anticipate or learn significantly from the Hungarian debacle suggests that his grasp of tactics and communication with the players was limited."<ref name="goldblatt">{{cite book |title=The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer |first=David |last=Goldblatt |publisher=Penguin |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-59448-296-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i1158WHUTvwC |page=443 |access-date=19 June 2018 |archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007130300/https://books.google.com/books?id=i1158WHUTvwC |url-status=live }}</ref> William Baker writes that Winterbottom, because of his "upper-class origins [sic]", could not "effectively instruct, much less inspire, working-class footballers."<ref name="baker">{{cite book |title=Sports in the Western world |first=William Joseph |last=Baker|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=1988|isbn=0-252-06042-3|url=https://archive.org/details/sportsinwesternw00bake|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/sportsinwesternw00bake/page/308 308]}}</ref> Football journalist [[Brian Glanville]] said in an interview: "I got on very well with Walter Winterbottom, but he was a rotten manager."<ref>{{cite web | url= http://thesetpieces.com/interviews/vox-box-brian-glanville/ | title= Vox in the Box: Brian Glanville | work=The Set Pieces | access-date=15 April 2019 | first=Iain | last=MacIntosh| date= 7 January 2015 }}</ref>
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