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Alan Pardew: FA should give more coaches international experience

Alan Pardew believes the Football Association should do more to bring through potential England managers.

The 55-year-old is among the names being linked to the position following the acrimonious end to Sam Allardyce's 67-day reign, which saw his contract terminated by mutual consent on Tuesday after he was secretly filmed by the Daily Telegraph making a series of controversial comments.

Crystal Palace boss Pardew insists he is entirely focused on his position at Selhurst Park despite being one of a select group of managers touted as Allardyce's long-term successor after Gareth Southgate stepped up from the Under-21s to take charge of England's next four matches.

And he also suggested the FA is not doing enough to help English managers prepare for potentially managing their country in the future and has called for more integration within the set-up.

"They keep talking about having a system," he said at his Palace news conference on Thursday. "I have a little criticism that I felt in the summer when the job came up. Myself, Eddie Howe, any English manager as far as I'm aware, has never been invited to England as a guest and I think we should be.

"We should understand what goes on at press conferences for England and behind the scenes -- otherwise how are we going to get experience.

"Eddie is at Bournemouth and I'm at Crystal Palace, we are not at Manchester United or top clubs.

"International experience is very difficult [to get], I have got into Europe twice, you could easily put against my name that I lack international experience but how am I going to get it?

"I have got to jump through hoops to get this club into Europe so that is an error the FA should look at."

One player who hopes Pardew manages England in the future is West Ham winger Michail Antonio, who received his first call-up to the Three Lions from Allardyce for the win over Slovakia, though he did not play.

Antonio told ITV: "The manager I really like and who's done well over the years, I'd say Alan Pardew, I was with him at Southampton and I think he's a quality manager, I think he'd do well as England manager.

"I wouldn't say it's important the England manager is English, [but] it would be a nice feel to it and it would be easier to get things put across to the players."

Antonio also said he was sorry to see Allardyce lose his job.

"People move on, you've got to move on and keep doing what you're doing. It was a great time, he's so laid back," the player said.

"I feel like he was a good manager, the way things have happened, it was 67 days into his job, at least he's leaving with a 100 percent record, but I think things have ended prematurely for him."

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