There's no doubt that Harry Redknapp is the best man to take over as England manager, says Sir Alex Ferguson

The four-man Club England board were meeting today to start the process of selecting a successor to Fabio Capello, who quit on Wednesday over the Football Association's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy.

Redknapp is the overwhelming favourite and Ferguson believes the 64-year-old Tottenham manager is the perfect candidate.

"There is no doubt Harry is the best man," said the Manchester United boss. "He has the experience and personality and the knowledge of the game.

"Harry has changed the fortunes of every club he has been at. He is the right choice. You should try to get the best man with the best qualities. A young manager has no chance."

Redknapp today dismissed the idea he could manage England part time through to Euro 2012 and Ferguson believes that is the right decision, having himself struggled in a dual club‑country
role.

Ferguson took on the Scotland job for the 1986 World Cup while Aberdeen manager following the death of Jock Stein 10 months earlier.
Aberdeen could only finish fourth in the Scottish Premier League that season while the national team failed to make it out of the group stages in Mexico.
Ferguson added: "I tried doing
both jobs with Scotland and I found
it very difficult."
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish today cheekily hinted fellow Scot Ferguson should be the next England boss. However Ferguson, whose side face Liverpool at Old Trafford tomorrow, laughed off the idea as he said: "The FA have approached
David Gill - I said I would let them know on April 1. I would do it. I would relegate them."
FA chairman David Bernstein said yesterday the governing body would prefer to appoint a British manager but added they had not ruled out another foreign appointment.
Jose Mourinho, Guus Hiddink and Arsene Wenger have all been touted as potential candidates outside the home-grown choices.
But Frenchman Wenger insisted international management is not for him and urged the FA to go for an English candidate.
The Arsenal manager said: "England is a big football country with more than 65 million people who have a big passion for the game. I love England and I want England to do well. Therefore, I let the FA deal with that problem.
"I have never really been tempted by the national team job because for me it is a completely different job.
"I was always under contract, I respected contracts in my life. I am a little bit in a marathon job inside the club and the national team job is a sprinter's job. I am more interested in a day-to-day basis job.
"[Being a national team manager] is completely different; it is more PR, more communication, there is less impact on the footballing side and less impact on building the team."
Wenger said he had "ruled myself out of many national team jobs" down the years but has again been linked with taking over in France.
He added: "In the future I don't know [whether I would ever manage a national team] because what I do now demands a lot of physical power and to be super fit physically, that might not always be the case."