Charlton manager Alan Curbishley says Martin O'Neill has been spared the pressure affecting the other candidates hoping to become the new England coach.
Curbishley, 48, is on an unofficial shortlist to replace Sven-Goran Eriksson after the World Cup.
He said: "You have a Curbs watch, a Sam Allardyce watch - but you can't have an O'Neill watch as he hasn't got anything going on. He's nice and cosy.
"If you imagine the position we find ourselves in it's not right."
"People are on this apparent shortlist for what we've done at our clubs"
He added: "Since Sven decided he was going to leave, it's been going on for two or three months and we've all got jobs to do, all got responsibilities to our clubs.
"If you talk about how the teams have responded - Middlesbrough have responded to Steve McClaren, my team's lost one in nine."
Curbishley says that whether he gets the England post or not, he wants to sit down with Charlton chairman Richard Murray in the summer and discuss his future.
The 48-year-old has been in charge of the club since 1991 and admits the national team job is a world apart from working at The Valley.
"If I do commit myself to this club it takes me into the 50s and people have been talking about me never having managed big players, never done this and never done this," he said.
"So maybe in the summer I need to have a think about things.
"Running a league team is totally different to running the national side.
"If I drop somebody for the national side I wouldn't have an agent ringing me up saying why aren't I playing his client. It's a different set of rules.
"As the manager of Charlton taking the team to Highbury, you are, like anybody at the moment, up against a superior team.
"I don't think there are many superior teams out there where England have to talk about damage limitation.
"People are on this apparent shortlist for what we've done at our clubs. That's a different job altogether."