Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Nathan was on a hiding to nothing at Southampton. Every manager that was there last season was found wanting.
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[Football] Managers Who Make The Wrong Move.
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Cowfold Seagull
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Didn't leave the Albion though, he was sacked before he got the Sunderland gig.
I forgot about David Burke as DOF. What an awful appointment that was. I remember lots of whisperings at the time about how unpopular he was. I also met him on the train back from Forest once with Bloom. He was pretty dour (unlike Tony who was necking cans of cider all the way back). I just looked him up to see what he is doing now- he is still a Director of Football. At a school.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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He'll still have a face like a smacked arse tho eh?
Coldeanseagull
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Most managers going to watford....bet they didn't realise what a giggle that would be!
I'd take the Watford job if I knew I was going to get shedloads of cash for about 3 months work.
Jolly Red Giant
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When Brian Clough went to Leeds
Jolly Red Giant
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The Leeds board made a massive f*ck-up with that appointment. Clough had been hurling abuse at the Leeds players for two seasons. When he got there he told the players to throw all their medals in a bin because they didn't deserve them.
Johnny Giles should have been made manager after Revie - he had been groomed for the job for three years. The players were hopping that Giles didn't get the job because they knew he was capable of keeping them a top team (he was already player-manager of the Irish team) - but the board wanted to make a big splash. When Leeds sacked Clough the board went back to Giles and offered him the job - he told them to get stuffed.
At the end of the season Leeds sold him at a knockdown price to WBA, who made Giles their player manager. Giles got WBA promoted in his first season and then they finished 7th in his second season. He clashed with the WBA board because they excluded him from any discussions on the financial matters of the club. Meanwhile Jimmy Armfield struggled to do anything any Leeds (despite having a really good squad a players).
That was Brighton's wrong move!
Smug Eddie, the first time he left Bournmouth. Burnley wasn't it? Still, he seems to have got away with it...........................
Frank O'Farrell.
Frank O'Farrell.
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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And they still beat us at the Amex didn’t they?
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Every Man Ure manager after the unpleasant Scotsman
And virtually every Man Ure manager after Busby and before the unpleasant Sccotsman.
And virtually every Man Ure manager after Busby and before the unpleasant Sccotsman.
Obviously not a good move in the short term, but with hindsight it's fair to say things turned out quite well for him in the end.
Goes to show a career path doesn't have to be one smooth upward curve towards success.
Not leaving Forest a few years earlier than he did was probably an error, both from Forest's perspective and his own for health reasons.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
He made a ricket going to Liverpool.
beardy gull
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Looking like Julen Lopetegui is out of Wolverhampton. Can see Potter replacing him perhaps? Wrong move again?
Jolly Red Giant
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Gary O'Neil is supposed to have the job - a nightmare job this season - Wolves had to sell a load of players because of FFP.
Whitechapel
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Chris Wilder was a terrible fit for Middlesbrough and seems to have destroyed most of the goodwill he’d built up in his career.
southstandandy
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Big Sam going to Leeds last season!
Jolly Red Giant
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Frank O'Farrell had the potential to be a top manager - and was sold a pig in a poke by Man Utd. Busby wouldn't vacate the manager's office and whenever there was a problem the players promptly went to Busby who invariably over-ruled O'Farrell. Bobby Charlton was Busby's stooge in the dressing-room. DEspite all that O'Farrell had Utd top of the League at Christmas. Then George Best began acting up and O'Farrell set out to deal with the problem, but Busby again stuck his tuppence worth in and it resulted in Best going completely off the rails.
O'Farrell signed a five-year contract with Utd - but when they sacked him they refused to honour the contract and he had to sue them for unpaid wages. O'Farrell had to sign on at the dole office because he had no income.
This is a really good documentary about Frank O'Farrell
Jolly Red Giant
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The key to Brian Clough's success at Forest was down to getting Peter Taylor to be his assistant again.
Great story about Clough's man-management in dealing with Roy Keane. When Clough signed Keane he paid Cobh Ramblers £15,000. The Cobh Chairman told Clough he would have taken £10,000 - Clough replied that he would have paid half a million. When Keane joined Forest he was repeatedly homesick and Clough used to allow him go back to Cork for a few days break - eventually Keane settled. Keane then played in an U-21 tournament in Holland. Forest were playing Liverpool at Anfield for the first game of the season. Clough called Keane into his office and told him he was taking him to Anfield to help out with the kit - he told him to bring his boots so that he could do the warm-up with the team. Keane was thrilled and ran off to pack his boots. 15 mins before the game Clough handed Keane a jersey and told him he was playing. Keane said that he was so shocked he didn't have time to get nervous. He walked out on the pitch and stood beside Stuart Pearce who turned to Keane and said 'who the f*ck are you' - 'I'm Roy Keane'.