The Manager Sack Race/Merry-go-Round

[Brosef Stalin]

Neville sacked by Valencia. I suppose the joke got a bit old.

I'd have gone for..."Sky's the limit for GNeville"

I don't get it????

you're a thick pcunt mind!

[semtex1871]

you're a thick pcunt mind!

I don't get it....?????

[stealthpapes]

On Nigel Pearson

‘It is the best story about Nigel Pearson, perhaps the best story about any Premier League manager, and it concerns the man still in charge of Leicester City and a pack of wild dogs that he encountered while hiking alone in the Carpathian mountains.

‘Pearson’s most detailed account of the incident came in a documentary Sky Sports made about the newly promoted Leicester last summer. “There was five of them,” he recalled, “and what they do is that one goes for you and the others [circle] around until one of them can bring you down – what they essentially do is rip the throat out.”

‘He said he had escaped them first time by throwing himself into a “patch of brambles and nettles” where he knew the dogs would not follow. When they attacked a second time he had only his walking poles to defend himself. “I backed myself against a tree,” Pearson said. “I thought ‘I don’t want to get attacked from behind’. I was absolutely goosed by this point.” He did not go into details about how he survived, saying only that he “managed to get rid of them”.’

[Sutekh]

Don't mess with the Pearson....

[Winston Smith]

Ronny Deila leaving Celtic

[Sanguine]

Ronny Deila leaving Celtic

Weird one that. Kinda.
He won the league every season, won as many cups as Lennon, got to the CL group stage or further as many times as Lennon (2) and had a similar win rate (67% compared to 69%). But the fans never warmed to him.

[Winston Smith]

Hope they get a nasty Irishman next just to ramp the h8red levels back up to where they used to be for us lolzy onlookers

[stealthpapes]

Plus they've recently changed the board or at least rearranged the behind the scenes stuff.

Little and Bernstein in. Once that happened, Garde had no future.

Absolute shambles of a club.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36076936

[genome]

Martinez surely on the brink. Don't think he'll go before an FA cup semi though.

Liverpool had 41 shots on their goal last night Should've been more than 4-0.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Liverpool had 41 shots on their goal last night Should've been more than 4-0.

[From Despair To Where?]

Everton are one of the few clubs who seem to give managers time and Moyes didn't tend to put 2 decent seasons together. I'd be surprised if Martinez's job was seriously under threat.

[Stranded]

Everton are one of the few clubs who seem to give managers time and Moyes didn't tend to put 2 decent seasons together. I'd be surprised if Martinez's job was seriously under threat.

Big downward trend there though. He took over a flu that finished 6th. Took them to 9th first year, 11th last year and likely lower this. When at Wigan, took over a club that finished 11th finished lower each year there until they got relegated.

[From Despair To Where?]

Fair enough if Martinez haha track record of steady decline.

I know a few Evertonians and they're pretty level headed. They know the club can't compete financially with the top 6 and they have pretty realistic expectations. I suppose it comes from spending over 50 years as the underdog in your own city. They don't strike me as the sort of fans to call for the manager's head for finishing mid table and neither do the owners.

[6ft Kerplunk]

Didn't they get new owners recently? The FA Cup win at Wigan certainly puts a nice gloss on his Wigan career which the league results doesn't necessarily warrant.

[From Despair To Where?]

Kenwright owns 15% now but is the second largest shareholder and still chairman. The largest shareholder has less than 50%.

[paultheroyal]

You have to wonder what goes on in the minds of club chairman and their boards.

What are Peterborough thinking appointing Graham Westley. A shocking appointment.

Decent on the non league circuit mainly because he wanted to own any club he managed this bloke from personal experience is...

A) nasty piece of work
B) tactically inept
C) thick
D) not very good

Feel for the fans. Surely better was out there?

And he's gone! Deserved.

[paultheroyal]

Leicester looking a solid bet to go down at 4/1.

How much you put on?

[Pepe the Horseman]

Had them in a L15 with Bristol Rovers to make the play offs, Blackpool to go down and MK Dons to make top 6 Cashed out for my money back after about ten games.

[Uke]

Could this manager go next?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -wife.html

His team's performances could have been below par due to his mind being elsewhere...

[Hoop Blah]

Could this manager go next?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -wife.html

His team's performances could have been below par due to his mind being elsewhere...

Might be how he's got a semi on too...