mark mcgee sacked

[Silver Fox]

Heard this announced yesterday on BBCRB... they followed it by playing Daydream Believer.

[Ian Royal]

McGhee's career trajectory is very strange indeed. I believe he really was Reading's best ever manager if you take circumstances, the money he had to deal with and the way in which he got Reading to play into account. The way he turned us into something from pretty nothing with no resources was almost Cloughesque. I didn't imagine for a minute he would stay at Reading and genuinely believed he would at this stage be one of the UK's top managers. I can't believe he was just a flash in the pan but there doesn't really seem any other explanation.

I think that the majority of Reading fans in the early 90s knew that MM would move on to bigger and better things. he completely changed to profile of the club and we also played some of the best football I have seen from a Reading team. I am at a complete loss why he has not made more of his attributes since leaving us.

Totally agree with all of the above. David Pleat always maintains that McGhee made a rod for his back by prematurely bailing out at Reading and Leicester in the way that he did.

'greed, didn't we do enough one season, beating them against the odds because he was manager, to prevent Wolves going up automatically? Or have I made that up?

He left us in bad circumstances, and then knifed Leicester in the back. Either decision would have been fine, both followed by failing to take Wolves up two or three seasons running effectively finished him as a force IMO.