Dec

28

If I was the Newcastle chairman…

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…I’d sack Sam Allardyce. Not for the crappy football, not for the league position, but simply for spending over £5m of the club’s money on Joey Barton.
Seriously, the lad is just trouble and the baggage he brings is not made up for by what he does on the pitch. How anyone in their right mind [...]

Nov

5

And In Third Place

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Third in the Sack Race this season is Chris Hutchings; but any team that voluntarily buys Titus Bramble is going to be onto a loser from the start (although that said, Newcastle seem to have done just as badly recently without him). There is talent at Wigan, Sibierski and Koumas for example, but there are [...]

Oct

26

Spurs are stupid

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Martin Jol takes over, gets Spurs to a creditable 5th in the table. Their highest ever Premiership finish.
The very next season he consolidates them in that position which is no small achievement with the established strength of United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool ahead of him.
This summer they spend an absolute fortune on players but due [...]

Oct

23

Who’s Next In The Sack Race?

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Well, it’s got to be Martin Jol, hasn’t it? Watching an embarrassed Paul Robinson squirm uncomfortably while Macca and Tim Sherwood pull the Spurs team apart made me think he knows something - and not how much a Wispa is.
Martin says;
Even against Newcastle we tried to come back but we concede goals at the [...]

Sep

20

Adios, Jose

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I suppose you’d have gotten long odds at the start of the season for Jose Mourinho to be the first Premier League manager to lose his job. It’s all a bit ant-climactic now that it has happened though.
We know the relationship between the manager and Abramovich has been non-existent for quite some time now and [...]

Aug

13

First sacking of the new season

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Carlisle manager Neil McDonald has been sacked after just one game of the season. They drew 1-1 away at Walsall and on Friday gave the manager £140,000 (a club record) to spend on Joe Garner from Blackburn Rovers.
Apparently sometime between giving him that money, achieving a good result away from home and this morning the [...]

May

21

Leroy Rosenior, 10 minute manager

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Bizarre.

May

20

Bond shaken and stirred by Shepherd

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Last September, when the BBC aired its Panorama program about bungs in football, Newcastle relieved Kevin Bond, one of Glenn Roeder’s coaches, from his duties at the club.
Now Newcastle have just appointed Sam Allardyce, a man implicated in far more serious offences than Bond, as its manager. Bond, as you might expect, is not happy. [...]

Apr

13

Legwinski on Chris Coleman

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“It took Coleman two years to realise how physical preparation in pre-season is vital. The work ethic was different when Tigana was in charge, it was more intense. But under Coleman the training sessions were shorter and we were given more days off.”
The former Fulham man Sylvain Legwinski speaking after Chris Coleman had been sacked [...]

Apr

11

Fulham get a Dirty Sanchez

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Chris Coleman has been sacked and Lawrie Sanchez will take over on a caretaker basis between now and the end of the season.
Not a huge shock in terms of the event itself but the timing is odd. I thought they’d wait until the end of the season. Sanchez is a strange one as well.
No Premiership [...]

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