chileanspursfan
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Worst Football Managers
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dontcallme
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I'm shocked by the Rafa suggestions. He has won the CL, FA cup, runners up in CL and given some of their best ever Prem finishes at a time when Man Utd and Chelsea have been at their very best. He did a great job at Valencia too, his tactics are baffling but surely managers are judged on results and his are very good.
My picks anyway:
David Platt - single handedly destroyed Notts Forrest
Tony Adams - done awful in both managers positions he has had
Maradonna - why did anyone think it was a good idea to appoint him?
My picks anyway:
David Platt - single handedly destroyed Notts Forrest
Tony Adams - done awful in both managers positions he has had
Maradonna - why did anyone think it was a good idea to appoint him?
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Not really when you look at the context of his employment. Leeds, Forest and Pompey were all completely desperate and he did good jobs at each bearing in mind the circumstances. He plays good football and you surely don't need a list of the young players he's brought through under his tutelage to see the value he has added to his teams. In fact, I can't think of a manager who has done better in terms of bringing through youngsters and making his club money as a result - hence his popularity with Chairmen/prospective employers.
Liam Brady was and is a ****. Useless twat. Couldn't manage a... cat.
Jimmy Case was even worse a manager but a lovely, lovely man. His pride wouldn't let him quit Brighton but he spoke to my old man once and said "Dave, you've got to sack me. We're bottom of the league and I'm not helping!" A week later and Oddie Snr did exactly that but it was a hard job as he was a legend and was unlucky as opposed to completely incompetent. He did okay (but admittedly no better) with the mighty Bashley after leaving the Goldstone.
barry
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William Oddie, you're dad was the chairman of Brighton??
speccy_spur
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Trevor Francis - like Souness (who I'd put second worst) he would screw up a club, and then be quickly offered yet another top job for season after season until the penny dropped with chairmen. Will never manage again.
(Also 'cos he has a tunnel-vision hatred of Spurs).
(Also 'cos he has a tunnel-vision hatred of Spurs).
SpunkyBackpack
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Id like to throw Peter Taylor into this, did a good job of building a reputation with his England work but since then has proved to be nothing less than a complete waste of space at a fair few lower league teams, last two were Stevanage and Wycombe as far as i remember, sacked from both, plank.
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Not exactly the most loved man in Brighton these days :lol:
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No. That would be awful. He was never Chairman.
Deputy Chairman. :up:
Whatever do you mean?
The death threats? Mere flirtation!
The fact he had to change his hire car every five days as the fans beat the shit out of it when they realised it was his? A harmless hobby.
The moment fifty-odd nutters ran across the pitch and up the stands towards the executive box, forcing him to barricade himself in the board room? A tiny match of kiss-chase gone mildly out of hand.
The singing of 'Build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put Bellotti on the top...'? Virtually a love sonnet.
:wink:
CosmicHotspur
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Alan Ball. Wonderful footballer, nice man, awful manager.
Managed six clubs and "managed" to get five of them relegated.
Managed six clubs and "managed" to get five of them relegated.
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Cosmic, that's a weird coincidence given the posts beforehand. My Dad once appeared on 'Wogan', where the other guest was... Alan Ball. And just to complete the freakiness, Ball was within a week of screening appointed as Exeter City manager - the club my Dad used to bunk off school to watch and held a season ticket for for years.
Okay, it's not that freaky. Or indeed interesting. Unless you're me. Which I am. So, bugger you.
Okay, it's not that freaky. Or indeed interesting. Unless you're me. Which I am. So, bugger you.
CosmicHotspur
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... and escorted from the ground under armed guard!
... and these extracts from The Independent... explains a lot about that hard, defensive shield you sometimes display! Forgiveable and understandable under the circumstances... :wink:
Monday, 28 October 1996
Brighton and Hove Albion 0 Fulham 0
... After more than an hour of constant abuse, David Bellotti, Brighton's much-reviled chief executive, decided to retire from the directors' box, allowing the home fans to channel their energies into supporting their team...
... what, they must be wondering, might be achieved if Bellotti were to quit the directors' box for good?
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Oh, tip of the iceberg, Cosmic. So many stories! I'll tell you one day! :grin:
Suffice to say I have a much broader appreciation of what it means to be on the board of a football club and the pressures of the media, errant managers and players, and the fickle nature of fan-dom. :up:
Suffice to say I have a much broader appreciation of what it means to be on the board of a football club and the pressures of the media, errant managers and players, and the fickle nature of fan-dom. :up:
CosmicHotspur
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The worst currently employed manager has to be Diego Maradona.
His genius as a player is matched only by his buffoonery, his idiocy, as a coach.
He started by so pissing off Juan Roman Riquelme that the team's heartbeat retired from international football.
Last night, at home to Peru, the qualifying group's weakest team, he picked the truly awful honourary geordie, Jonas, as a makeshift RB, with Higuan of Real Madrid making his debut as a lone striker. Aguero and Tevez sat glumly on the bench, and eventually Maradona sent on the 35-year-old always-been-average pensioner Martin Palermo ahead of the pair.
Argentina won, with an injury time toe poke from Palermo, but they were incredibly lucky.
The best moment of the entire game was when Maradona the whale celebrated their miraculous escape by bellyflopping through the rain along the touchline. The head of the Argentine FA should have harpooned him, and despatched him to The Great Footballers' Museum In The Sky, right there and then.
His genius as a player is matched only by his buffoonery, his idiocy, as a coach.
He started by so pissing off Juan Roman Riquelme that the team's heartbeat retired from international football.
Last night, at home to Peru, the qualifying group's weakest team, he picked the truly awful honourary geordie, Jonas, as a makeshift RB, with Higuan of Real Madrid making his debut as a lone striker. Aguero and Tevez sat glumly on the bench, and eventually Maradona sent on the 35-year-old always-been-average pensioner Martin Palermo ahead of the pair.
Argentina won, with an injury time toe poke from Palermo, but they were incredibly lucky.
The best moment of the entire game was when Maradona the whale celebrated their miraculous escape by bellyflopping through the rain along the touchline. The head of the Argentine FA should have harpooned him, and despatched him to The Great Footballers' Museum In The Sky, right there and then.
spursandbarca
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and 34 year old Palmermo who until this year hadnt played for argentina for 8 scored the winner.
