Blue Maniac
Alzheimers sufferer
Also managed the team to the biggest ever top-flight away win, got us to our first ever European semi-final, and humbled some of the best teams in the country during his time here. Bullied both Manchester clubs on their own turf. Smashed Newcastle up repeatedly. He did some extraordinary stuff with this club that we might never have seen otherwise. Sadly for his legacy at the club, the most outstanding was getting us out of the Premier League, for which I’d argue his leadership was largely responsible, but I think it’s fair to throw a good portion of the blame at the people above him who refused to have the difficult conversations with him until it was far too late to reverse the direction we were going in. I still maintain they were a year too late removing him.I completely agree…and yet this bloke won the FA Cup. Imagine how much of a complete bastard you have to be to have fans boo you after achieving that.
The reality of the Brendan Rodgers we got is of extreme highs and lows, which in fairness to him is miles better than I expected. With the benefit of more than a year to reflect on everything, I believe my overall opinion of him has improved from before he joined us. Being a high-profile football manager is a much more difficult job than most fans have sufficient respect for, and BR didn’t necessarily make it easier for himself by playing the press game the way he does, but he had the club in a good position to make a real step up and he wasn’t backed the way he perhaps had a right to expect.