Premier League 2017/18
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Blue Maniac
Alzheimers sufferer
bocadillo
Water Gypsy
Good move. They've obviously accepted their fate and are planning for Championship football.
Miles Away
Well-Known Member
Lambert to Stoke is just amazing. Fate sealed surely?
pork pie fox
Well-Known Member
Paddy Power seem to think so.
FOX Franks
Well-Known Member
Lambert: "we've got what it takes to stay up"
Must be nice calming words for stoke fans coming from a man who has only ever been relegated from the league as a manager.
(Fact check that - Norwich might have stayed up for a season with him)
Must be nice calming words for stoke fans coming from a man who has only ever been relegated from the league as a manager.
(Fact check that - Norwich might have stayed up for a season with him)
Blue Maniac
Alzheimers sufferer
He’s actually never been relegated.
tedfoxxx
Well-Known Member
They were pretty good when they first came up, harnessing the power of Grant Holt.
glyn
Well-Known Member
Not Ulloa yet then?
FOX Franks
Well-Known Member
Really? Presumably always fired from teams that then got relegated?
He just feels like a relegation-y sort of manager. Weird.
Blue Maniac
Alzheimers sufferer
Not even that. Though he left them in the relegation zone, Villa survived the year he got the sack. He was only Norwich boss for one year in the Premier League.
FOX Franks
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Wanted to drag this to this thread, as the Leicester Watford thing will close but this is a big discussion point.
What I cannot understand is why Marco Silva - relegated with Hull, and only good for a half season with Watford - get excuses made for them and another top job almost immediately (for the record, I think Soton is likely for him) and English managers ie Mark Hughes has a decent few seasons with stoke, without setting the world alight, but then he’s suddenly not even mentioned.
We lament the presence of English football managers (or lack thereof) whilst also condemning them to the scrap heap if, inevitably, the club they take over has a bad patch.
We make excuses like “doesn’t know the premier league” for foreign failures, who then get another position...
I’m sure I will be told otherwise - but to me it certainly feels like that, although I’m aware is hypocrisy to say that after my derision of Paul Lambert... ah well
He's Welsh.
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Championship
| P | Pld | Pts | |
| 1 | Ipswich | 43 | 89 |
| 2 | Leicester | 42 | 88 |
| 3 | Leeds Utd | 43 | 87 |
| 4 | Southampton | 42 | 84 |
| 5 | West Brom | 43 | 72 |
| 6 | Norwich City | 43 | 71 |
| 7 | Hull City | 42 | 65 |
| 8 | Coventry City | 42 | 63 |
| 9 | Middlesbro | 43 | 63 |
| 10 | Preston | 43 | 63 |
| 11 | Cardiff City | 43 | 59 |
| 12 | Bristol City | 43 | 58 |
| 13 | Sunderland | 43 | 56 |
| 14 | Swansea City | 43 | 53 |
| 15 | Watford | 43 | 52 |
| 16 | Millwall | 43 | 50 |
| 17 | Blackburn | 43 | 49 |
| 18 | Plymouth | 43 | 48 |
| 19 | QPR | 43 | 47 |
| 20 | Stoke City | 43 | 47 |
| 21 | Birmingham | 43 | 45 |
| 22 | Huddersfield | 43 | 44 |
| 23 | Sheffield W | 43 | 44 |
| 24 | Rotherham Utd | 43 | 23 |
