Ranieri out

[homer]

Why Mancini?

That Moon River was something special

A man who can write that can surely kick Vardy up hs bony arse

 

[Volpone]

Why Mancini?

Why not?

 

[Lako42]

Why not?

Has he ever managed a provincial, relegation flirting club?

Just not sure where he fits in with us.

 

[Lako42]

Why not?

Also, we have a manager

 

[Volpone]

Has he ever managed a provincial, relegation flirting club?

Has Ranieri?

 

[FIF]

Jesus didn't resurrect at all as he's a made up character. I only wish NP was as well.

He is a made up character. You don't think the wolf fighting, ostrich hating, miracle performing man is real do you?

 

[FIF]

Nigel Pearson is not the Messiah, he is a very naughty boy.

You've got to look on the bright side of life.

 

[FIF]

Agree with every word of this...

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...-says-sunday-supplement-panellist-steve-bates

Just a journalist with nothing new to say getting on a bandwagon.

 

[Brown Nose]

 

[Brown Nose]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04...bbc_sport&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=sport

 

[homer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04...bbc_sport&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=sport

Holy sweet baby Jebus

 

[SilverFox]

And a quick Google search reveals this Merson bounty...


20. "When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long."
19. "After Chelsea scored, Bolton epitulated."
18. "He done great to get where he got."
17. "Scoring goals is the hardest thing in football but doing it in a struggling team is double harder."
16. "Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now."
15. "They're not that very good, Napoli."
14. "If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’."
13. "There's only one person gets you sacked and that's the fans."
12. "You can’t bite your nose off to spite your face."
11. "Swansea's right-back, Rangel Angel, will be putting the crosses in."
10. "It was a damp squid for Liverpool."
9. "Reading won't have the confidence to be confident."
8. "Goals dictate how matches go."
7. "People just looked lost. Too many players looked like fish on trees."
6. "The new manager has given us unbelivable belief."
5. "You usually like to play promoted sides around Christmas. They have got two lungs at the moment."
4. "Liverpool have just rolled the last bit of dice."
3. "For this game only, Burnley won't change their style of play. And for certain other games too."
2. "When defenders get ran at they're not as great as what they are."
1. "They're lacking that real streak of bang."

 

[yackandandah]

7. "People just looked lost. Too many players looked like fish on trees."

I quite like that one...

 

[SilverFox]

We could change our club badge to a fish inhabited tree.

 

[bocadillo]

7. "People just looked lost. Too many players looked like fish on trees."

It's the fish's fault. They made the tree slippy and the elephant lost its grip.

 

[David Gwilliam]

That is a cliché and like many clichés is just not true.
It was off field not the fans who got Tommy Docherty sacked from Man U straight after winning the FA Cup and having a brilliant season.
It was off-field that got Nigel Pearson sacked from Leicester.
Glen Hoddle was sacked by England for having religious views shared by hundreds of millions around the world.
It was Sir Alf's insistence that he and not the FA ran the England team that meant Sir Harold Thompson was looking for an excuse to sack the greatest England manager.
My impression is that both times Jose Mourinho was sacked the Chelsea fans still backed him.

 

[popillius]

...Glen Hoddle was sacked by England for having religious views shared by hundreds of millions around the world....

I'm assuming you have a short memory or misunderstood completely what happened with this sacking. Hoddle was removed because he said;

"You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime"

This is not only deeply offensive and tasteless but irretrievably stupid, especially for a man representing his country's interests on a world sporting stage.

He wasn't sacked because he believed in such mumbo jumbo, he was sacked because he used his position to air such vitriol to a huge audience, a lot of which were the very same disabled people he seemed to be so disgustingly dismissive of.

Please don't try and defend him. Hoddle was a great coach who could have done a very good job but he let his ludicrously offensive and ill informed beliefs get in the way of doing his job properly in many ways - this was just one example amongst many.

 

[jb5000]

I struggle to find the offense in that, and I know that it's fashionable to look really hard these days. At no point did Hoddle call for disabled people to be treated poorly or with a lack of respect (indeed, what person who believed in karma would be so foolish).

The hypocrisy of those elements of the press who took time out from chastising disabled benefit claimants to hound the man, now that was offensive. I'd wonder what those journalists, readers, advertisers and so on might become in their next lives, but they already appear to be algae.

 

[jb5000]

That is a cliché and like many clichés is just not true.
It was off field not the fans who got Tommy Docherty sacked from Man U straight after winning the FA Cup and having a brilliant season.
It was off-field that got Nigel Pearson sacked from Leicester.
Glen Hoddle was sacked by England for having religious views shared by hundreds of millions around the world.
It was Sir Alf's insistence that he and not the FA ran the England team that meant Sir Harold Thompson was looking for an excuse to sack the greatest England manager.
My impression is that both times Jose Mourinho was sacked the Chelsea fans still backed him.

Ah, but the cliche that cliches become cliches because they contain the truth holds up here. You've been able to reel off a handful of sackings for 'other' reasons, but I think you'd have difficulty trebling it - meanwhile the list of managers sacked this season alone for the traditional football related reasons is already longer than your list.

 

[yackandandah]

The hypocrisy of those elements of the press who took time out from chastising disabled benefit claimants to hound the man, now that was offensive.

Perhaps not the paper(s) you're referring to but I lost a great deal of respect for The Independent due to its handling of that issue.