We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
Whoever had Steve Bruce as the first Premiership manager to be sacked in the their pools has won a packet this week. Yes - after a rotten run of form that has the Black Cats sliding toward the dropzone, the former ManYoo supremo has been shown the door at the Stadium of Light. Well - Sven's available?
posted by The Blue Devil @ 1:03 AM
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
9 Comments:
There's an interesting piece in the Guardian by Louise Taylor that poses a larger question than simply pointing out Brucie's short-comings, though it does give him a bit of a kicking as well. And the question is this: There are a number of guys now who've played under SAF who've gone on to management when their careers finished, Hughes, Bruce, Robson, Keane, and all of them learned the inspirational side of management. However, most of them have been sacked, some repeatedly because they've displayed none of the tactical nous of their mentor. Why aren't they more successful?
The link to the article is here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/nov/30/steve-bruce-sunderland-sacked
Speak of the Devil, it's Sparky that's in the frame for Sunderland. Sunderland's fair-play status plummets in anticipation.
I suppose that if Sunderland plump for Sparky, they can continue the pipe-line of ManYoo scrubs shed by Fergie coming to the Stadium of Light?
Brucie was not one of my favorites to win the sack race at the beginning of the season, but Sunderland were in a bad run of form. Therefore he was due for the sack even though it is ironic that he won the race ahead of Steve Keane and Owen Coyle. Gooner listed former SAF players who have not been successful managers and I agree with the exception of Sparky Hughes. I thought he did a decent job at Fulham and Blackburn Rovers based on the fact that those clubs are doing worse than when he was in charge. I do agrre that they seem tactically naive. I think Sparky Hughes would do a decent if not spectacular job at the SOL.Definitely not Sven , who won the sack race in the Championship!
MUR, the only possible reasons that Kean's not been sacked is the stack of photos he's got stashed away of the Venky's doing disgraceful things with chickens.
Mark my words, Sparky if picked, will energize them just enough to survive. But they'll just play the same God-awful s***e that all of his teams play, brutally. He thinks a tactic is a breath mint.
Boom boom, Gooner! Nice one!
It is not Fergie's fault for their failings. Alex McCleish has done quite well with Aberdeen, Rangers, Brum and Villa
Nah, I don't think you can blame the mentor, but isn't it surprizing that none of them absorbed the lessons of strategy and tactics?
I didn't think of McCleish because he was at Aberdeen, but he's another one good only for gee-ing up Championship level side to get more-or-less safely into the Prem. You have to put a massive asterisk next to his record at Rangers just because of the structure of the game in Scotland, and Koz and Woitek did more for Brum than anything McCleish did. His record at Villa has been a very slow climb from abject to average IMHO.
No offense, but I think it's strange that all of these guys have played for one of THE master strategists in the history of the English, even European game, and only come out of the experience with a understanding of how to boost moral.
And it's Martin O'Neal that gets the job. Is it a surprise that he gets the nod as a graduate of Cloughie's insights rather than Sparky whose record doesn't reflect the time he could have been absorbing SAF's approach to the game?
Post a Comment
<< Home