What's that got to do with it? This was inevitable; I gave him support simply because of the ****s above him, but I never rated him as a tactician. We move on, as someone must be lined up.
With hindsight it looks better, but when the team was named it looked terrible given the fact he has played two terrible games there previously and never looked convincing. Marshall has been terrible all season, really can't understand the love he seems to get. We looked pretty good in August actually. Our manager won manager of the month because of it.
I'm not massively disappointed, sadly it probably needed to be done, although what happens next will be interesting
Enjoy the "there must be something lined up" train of thought. Famous last words where the Allams are concerned.
Hope he gets another job soon. One thing for certain is that his football CV won't have taken a knock after what's he had to go through.
I actually thought we looked absolutely **** and managed to fluke our way to two wins largely due to abhorrent finishing by Swansea and Leicester. Vardy should have had a hat trick and us be 5-0 down by half time, likewise Swansea.
I thought we set up quite well for who we were playing - that meant sitting deep against Leicester to nullify Vardy and Musa's pace - and it meant retaining the ball against Swansea. Going into both games the players talked about how much research Phelan did on the opposition and how he set us up to counter those two teams' styles. What ever happened to that? Seemed to go out the window after the first month.
