And 52000 crying Jawdees (and 8 1/2 million on the waiting list) Today 1999. ****ing pissing down. Rudd Guillet drops Saint Alan of Shearer. Bish bash wallop. 1-2 at the bigtop. SNQ and SKP.. Toon braced for a riot. Pack your bags Agent Rudd. Over and out.
End of the diabolical reign of Guillet, SBR straight in afterwards, the beginning of a golden era for us!
Cant believe he dropped Shearer for the derby. Even if Shearer had lost a leg after being chased and violently beaten by an angry mob after being exposed as a *****, you'd still have expected him to be picked for the derby.
Yeah I will deny it, I never wanted him to leave. The Fat One (the original fat one, not the current fat one) sacked him not me.
Guillet and Shearer hated each other, Shearer said later the situation between them was so bad they couldn't be around each other and one of them had to leave, thankfully it was Guillet. So in a perverse way its almost fortunate we lost that match, cos if we'd won, the likely result would have been Shearer being sold and that clown staying on as manager. For that match Guillet preferred Paul Robinson, the Pele of Jarrow Roofing, up front.
I sat in an office of half a dozen otherwise intelligent town supporters and all of them wanted him sacked. They were saying that he had basically lost it.
I wouldn't say "lost it" but saying he'd taken us as far as he could may have been true. Sheppard had said 04/05 would be Robsons last season and Robson agreed that and said he'd help find the next manager. That would have been the best scenario imo, instead though Robson got sacked after 4 games, there were no decent managers available and we ended up for Souness and everything fell apart.
I was actually invited to a corporate day at SJP and heard for myself the boo's and heckling aimed at SBR....so please, lets not have any of this crap that the fans didn't want him out. Like pretty much all your managers, you hounded the guy out the door. The Chairman was merely doing what the fans wanted.
I remained a few years shy of 30 on that day, stuck out in Portugal having formally broken up with my lass of the time (while there). I had to rely on internet cafes to get the sports news/updates so spent the evening trying to find one. I was happy as **** when I did, and went out on the lash in Lisbon....on me tod. Happy days....
It's a great city. Bit naughty round the edges which keeps it lively, and a few beers then a night on vodka tonic around Baro Alto (spelling?) was good entertainment. I was staying about 30km out on the coast past Cascais, and no idea how I got back that night. Maybe I didn't... .
As I recall he also dropped Duncan Ferguson to the bench. Some commentator wag described his selection as less like team sheet, more like a suicide note. I THINK that this was the game where the TV interviewed a soaking wet Captain,Kevin Ball, after the game. 'Do you think this game should have been played in those conditions' asked the idiot of the Sunderland Captain. Kevin collapsed laughing.
