It would only take a few duff performances and he'd be chased out with torches and pitchforks cartoon style.
That's what Karanka did to Boro. Took a team that finished 16th and conceded 70 goals the season before he arrived and took them up.
Clark!!!! No, just ****ing no!!!!!! Acne clad **** is ****ing ****e anyway. I'd rather have Big Ronnie from Hull.
What about Alan Shearer? He' got experience of managing which he will have learned from and speaks well as a pundit about the game. One of mates from over Byker gets a lot of info coming out of that club and he says Shearer actually has a soft spot for us. Outside the box appointment?
Just been down the bar & glanced through the paper while having a pint. He reckons he's got dementia from heading the ball. Should fit right in at Sunderland.
What’s the significance of the placement? In this scenario I’m already a giant penis so having one on my forehead doesn’t really matter, ha.
I wouldn't necessarily be against Clark in theory, only that he's gone off the boil a bit as a manager. I thought the t-shirt thing was a bit silly really. I didn't see it as him taking the piss out of us, just his mates taking the piss out of him. But some delicate flowers chose to be offended by it and as a result we lost a good player. Whoever comes in, it has to be someone who can sort out the defence, instill some team spirit, ditch the lazy players, and get the fans back onside. For obvious reasons Clark isn't going to do that. But then neither are Karanka or Laudrup. People like Paul Hurst and Nathan Jones are unknown quantities really because they've got no experience at this level or with a club our size but they are both impressing with their current clubs. Jones has managed something like 100 games at Luton and has 49% win ratio. We don't need dinosaurs like Walter Smith, Harry Redknapp, or Ally McCoist; their day has gone and Smith has done nowt for years. For similar reasons, I wouldn't want Peter Reid on his own. He hasn't managed since 2011 and he's had little to no success since he left us. If he came with Paul Cook from Wigan though, that might be a different story. I've heard that Cook is good at generating team spirit and makes himself popular with the fans. With Reid's experience fiestiness that sounds like the best option I've heard so far. Whatever happens, this appointment needs to come with a change in approach from Short and Bain. We need someone who will be given time to build his own team and who will both want to, and be allowed to, see the project through. Even if we are relegated. The short-termism that the club displays is one of the many reasons we're in this mess.
Seems his ‘injury’ and the lay off time seems perfect timing that’s he’s fit to be sold. Good riddance as well the ****ing ****er.
I worked with one of Lee Clarks best friends who was with him in London, and he swore down that he didn't know anything about the t-shirt and he went mad with them when he found out.
Yeah, it's true. It's a shame how that played out. The t-shirt thing never bothered me as I've never classed myself as a mackem so it wasn't in the least bit offensive, to me.
