He did lose the plot unfortunately, OLM is right, you can take your pick from a number of events on and off the pitch, I would date it from starting with the team-talk on the pitch, even now people remember him for the bizarre Humber Bridge incident off-the pitch. I can remember an after match interview he did where he made less sense than Dowie, and thats for starters. I've said it before but he seemed to have an Alan Partridge style meltdown with his ego. City legend though and I appreciate what he did but to say he was all good is blinkered
He got found out. Simple really. I remember that season with the bizarre team selections and even more mind boggling substitutions, not to mention the formations, he alone was responsible for. He's really not, and never was, as good as he believed himself to be.
why do so many people insist on using the boxing day game as the start of our demise. In reality, it started a few games before that. Id say the game where we were 'mugged' at home to Bolton was a bigger watershed for our Murdoch League fantasy.
I'd say the Sunderland game before the Man City game was far more significant in our change in tactics, it was then that Brownie ditched the gung-ho approach.
Remember all the people criticising Bo when we were in the PL. Granted Hodgson didn't rate him but I think Bo is perfect for us (it was only his wages which made us sell him). Did he keep his house in the area?
It's a football discussion forum. There's a difference between discussing the merits of a football manager and gratuitous rudeness.
I don't think City fans expected us to get less points than Derby. It was fans and journalists who didn't know anything about us.
That's always the risk with getting promotion. Mid table doesn't usually keep a manager in their job either, though.
Most teams who don't get relegated in their first season in the PL tend to buy better players to consolidate. City, on the other hand, sold their best player.
That match was one of a string of games in which the results caused Brown to panic. This was despite the loss being more down to an incredible goalkeeping display at the end than most of the match being a below average team performance.
With Sunderland there was always going to be a risk that we'd get hurt for trying to get back in the game like we did. Wasn't the Villa game the start of the "all out defence"? We packed the midfield and didn't realise they were there for the taking until the last few minutes.
Saw this in the Mirror today. Quite amusing... "Phil Brown was always going to leave Preston once winter hit – it was then that his position as manager became *untannable. After failing to save Preston from relegation last season and in the wake of a dismal run of form, Brown must have known he was baking in the Last-Chance Salon yet said his sacking came as a shock. Bronze said he should have been given more time – £5 for three minutes is simply extortionate. He will now swap Deepdale for Deeptan. In the race to replace him, Billy Davies is 13-10 favourite with Victor Chandler for reasons that escape me. There can only be one winner – and, looking at the candidates, it sure as hell won’t be Preston. To replace Brown (VC bet): 13-10 B Davies, 4-1 D Jones, 7-1 G Alexander, 8-1 S O’Driscoll, 12-1 D Unsworth, 14-1 bar."
No-one can defend Phil Brown's descent at Hull City. In much the same way as no-one can deny that from January 2007 until December 2008 he was utterly brilliant.
