May I take the belated opportunity to welcome you to this board. From our dealings with you on another forum we look forward to your insightful contribution and comment.
i am an advocate of freedom of opinion and i fully support your choices to be wrong about mark hughes.
A word about Sir Alf Ramsey here, reasonable player, but took Ipswich to great heights, then of course the pinnacle of the World Cup '66. Billy Wright was another old timer, but his managerial career stalled at Arsenal I believe, and he was married to a pop star of the day, one of the Beverley Sisters?
Good shout about Sir Alf. Played 32 times for England so must have been a good player. His achievements as England manager may never be equalled.
Never worked out for Pele, Cruyff, Madonna, B Charlton or Gullit as managers. Listening to them in the dressing room/ training field you would think would just inspire anyone.
Madonna is a very interesting shout! As for Cruyff, I think you're being a little hard on him - he can look back at his time managing Ajax and Barcelona with considerable pride.
Matt Busby was a very good player. Dalglish has certainly had some success as a manager, but mainly inherited at Liverpool and bought at Blackburn.
Other than their position in the league table the situations are completely different. At the time PB was sacked we were a cash strapped club with no particularly sellable players and a hole in the budget for the following year of around £15M, more if we were to get relegated. At the present time QPR are a club that have just gone through a takeover and have an owner who wants to invest a large amount of money into the club/team and they have a player in Taarabt that is still likely to attract £10M+ bids from abroad to provide additional funds, nd a significant number of overpaid championship players out of contract in the summer to clear the squad space and wage bill.
Just thought I'd pop in to let everyone know I've changed my avatar from a Monster Raving Loony Party campaign poster to a photo of Raymond the Bastard.
Billy Wright married Joy the eldest of the Beverley Sisters in 1958.Her twin sisters Teddie and Babs completed the trio.I preferred the US Andrew Sisters.
Think the period spent disbanding that great Newcastle (everyone's second favourite team) should always even out any successes he had.
