Yep, agree entirely, time we moved on... Aaaw, hell no. Here we go again... Phil Brown would have kept us up, we had winnable games against Portsmouth, Burnley(which until Sheff Utd at home last season was hands down the worst day I've ever had as a City fan) and Sunderland, winning two out of the three would have kept us up, and that was not impossible, far from it. If we'd got a decent manager to replace him this whole "he needed to go thing" may have some credit, but we didn't we got IAIN ****ING DOWIE, and we didn't even have the sense to bring in his brother Bob, who for some reason I find hilarious. No, IAIN ****ING DOWIE was in charge of this club less than two years ago, how absurd does that sound? The whole thing was a debacle on so many levels, and even if we had gone down under Brown at least we'd have done it the right way, the way the whole thing happened just makes me feel cheated out of our Premier League days, as we never had a hope in hell under Dowie.
Agree with this, I also accept Dowie was totally the wrong signing, possibly the worse possible option anyone could select. Watching Brownie on last nights football league show just confirmed that the man is deluded, egotistical and completely out of touch with people. To use a managerial expression, he is totally lacking emotional intelligence which explains why he lost the dressing room, the naughty step and inept signings.
Different feeling I guess, watching Late Kick Off last night just made me realise what we're missing.
With regards to Brown 'would keep us up', no he wouldn't have done. We'd only won 5 games all season until mid March, If you're honest that isn't form of a team doomed to relegation I don't know what is. I know he left on a good performance against Arsenal, but how many times did we see good performances like that against the top 6 only to be let down with poor performances against the teams around us. Pompey, Stoke, Burnley, Brum and Sunderland were all winnable games but given the poor away form and form over the season saying Brown would have kept us up is folly. As for taking us back up again, the financial problems would still be there, we'd lose the same players and would we have attracted Koren, Chester etc in with Brown? All hypothetical I know, but regardless of who we had managing us at the start of last season, we were fighting a losing battle to be among the front runners for promotion. I'm grateful to Brownie and the good work he did for us and giving us the memories of the Premier League, but we have Barmby now, there's nothing that makes me wish we had Brownie back. If he was that 'good', why haven't the likes of QPR, Sunderland and championship teams come in for him as manager? Good anager but not without his shortcomings, as his sacking at Preston and people's opinon of him suggests.
Yeah, that was very interesting. He was firm in his statement that he ran the footballing side, Duffen the financial. So I'd say it was definitely Duffen who didn't tell him the truth. Odd that he still speaks to them, I wouldn't but it's his choice. I don't. The good times under Browny were glorious and will likely never be repeated. But the more it went on, the more it showed it was just the right circumstances. Neither he nor Duffen knew what to do next. They wanted to take us to the next level but had no idea how to establish us at the level we needed to be at first. Brown wouldn't have kept us up. I'm sure of that. We hadn't been good enough all season. We hadn't beaten the teams we needed to beat consistently for over a year. Sacking him was a pointless exercise because it was 5 months too late but it didn't change anything. I like Phil Brown. If he says he didn't have anything to do with the financial calamity, I'll believe him. And I'll never forget the highs. But he wasn't harshly treated by our football club, not ever.
