Could anybody clarify whether Iain Dowie has been doing the Soccer Saturday reports at the KC for the past couple of games. I've seen a bald fella at the top of West Upper last two with a camera etc. Thanks!
The guy with sliver hair was doing it for the ipswich game, having got a clue what he's called though
That's like saying, why slag Bullard off? It was Brown/Duffen that employed him. Dowie is an absolute clown. Just because he was not top of the hierachy does not mean he is not to blame.
It could be either Bryn Law OR David Craig from the hair descriptions given. When Deano gets back home its time for SKY to sack Dowie and re-employ Deano. Far funnier to listen too.
Dowie had some very easy games though. Under Pb we only lost home games to Man U, Arsenal and Tottenham, under Dowie (with the hard matches over and done with) we lost to Villa, Sunderland and Burnley. PB's record says we'd have definitely not lost those last 3 games, that's an extra 3 points minimum.
Selective amnesia. When Brownie was consigned to his garden, we'd just lost four games on the bounce and we'd only won once in the past four months. I find it ironic that so many people slagged off Pearson for playing **** football, when we'd endured over a year of worse football just before it. Dowie was ****ing hopeless, Pearson turned out to be a ****er, but Brownie was ****e for a year before them too.
When it all went wrong for City, from December in our first prem season onwards, we still played ok football both home and away. We weren't getting the points but the criticism he got from all the pundits wasn't warranted. We were still going for it, but the lack of ability shone through in the end. Sometimes class tells. I'd say towards the back end of Brownies era at city, the football on show was useless. We hardly put two decent matches together and had no form whatsoever. For example, the Chelsea & Man City matches, where we got 4 points & everything seemed to be rosey, then we went down to play the cockney wideboys at Upton Park and got battered and in the process they made us look like a sunday league outfit. His last stand v Arsenal at the KC was a good match, but by then change was upon us and, well, it wasn't meant to be. Don't get me started on Dowie. It was a ****e appointment. The Pompey and Burnley matches confirmed we weren't good enough and deserved relegation.
I'm fully aware we were **** but we were a small club for that league, being **** was exactly what was expected of us. Thing is we had one year of relatively massive success before succumbing to an inevitable drop in form. The fact we lost games at Everton, West Ham and at home to Arsenal is no reason for the manager to be sacked. If we were Man U maybe but we weren't, we were a team expected to fight for our lives. My post was simply pointing out that their managerial tenures were not the same just because we were in the same league position. PB managed us in much harder games and as I've already said, we picked up points in almost every home game, leaving Dowie with easier home games at the end of the season but we ****ed them all up under him. There's no way we'd have had that 4-1 against Burnley or the pathetic 1-0 against Sunderland with PB in charge. We'd have at least tried.
funny that, because we had lost 4 at home before brown left and we had not got anywhere near to taking a point off sunderland in the 3 previous prem games with them. our away record improved under dowie - 2 points from 4 games compared with 4 from 15 under brown so not all bad then! the hard games were over? in your imagination! the final three games were against one team that had put 5 past us the season before, one that had put 4 past us twice and another that had put 6 past us the previous season plus villa who had beaten us 3 times already without us even scoring against them. then there's burnley had beaten us at their place earlier in the season and have now done the double over us for the last three seasons, so they're plainly easy pickings. birmingham had already beaten us at the kc, stoke was never going to be easy, and we should have done better against portsmouth.
