A quote from one of the protesting Cardiff fans: "It's outrageous. It's great we have an owner who's got the money but I just want him to stay an owner who's got the money and not try to run the club." Thanks for the money, now just b..... off. Says it all.
I think the problemis,and I think it was Mary Poppins on MOTD (Or it may have been Savage)who said the problem is that Tan has top six delusions.Cardiff are a club like us.Success is survival and the occasional foray into the top half. Look at the table this morning.The top eight have claims to be there on account of them being the big teams.Saints have done amazingly well to be ninth and the other eleven are fighting to avoid the drop.Welcome to life in The Premiership Mr Tan 16th is as good as it gets.
Clearly Tan just needed a better excuse to sack Malky and a 3-0 loss was that excuse. I can't see anyone coming in and doing a better job than Malky, to be honest, I can't see anyone wanting to go into a job with Tan looming over them.
I doubt if the match had very much to do with it apart from the exact timing. I said we'd soon see who holds the aces, Tan, or Malky and the protesting fans. Well we now have the answer, Tan does. And Mr Tan has quite rightly pointed a finger at the manner in which confidentiality has been deliberately broken (and the likes of Kinnock involved): "Far too much dirty linen has been exposed to the public gaze but, I stress, not by me." No doubt he will continue to be dismissed widely as "a clown", but I suspect we will see there's a lot more substance to him than people think.
Holding the aces?If we wanted any proof that he is a clown we have it in spades.And he's certainly played the death card for Cardiff.Do you see what I did there?
The clowns are taking over and things are going to change. Tan seems to have learned from TF's experience at QPR -- don't trust people who claim to "know about football". All they know about is spending other people's money and bankrupting their clubs while feathering their own nests.
I've just read an amazing statistic, although can't verify it's true. Wenger has now been in charge of Arsenal longer than all of the other Prem managers together have been in charge of their clubs in the Premiership!
Cardiff were reported to have spoken to a potential manager described as "a household name". I hardy think Solskjaer would fit that description. Anyway, Solskjaer has previously said he does not want to uproot his young family, so the likelihood is that he will stay at Molde. Nor do I think Tan will be looking to make that sort of appointment. He will more likely be looking for managerial maturity and experience.
What conclusion do you draw vietnam? That club boards generally are no more sensible than the least sensible of their fans? <bigwinknudgenudge>
Certainly just as trigger-happy . On a serious level, it does show how cut-throat football has become and how little pleasure there now is for supporters of all but a few, select clubs. On Solskjaer, I really hope you are right. I want Cardiff to get someone off the merry-go-round of cast-offs, not a potential wunderkind of management who can phone SAF and get some tips. Maybe we can send him some photos of the old Tiger Bay and tell him 'Oh, this is the area where all the schools are in Cardiff. And these are the female teachers.'
There's still plenty of pleasure to be had. I think it was Diogenes who observed that the answer lies in one's own hands since it is easier to change oneself than the world.
Yeah, but I don't want to live in a tub, thank you very much! Is he the guy who is reputed to have said to Alexander the Great when the latter asked him if he could do anything for him: 'Yes, get out of the way, your shadow is blocking the sunlight'?
You could draw the conclusion that patience or belief in past successes can cloud judgement and result in clinging on to a regime past its sell by date. When did the gooners last lift a trophy? Bah!
Nothing to do with past success in Arsenal's case. Deliberate strategy of paying off the cost of building the Emirates and developing a new team around young home-grown players like Wilshere, Ramsay, Gibbs, etc. The lack of success is largely accounted for by losing the likes of Fabregas, Nasri, Clichy, Van Persie to personal ambition and petro-dollars. Of course, lack of success is relative; consistent top four finish and Champions League knock-out stage qualification would be success in most people's books.
