I see Rosler's gone - Whelan has wielded the axe with Wigan dropping into the bottom 3. Malky installed as odds on favourite for the job. He's been tipped for a few manager's jobs that have come up recently with no luck - anyone think he'll go on to get this one? http://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/wigan/next-permanent-manager
That comment was aimed at Malky not you Sparks. I've had enough of the whole Malky circus and wonder if the club would have been in better shape if we hadn't been promoted.
Good luck to him. Everyone deserves a second chance.. It's not like the bloke was wandering around in a white hood burning crosses.
If he gets it, then he gets it. VT clearly stopped him getting the big one he wanted. He is a football man and has to start again somewhere. Time for everyone to move on.
The best of luck to one of the most successful managers this club has ever produced. Any time now a new poisonous statement will be released by Tan I expect.
I wasn't going to involve myself in one of these arguments but you raise an interesting point. If Tan does start slagging off MM again, attempting to blacken his name further then that can be considered very vindictive imo. The situation has been settled from a club point of view. If nothing comes out then maybe you and a few other anti tan/pro MM posters will have to consider that the last info given to the FA was the club 'doing the right thing' after giving MM and moody the chance to do it themselves. 2 points to clarify in my post, I would not be in the least surprised to see more anti MM info emerge from Tan and secondly even if the club were doing the right thing I'm sure Tan was absolutely over the moon he 'cost' MM the Palace job. However telling the FA was 100% the correct and legal thing to do.
Stevo! I'm afraid Tan's moral crusade went out the window the day we signed Ravel Morrison on loan. Simple case of double standards and gross hypocrisy for me. No one will convince me Tan is anything but a vindictive little man who hated the adulation Malky once had amongst the majority of City fans. Malky made a crass mistake with the texts and has acknowledged that mistake. He has been punished and now it's time for him to be given a new lifeline. Just a little reminder of our loan signings escapades : http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17039385
I agree MM should be allowed to move on. It is up to each club & fans to judge where their own moral boundaries are. Marlon King and Lee Hughes were both allowed back into the game. Sheffield Utd are obviously flirting with alienating a part of their fan base with Evans. I would be gutted if a convicted rapist ever played for us. It would make me seriously consider my support. I would have preferred we didn't sign Ravel, I acknowledged before he arrived he was a different level of quality though and could do a job. I do think players are slightly different to a manager though. Your manager is a major part of the image of the entire club. Football has numerous questionable characters that are playing and tend to be filed somewhere under 'absolute bellend but he's a great player' and accepted by fans, media and the general public. I may be missing something but it's nowhere near as common with managers.
You're dead right Steve. Footballers get away with a lot and have to do something really awful before they suffer major consequences, like the ones you mentioned and the keeper, Luke McCormick who did time for his part in a fatal car accident. However, managers generally have to be squeaky clean, look at Big Ron Atkinson's racist gaff on camera, as well as Malkygate. Don't know if true or not but Pardew was hurried out of Southampton after allegedly giving some "private training" to the wives of the then Chairman and some of the players. I suppose players can "hide in the crowd" but managers are on a pinnacle to be shot down for any transgressions.
There's no question that Tan should call it a day on the "Malky era" - he's shown himself to be a ruthless person not to be crossed. He possess the immense financial clout to pursue issues both legally and morally if he chooses. His financial resources speak for themselves, but by morally I mean he can enlist the support of pressure groups (ethnic, homophobic and sexist) to support his case whether or not those were the real reasons to dump Mackay. It's definitely time to move on - in fact long overdue - but perhaps some fans should heed that advice as well rather than looking for another problem before it arises.
I agree managers have to be squeaky clean as opposed to players. But the guys who seem to be above all repercussions are chairmen/owners who are seemingly insulated against bad performance e.g. Daniel Levy or others who have been involved in any business misdemeanor!
