I saw my.Facebook status about this on Timehop. He'd lost the plot, but we should never of sacked him with 10 games to go.
So Phil Brown was the soul of Hull City . Does that mean the club had no soul for the hundred years before him??
You suggest "The soul of Hull City" is somehow related and affected by the treatment of Phil Brown! That's the kind of sycophantic shyte I would expect from a Bullard lover with a hard-on for Duffen ..... Oh hang on...
Yes I did, and it was. This was a man who forever changed the history of Hull City AFC and we put him on "gardening leave"? Give me a break. It was an awful, awful way to treat the man who made the single greatest contribution of any man ever to this great club. Yes, it will forever tarnish the soul of Hull City. It was a complete disgrace.
Bollocks. We were on a downward spiral to relegation and his only answer was to lose the dressing room, install the naughty step and continue his own clown-like self-publicity campaign which had already made a laughing-stock of the club. His replacement was clueless, but Brown still earned his fate.
The timing of PB's sacking was stupid, the results were going the wrong way, but if he was to go, then it should have been sooner. I did feel sorry for him at that time, I was also hoping we got that boost that other teams get when they replace a manager, but then along came Dowie!
It pales into insignificance compared to the tarnishing that's taken place over the past eighteen months.
City collapsed late on at Portsmouth in Dowie's first game I recall. If we'd just hung on a few more minutes the season might have been different.
Treat Brown like ****. Treat our greatest ever Captain like ****. Did absolutely **** all with our academy.
I'd respond to this thread but I think Craig's doing a good enough job on his own The one thing that I will say is that he should have been shown the door the previous November
(1) Peter Taylor started our revival with two successive promotions, Brownie (legend though he is) simply continued his work. (2) Certainly up to that point, but Steve Bruce has, I think, achieved more. I do agree that sacking him at that point as a mistake, hiring Dowie was an even bigger one.
