God we are so so lucky to have Nigel. There are too many winging whining mangers out there. Just heard Wenger after losing at Swansea, moaning as usual, then there is Poyet, Cotterill, Lennon the list goes on and on! We should count our blessings and praise Cortese for having the good sense to bring in Nigel to drive our bus! Which managers do you love to hate?
Well the last few games have been bad enough considering our re-aligned aims and he has remained the perpetual optimist.
Mick Mccarthy does my head in. I don't think I've ever watched an interview where he hasn't moaned about the ref!! Class A Prick!!
A few years ago when he was managing Sunderland in the Championship, I played a round of golf with Mick McCarthy. My mate is a Sunderland fan and won the round of golf and took me. I can tell you now he is a sound, down to earth bloke and a real gentleman. Your closing comment is abit rich if you have no idea at all what he's like as a person. He showed absolutely no signs of being arrogant or even "above" us all afternoon. He even took in good sport the fact I played the round in my Saints polo shirt. He talked thoroughly about his career, the club and what his plans were. Oh and all this the day before the play-off semi final against Palace. So, not a prick, but a good old fashioned gentleman who says it as he sees it.
I think you've got McCarthy mixed up with Warnock. McCarthy normally moans about his own team if anything. things like 'we can't afford to make those kind of mistakes at this level' or 'we have got to concentrate for the full 90 minutes'. He complains about refs but no more than any other prem manager. Prem refs tend to do a lot that warrants a moaning about I never liked (nor rated) Mourinho. Got to the Champions league final with Porto because of a last minute dive against Man U (and that after Man U had a goal ruled offside both home and away that were not offside) yet didn't even acknowledge it. Just warbled on about how good his team were. Then he inherited a Chelsea team that Ranieri had built and got to second place in the league and took the credit for it when the addition of Drogba (who was already agreed when Ranieri was there) finished the jigsaw to make that step up to Champions. To cap it all his defend, defend and counter in every match plus the way his teams do anything to win (cheat, dive, arguing, card waving) really riles me. Only thing I do like is the way he plays on the media's 'perception' of him. He plays up to the personaliuty they created and is quite humourous with it.
