Who Could Be the Next Manager

Have a day off mate. Everyone knows you're hard for Mousinho. Your love of pompey this year is ****ing boring.

 

As much as I think Ian posts some far fetched tripe at times, this is probably the most least offending post he’s written in a while….

 

He’ll wait for Leeds opportunity.

 

I'm sure most of these managers follow the money. Win or lose their bank balance gets bigger

 

I'm afraid that the concept of anyone apart from the fans actually caring about 'their' club no longer exists. Players and managers are employees, who get (usually very well) paid to perform. One can have rose-tinted nostalgia about players playing for their boyhood club, and/or managers managing their local team, but it all comes down to money. Owners of clubs, at least at our level,are more often than not overseas interests, who employ foreign people to entice overseas managers, who then use their overseas links to purchase overseas players. Add to that the player agents who expect, and usually receive, wildly inflated fees for English players, and we end up with the only 'local' thing about any club being the fans themselves. Even that is being eroded, as shown by the multinational TV deals, enabling viewers (aka fans) in other countries to watch football. Once the AI-generated crowd, with accompanying noises, are added to the soundtrack, football matches could take place anywhere in the world, but us fans will still consider that we have a club and team to support.

Still, we won, so we're heading for the promised land of the Premier League, where real people stand and watch real players who are picked by real managers, and paid by real owners. Bring back scarves, football rattles and unnecessarily hot cups of Bovril, that's what I say!