He cleaned the place out of everyone who could have helped him. It was a hard job, but that team, albeit a bit old, had won the league by a fair margin. His arrogance collapsed it. He is a man who I will always despise for the contempt he showed this club. He's a fraud from the past IMO and Everton will find that out.
After your post I read on expecting to see Laurie McBellendery mentioned. And I wasn't disappointed Howard the duck Wilkinson was a dour bastad anarl.
I'm no fan of his but taking the United job was the definition of a poisoned chalice, if he brought his own team in that's understandable and a standard thing to do. Fraud is probably a bit strong considering how long he's managed in the prem.
Wilkinson is probably third on my list, with Mick Buxton and Phil Parkinson probably filling out the rest of the top 5. Beale is in contention, but I think Jurassic and Buxton just edge him out. Jurassic was dour, uninspiring, one dimensional and took us to our lowest league finish. We were going nowhere fast under him. It was only having players like McGeady that kept us in contention when he first took over. From 2/11/19 we didn't win another game under him until 29/12/19 and although we had a good run in January and February 2020, we only picked up 2 points in our last 4 games before the league was suspended, from 2 homes draws against teams we should have beaten. That ultimately cost us the points per game that would have got us into the play offs. It was a good job the most of the next season was played behind closed doors due to the dour ****e he served up before he was sacked. Buxton, an old school, lower league sergeant major type manager who clashed with a few players yet had no control over their behaviour off the pitch. Football wise it was dour, set up not to concede, but not much attacking threat. If we went behind we rarely looked like getting back level. Tactics were atrocious, neither proactive or reactive and I remember him in one game preparing to bring on a sub in stoppage time just as the ref blew for full time.
