This might be my favourite bit... “The reason we took longer than we wanted to take was because we did a review of the German market, the Italian market, Spanish market, the whole of the British Isles, to find the candidate who stood the best chance of getting us promotion as soon as possible,” Bowkett said. We scoured Europe? To end up with Neil Adams? Is Bowkett trying to make this worse? Who is in charge of our scouring anyway? I might apply for the role myself. My cover letter will just be a list of reasons why I want the job more than anyone else, which should be enough to clinch it given the current regime.
I really hope not. That is terrifying. Mind you he is being paid a lot of money - I think he was in the top 4 executives in the Premier League by pay (someone said something like that). So maybe he will be happy to keep receiving the pay cheque