Don't know how it slipped under the radar but two years ago yesterday we gave Felix Magath the boot. please log in to view this image The dillusional 61-year-old, speaking in a statement via German news agency DPA, said at the time: "I am disappointed and surprised, because I am sure that I would have stopped the downfall of the club with drastic changes in the squad to a young team, although the first results of the season have not shown this." Yeah right. Guess he hadn't realised he'd already engineered our "downfall" by being relegated. And 1 point in the opening 7 games of "the season" showed us plenty enough about the 'Mad German' and his cock-eyed ideas.
To be fair, I never felt the blame for our relegation should have been laid at Magath's door - his stats, extrapolated over a full season, would have (just) kept us up (which isn't true of Jol and Meulensteen that season) and he inherited a team in crisis after the transfer window. That said, what happened in the Championship, after he'd had a summer of getting in his own players was all him with no mitigating circumstances whatsoever.
Might disagree a bit on the relegation issue Captain. Whatever, one of Magath's biggest mistakes was falling out with this guy please log in to view this image Which is an excuse to say Happy 31st Birthday David Stockdale
Todays the one month anniversary since his last win with Shandong Luneng - time to show the Chinese his magic block of cheese! Assuming that in the Chinese league the players are more deferential toward the manager and willing to ignore or overlook the fact he's a mad control freak, he will absolutely love it there. He almost seemed to pick his teams out of spite. The years up to that had been taking us toward relegation with ALF not putting the money in when we needed it and Khan then being generally clueless, but Magath only seemed to make things worse
