Southgate is quickly making himself a dead man walking, if he thinks the crowd are going to drop it he’s badly mistaken, nearly everyone in the Stadium can see the problem, after all the s hite himself and Henderson have come out with and doing a full turn he is showing how stupid he is.
Everyone forgotten the penny pinching, the politicking, putting Featherstone in the firing line, the multiple derelictions of duty when it came to the first team, from hamstringing McCarthy at one end to doing the same with and then crazily indulging Reid with the same result at the other? The stadium and the foundation is in the plus column. Everything else is in the minus.
Bit harsh. There was no money...penny pinching is not quite right. Bob Murray always had the club at heart... but,he wasn't a Billionaire by any means.. and he passed it on to Quinny and his mates,with the best of intenions,when he knew he couldn't cope with it.
Presumably then, you would have preferred him to spend loads of money neither he nor the club had? Murray was guilty of not being a billionaire, but, for nigh on twenty years he was the only show in town. No serious individual showed any interest in us back then. If he'd gave in, we'd be a club, but a greatly reduced one. He was, as are we all, imperfect, but he did more for Sunderland than any living individual. Easy to spend shedloads and look good for a while. Ask Leeds back then, ( even now I'm not sure if they own their training ground and stadium after their wild splurge), or Sheffield Wednesday who bet the future on going up and ended up going down with a bigger wage bill than CL finalists Borussia Dortmund.
No, I'd have preferred him to make good decisions with regards to the footballing side of the club more often. If you do that, the money takes care of itself.
Reading it now and its excellent. Mentions Gates and Gabbiadini, apparently Gates told Marco, "if I get the ball all I want to see is your arse bombing up the pitch, I will get the ball to you"
