Funny isn’t it Sb, it keeps coming back to leadership. Something, for me, we have been lacking for some years now. Talent is a wonderful thing but leadership and spirit accounts for a lot when a team is together (on the pitch, in the office and in the boardroom). Good strong leadership wouldn’t have let those managers get away with it. I do think Hoos has some element of leadership, grounding our owners when it comes to finances.They did what quite a few Rs fans think they should be doing now - spend loads of dosh in a vain attempt to stay in/ back to the PL. And it seems they didn’t learn so much from the experience as they did it again on a smaller scale for Warburton. So they have been ****ed over by Hughes, Redknapp and Warburton, none of whom could deliver in what they promised - ‘give me these players, I’ll give you the PL’.
And I have no sympathy for them either.
Oh for the days of Jim Gregory (contentious with some I’m sure), Macca, Francis, Venables, Fenwick, Derry etc.