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littleDinosaurLuke said:
You'll never know, because I think you're safe now, but everything he did up to his sacikng had the Midas touch. I just feel sorry for a man who has put you back among the elite in no time and is rewarded with the sack. I'm not sure why a rookie manager from Spain is better placed to take you to "the next level".
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Look son I take only a slight passing interest in your club but I watch every moment of every game with my club. Any comment I make about United would be from the uninformed looking in and not really knowing or understanding the situation and that is what you are doing with regard to us and you are way off the mark.

We know Nigel was a great bloke but he had peaked for us and had little more to offer. Your comment that Pochittino is a rookie manager from Spain shows just how little you know about him and his past achievements.

So please stop being an irritating little nuisance and get back on you Man U bandwagon or even better go and support your local team.
 
Nigel may not have peaked and he may yet progress to being an even better manager, but Mauricio has the style that suits our Chairman. Saints fans still have old-style thinking...safety is good enough, but Nicola told us from the beginning that hanging on in the top league for 27 years isn't his idea of success. That throwaway line may be a bit disrespectful to our past achievements, but does show his thinking. He saw us not as good old Southampton, but as a suitable vehicle for his plan to be a big club. Now this is taking Saints fans a while to accept...it will take longer for the media and fans of other clubs to accept. Will he do it...may be, maybe not, but it is sure going to be exciting.
 
Nigel was learning on the job, the team were improving under him, and I am truly sorry he never got the chance to prove himself at this level. It's simply not true to say that every Saints fan is now slavishly bowing to Cortese's better judgement. I don't deny that Nicola saved our club, and he seems to have unearthed a gem in Pochettino, but like a lot of Saints fans I know, I'm still ambivalent about the sacking. We move on, because we have to, but not without a tinge of regret.
 
Downthe36 said:
Swansea's rise has probably been more meteoric. I went to Uni in Swansea and used to go and watch them at the Vetch, followed by a drunken session in Barons (is it true it has closed?)! I thought they were doing quite well then, so if you told me they would be where they are now in 10 years time I would have had a good chuckle!
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Yes the Vetch sadly did close, it is now a field with overgrowing grass and bushes.
 
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