I was under the impression that Steve Wigley was brought in a head coach, and that the post of assistant manager was still open, and that SW was for the moment acting number 2.
Thats a fairly pedantic way at looking at it, for me if you are terrible and relying on other teams to stay up, whilst not doing much about it yourself then it is luck more than anything else that saves you, at the end of the day Brownie was singing on the pitch like he was a hero, he was a hero at Wembley and when he saved us from relegation in the Championship not after we were gifted survival by other teams
True, I'm not saying we didn't deserve to stay up, the other 3 teams didn't do enough to stay up and we did, but given our form after Christmas of that year we were fortunate that there were 3 poorer teams than us, any team that only wins 1 game in 25 matches stinks of relegation. But then again our form pre christmas was good enough to keep us up and certainly helped us.
we where unlucky there where 16 teams better then us, or we would have been champions!! ask hooloway if hed have taken a defeat to man utd, and somebody losing to villa to stay up and hed have snapped your hand off! we stayed up on merit! the league table doesnt lie in may!
I see David Amoo (remember him) may have put nail in PB coffin, scoring Bury's winning goal to beat the Lillywhites.
The idea that we only stayed up because 3 other teams let us is just nonsense. If Newcastle had won their last game and lost one earlier in the season no one would say this, but just because of the sequence of results it somehow became lucky that we got more points than them.
Pinning all our hopes on a nicky butt own goal when we couldn't even beat man utds reserves ourselves is running our luck a fair bit though...
We didn't. We pinned our 'luck' on beating Arsenal, Tottenham and Newcastle at their own grounds and drawing at Chelsea and Liverpool. Also, our 'luck' at Liverpool costs us two points, which is twice as any as Newcastle lost to that own goal (which wasn't luck anyway they conceded a fair goal).
i dont even remember writing this, ill say this for the old 606, the 11pm cut off had its merits ....at least i didnt get away too badly, spelling of holloway apart
Damien Duff, also one of the first players to leave Newcastle after relegation if memory serves me correctly.
Thought the season was played over more than one game? And the idea of the competition was to accumulate as many points from all of the games? P.S. nice comments about Gary Speed. Cock
Bore off mate, you got told on Saturday and never managed to muster a comeback. Be a good boy and jog on now P.S. nice to know you support suicide. Nobcheese
I have to say I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Brownio's finest hour - I refer of course to becoming Jesus Christ himself and offering salvation to a suicidal woman on Humber Bridge. The fact that the CCTV on said bridge failed to capture the incident and there were no reports to the team there of a suicide attmept on the day is neither here nor there.... Yes Brown did some amazing things but the moment when he said that to a packed press conference is probably my most embarrassing ever as a City fan and it typified just what was going on in the head at that moment of a one time fantastic manager. It actually makes me feel unwell to recall this incident. Shudder.
