Uncle Joe. The Best Bar None

Today's newspapers.

JOE Kinnear says his experience puts him “head and shoulders” above any other director of football in English football.. Kinnear was on Tyneside yesterday for the first time since his controversial appointment at Newcastle United.

Kinnear, 66, returned to Newcastle last month as the club’s “senior executive in charge of all football-related matters”.The appointment was widely-criticised given that the 66-year-old’s involvement in the game over the past nine years has been limited to a five-month spell in charge of Newcastle, which was cut short by a heart attack.
For his part, Kinnear feels the club needed a director of football a position he feels he is more than qualified to succeed in, despite the misgivings of supporters. “Every top club in the land has got one,” Kinnear said. “We haven’t – that’s the difference. The manager can’t do everything.
“I’m probably the only football manager to be a director of football.

“I don’t know any other ex-managers who have. I’ve been a manager for 35 years. (No you haven’t)
I’ve been Manager of the Year. I’ve won every award there is in football as a player. (World Cups galore then Joe!)
“I think all those qualities put me head and shoulders above every other director of football.” (Really, is that why you parted company with Oxford when in you were Director of Football?)

There has been a trend in English football towards adopting a more continental model behind the scenes, where a senior figure above the manager has overall control over transfers.
Other Premier League clubs, among them Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and West Bromwich Albion, have employed directors of football in recent years. However, Kinnear feels his experience as a player sets him apart from his counterparts elsewhere in the top flight.
“Some directors of football have never played the game,” added Kinnear.

“I’m lending my experience as a manager for all those years – 10 years at Wimbledon”, (January 1992 to March 1999 is just over seven years Joe)
“Two years at Nottingham Forest”, (February 2004 to December 2004 is less than a year Joe! And four wins in 23 games is not a good record)
“Two years winning promotion” (and a relegation let’s not forget) “at Luton and, of course, almost two years at Newcastle”. (September 2008 to February 2009 is two years? It’s six months in my book Joe)
“I would still be there had it (a heart attack) not occurred.”(Doubtful)

The entertainment continues, but I genuinely feel sorry for our friend in the north having to put up with this.

 

Brazil will boot Scalari out and get Joe in to manage Brazil next year!, then he will go to Barca to win the treble.

 

I do believe that this man is insane

 

I'm gutted he did replace Pardew. His MOTD interviews will have been well amusing with his newfound dementia.