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Been a long time coming, that one.

Never have understood the cult of Martin O'Neill. Hasn't achieved anything of a note for a considerable time now, and has spent an awful lot of money doing so. His transfer activity at Villa, given the wages given to certain players in relation to their squad status, was laughable. Habib Beye was on more than £40kp/w, and only played nine games in three years.
 
EastStandBlue said:
Been a long time coming, that one.

Never have understood the cult of Martin O'Neill. Hasn't achieved anything of a note for a considerable time now, and has spent an awful lot of money doing so. His transfer activity at Villa, given the wages given to certain players in relation to their squad status, was laughable. Habib Beye was on more than £40kp/w, and only played nine games in three years.
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I guess the key phrase there is 'a considerable time' as of course he was fantastic at Leicester and Celtic. Don't forget, Rangers were still something of a force then (beacuse they were spending millions of pounds they didn't have) and he ended their SPL domination.

I think you'd have to regard his spell at Villa as broadly positive, but I wonder if that time away from the game to look after his ill wife took its toll on him. When managers have been away for a while (see also Dalglish and Keegan) they tend to find the game has moved on and they haven't.
 
Uncle Leo said:
I guess the key phrase there is 'a considerable time' as of course he was fantastic at Leicester and Celtic. Don't forget, Rangers were still something of a force then (beacuse they were spending millions of pounds they didn't have) and he ended their SPL domination.

I think you'd have to regard his spell at Villa as broadly positive, but I wonder if that time away from the game to look after his ill wife took its toll on him. When managers have been away for a while (see also Dalglish and Keegan) they tend to find the game has moved on and they haven't.
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Good point, particularly comparing him to Dalglish. There are some truly brilliant anecdotes about Dalglish being thoroughly dismissive of Liverpool's Sport Science/Analysis branch. One approached him with some advice, noting that as a general rule you stand more of a chance scoring from a corner if it's whipped into the near post, backed up by statistics. Dalglish dismissed this instantly, stating that far more corners are successful if they're floated towards the back post as he could remember far more goals being scored that way. This statistician rebuked him, saying that Dalglish was falling for a common pitfall, and that he was merely remembering the more aesthetically pleasing goals, as those floated towards the back stick are often ultimately more memorable than something scrambled home from a near-post flick on. Dalglish told the statistician that he was being stupid. Joe Kinnear's another great example, he just couldn't get to grips with the modern game.

The thing is, O'Neill won't struggle to find another job at all, particularly if Leicester finally lose patience with Pearson.
 
Not sure whether to put this here on in ex-shrimpers, but Paolo Di Canio, in his Sunderland press conference, asked the journos to check with Trevor Sinclair and Chris Powell if he is a racist....
 
So the winners of the following in 11/12 are all no longer in their job:

Champions League
Premier League
Championship
League Two
Conference
FA Cup
League Cup
JPT
FA Trophy

So the only person that won something and kept his job was the legend Chris Powell!

Already the PL winner won't be there next season and it's highly likely the FA Cup winner won't either.
 
MrB said:
So the winners of the following in 11/12 are all no longer in their job:

Champions League
Premier League
Championship
League Two
Conference
FA Cup
League Cup
JPT
FA Trophy

So the only person that won something and kept his job was the legend Chris Powell!

Already the PL winner won't be there next season and it's highly likely the FA Cup winner won't either.
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Potentially both winners of the Champions League and Europa League won't be at their clubs either. To be fair, if a club outside the top 6 win a trophy then their manager is usually linked with another job.

Swansea won the league cup and Laudrup is linked with Everton.
 
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