Slightly O/T but Ian Wright on Phil Brown from the Sun:
"EITHER Alan Shearer or Phil Brown will be opening a bottle of champagne on Sunday evening to celebrate survival.
I really hope it’s Alan and that Newcastle stay up. And, I think they’ll do it.
Alan is a good mate of mine so I’m obviously a bit biased.
But I really don’t think Brown has done himself any favours — and I’ll have little sympathy if he takes Hull back down.
I feel sorry for the players and the fans at the club — but they have to blame the manager.
As a player, Brown never got the recognition that he probably feels he deserved.
So after one bit of success as a manager, in terms of taking Hull to promotion to the top flight, he puffed out his chest and got carried away with himself.
Brown has got above his station and I’ve lost all respect for him.
To have the players out on the pitch at half-time at Manchester City was very disrespectful.
It was also a crazy thing to do. Some of the senior players were not happy about it and I’d have certainly been furious if I was out there.
Then there was this alleged spit from Cesc Fabregas in the tunnel at Arsenal after the FA Cup replay.
Brown should have found Gunners’ boss Arsene Wenger and sorted it out manager-to-manager rather than moaning about Fabregas publicly. But this sums him up — it’s always about Phil Brown rather than Hull."