Aye, he'll be in the diary room this morning, getting his first written warning.
Bit of a change since he was last in there being congratulated for overseeing a splendid cup exit.
They absolutely could see it. They chose to assume we were safe and chance it, in true Ashley style.
Penfold and Michael's opinion doesn't matter a fucking jot tbqh. They'll nod to whatever MA wants.
We'll see this every year under the Ashley ownership. As soon as we are virtually safe (in percentage terms) he'll flog an asset because he can demand a premium in January that he won't be able to in the summer due to 'distressed' buyers i.e: some cunt showing some ambition.
Simple leverage.
We seem to be talking about squad shortages every single year, especially after January.
Those people still buying ST's need to take a good look at themselves, essentially condoning this mismanagement.
Put a -1 trixie on for Norwich (lose) and Charlton (win) and Watford (win).
£10 stake (£40 trixie) still returned £216.00.
Norwich had a perfectly good goal disallowed after 20 or so minutes. If they'd gone on from there and stuck another in, that bet would've returned £1276.00.
In fairness to them, at least they've moved forward quickly with a replacement in mind.
Advocaat may be a total cock up of an appointment but he's got some pedigree and experience.
Gonna be fucking infuriating when he gets the gig full time.
I also wonder how much this sudden 'promotion of youth' to the bench etc has to do with Penfolds statement relating to the required qualities of the next head coach?
He's probably been told to involve the likes of Ameobi, Satka etc in order to soften the blow when he's confirmed in post having already 'understood the requirements of the board in relation to development of youth'.
Fuck knows how they're going to sell the 'free flowing attacking football' or whatever the fuck the line was though.
After Owen, Geremi was our second most important player in that run under Keegan.
I'd swap Geremi out for Duff.
Appreciate he weighed in with a few goals but there was a heartless little runt if ever I've seen one.