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Is he trying to get himself sacked? I can't think of another reason to make that substitution.

Anyone not got money on West Ham to win this?

A League Two side would have run their bollocks off to reach every ball and would not have simply submitted as meekly as this shower of shite

Sheer stupidity all over the pitch and in the dugout

They've had a month to prepare for this

When he first joined us he said it was like a new start, being away from all of the dodgy influences in his life and initially it looks like it kind of worked. He was able to concentrate on football, get into the 1st team and was rewarded with a long contract. Then he's suddenly back with the dodgy influences and his career has cratered. With a good manager & mentor (like Carroll with Nolan) to keep him focussed on football instead of focussing on his social life he might make it as a footballer. Or he might just be a dick.

Well he's from Middlesbrough, so make of that what you will.

The only racist remarks I really remember at St James' towards one of our own players was someone calling Franz Carr a useless black bastard (the same guy was cheering with the rest of the crowd when Carr scored less than 30 seconds after that). I think Carr was only the 5th black player to play for us so it might have just been that we'd never had enough black players prior to that for the racists to complain about, I did know someone whose wife used to call Asprilla that nig nog so there were definitely plenty of ignorant racists supporting us.

Or he can't read or write. Or he's sat on the phone talking to his local pizza takeaway wondering why they won't let him buy Darren Bent.

He's learned how to piss the fans off pretty effectively

Should really try to persuade them to run with scissors instead

Because we have a manager who would probably think that Paolo Maldini wasn't a worthwhile defender because he only averaged 0.5 tackles per game and wasn't 6'4"

He's going to back Pardew isn't he? He's going to look at all those weird foreign names that Carr keeps coming up with compared to Pardew's list of English cloggers and end up fucking Carr off.

Everything there sounds plausible, reasonable and logical with the exception of Joe Fucking Kinnear being involved at any level.

You do remember that it was Mort who hired Wise, etc.? Whilst he was on good terms with the fans, sacked Fat Sam & hired Keegan he also paved the way for all the disastrous events later.

Ashley's a ruthless self-made multi-billionaire who apparently thought nothing of losing £400million in banking shares when the credit crunch hit. He doesn't need to play political games with DL for power within the club, he owns 100% of the club himself. If he was pissed off with how DL is running things he'd just sack him, the same goes for Pardew. Bad press doesn't seem to bother him at all. Losing a few £million in compensation is pocket change to him. I can't think of any other reasons to appoint JFK in such a senior position other than spite or football's biggest practical joke since Ali Dia.

Karl Pilkington to Ashley's Gervais?

Considering everything else that he's said, I'm just assuming that he's been calling his local takeaway and they've been too polite to tell him that he's called Pizza Express instead of Manchester United.

There's no justifiable reason to appoint this fuckwit other than to antagonise people. Carr can now have his transfer targets overruled by an (even bigger) idiot. Pardew has some footballing dinosaur "advising" him on tactics. Llambias has been moved into a role with no oversight on football. The players have some halfwit getting their names wrong and talking utter crap about their profession. The fans already hated him and have held him as the object of derision since his original spell here. There's got to be some secret what-insane-decision-can-you-get-away-with competition going on between club owners for this to make even the slightest bit of sense.

Fuck this shit. The man is a mentally unstable imbecile who managed to insult the fans and players in his first interview. He's actually deluded, he believes in events that have been shown to have never occurred. His tactical knowledge is laughable and his history in the transfer market is meagre at best. If I didn't have a season ticket I wouldn't attend. Even with a season ticket I'm contemplating just staying away until he disappears.

Any way he can be reported to mental health authorities to get him sectioned?

What the fucking fuck? Been out all day & come back to this shit. In no way does this actually make the slightest bit of sense whatsoever.

How many pundits have been bleating on about stability being the be-all-and-end-all of management? Now imagine that you know relatively little about football but everyone you come across professionally is telling you that you need to stick with the manager because of stability. According to some it seems that's all that's needed for success. If you were undecided about what to do with a crap manager, you might believe the football "experts" more than the evidence of your own "inexpert" eyes. I agree that unless he gets another amazing start to the season he'll be gone by Christmas though.

Throw into the mix a few players who might now decide to take a cut in pay to get away from the manager & they could be in for a very painful summer.

[footballmanager] I’m pleased with how things are going, keep it up [/footballmanager] I'd guess there's some general guff about keeping it tight, winning 2nd balls, etc. Nothing specific, no plans in case the opposition come out to play a different formation, no plans to deal with opposition players who have been playing well in the 1st half, possibly something about death and the pointlessness of existence. I'd not be too surprised to find out that he tells the players what subs he's likely to make.