Forget those. Would he have lasted that long at bloody Spurs?
Ashley did such a good job of beating us down - people weren't enraged when McClaren was hired.
Because he wasn't Alan Pardew. He replaced incompetent arsehole with mere incompetence and some were blinded. I have never been a fan of McClaren as a manager but because he is an affable bloke , I wanted him to do well, as I suspect many did. You're right though. All of this came from Ashley.