Oh dear what a fuckin' shame. I have no sympathy whatsoever if sidelined players were unhappy, it's tough. Yes, MON played favourites, but overall it worked given the year on year progress. Harewood, for all his effort was only ever a squad player and while the argument is valid that MON didn't utilise his squad to it's full extent I'm fed up of hearing about how unfair his treatment was to various players. A manager stands or falls on his team selection, it is his call and his call only and if the team prosper then marginalised players can hardly claim to deserve a place in the side.
You could have named the team for the next four weeks, irrespective of results.
Wow, his business has had to register for VAT! Ie it's made about two weeks of his Aston villa wages!
Comes across as a nice enough bloke, but was never, ever going to be good enough for us. If only the manager had spotted that, we'd have saved ourselves 4 million pounds plus, what, 5m in wages over three years.
QuoteYou could have named the team for the next four weeks, irrespective of results.Says it all, really.
I only found out last week that he has a famous brother who is an actor - a Brummie who went to the same school as Ian Taylor.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harewood