O'Neill Rejects west ham interest!

[themossman]

Couple of shit seasons at the arse end of the league, some undignified public slagging off from brady, inevitable sacking. I'd love his career to go out like that. Not that I'm bitter, like.

[eastie]

In many he ways he has houiliers problem
in reverse- a passing team that plays the opposite to his style of play.

[sheldon nose]

This should at least mean that Blues will not get to Wembley.  If O'Neill showed us anything it's that he doesn't lose to small heath.  MON is a very good manager and people who think otherwise, of which there are many, need only look at our league positions whist he was at the Villa.  Like him or not, we'd all love to be in the top 6 and planning our trip to north London next month over where we are now.

football dont work like that sunshine...if only it was that simple we would all be managers....

[koreanmeatballs]

That will be West Ham staying up then.

We need to pull away fucking soon, they will go on a big run. Shit, we have to play them at their place he will have them busting a gut to smash us.

Small Heath will be fucked it the semi's though.

[exigo]

Let's hope the porno dwarf sells Parker today and then MON can resign before he's even started

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I can't see this lasting 5 minutes.
Man face Brady, The Porno Pygmy and Mr Tumnus love nothing better than bleating to the press about poor team performances. Zola and Grant were given a hard time by them.
I can't see ego maniac man child O'Neill putting up with that.

He's too arrogant to be questioned and especially in such a public way.

He'll be looking back on his Villa days as the ultimate dream job soon, waking up in the night sweating and thinking
'Why did I fuck it all up?'

His mentor Clough always used to say
'NEVER walk out of a job, if you feel like you want to, sleep on it, if you wake up and feel the same way, keep sleeping on it until you change your mind.'

[eastie]

BBC also now confirming this story on ceefax and radio.

[Holtenderinthesky]

This should at least mean that Blues will not get to Wembley.  If O'Neill showed us anything it's that he doesn't lose to small heath.  MON is a very good manager and people who think otherwise, of which there are many, need only look at our league positions whist he was at the Villa.  Like him or not, we'd all love to be in the top 6 and planning our trip to north London next month over where we are now.

football dont work like that sunshine...if only it was that simple we would all be managers....

Sunshine?  Are you not supposed to be signing in at your local constabulary sometime about now or do they let you off on a weekend?

[richard moore]

We may well have finished 6th twice or whatever under O'Neill but that was hardly any great achievement given the oodles of money spent. It just meant we were the best of a very long and average tail to the premier league. Look at it now, Bolton and Sunderland in and around those positions, they are barely any better than us in all honesty and it is just their turn to be at the head of that very long tail. Plus we had two very easy cup runs which flattered to deceive. The football was awful, so have been many of the signings (although with a degree of hindsight granted), and if not awful, they were certainly hugely over-priced. I would have loved to see O'Neill take this team forward this season and be sixth with no signings and all those injuries. And as for finishing 6th, since when was that so great and such a fantastic achievement? My grandfather who, granted, watched Villa when they were the best team in the land with Arsenal, would turn in his grave to think we ever finished as low as sixth!!! I wasn't brought up as a Villa fan to ever think 6th was good enough...

[Greg N'Ash]

please please please please let this be true. I hope the club are busy adding an extra nought to all our deadwood's prices.

[PeterWithe]

Even more reason to beat west ham now,cant wait.....the ground will be even more pumped up now...bring them on i say...

I'd have thought that your ground would have a kind of resigned acceptance of the inevitable defeat, was it nine games undefeated against you?

[john e]

i reckon MOn will be a success at West Ham, top half finishes, one or two good cup runs,
as long as he gets 100mill to spend of coarse !!

if not, it wont last long

[PeterWithe]

His mentor Clough always used to say 'NEVER walk out of a job, if you feel like you want to, sleep on it, if you wake up and feel the same way, keep sleeping on it until you change your mind.'

Didn't he walk out on Derby and Brighton?

[Bottom Right 89]

I can't believe he'd go there after walking out on us it's like leaving Tess Daly and shacking up with Susan Boyle.

He must think if he can keep them in the division, get them in the top half of the table next season like Bolton or Sunderland restore his rep then waltz into Anfield at some point next season or even Man Utd or Chelsea. 

But lets face it given our current position with his team you can just see the sky pundits sat there dribbling on about how he did a hell of a job at Villa over achieving, getting us to the verge of the Champions league. Why coudn't he just bugger off to Azerbaijan or Malaysia so we could forget he exists? 

[Macho Man Randy Savage]

He'll get them to stay up this season, then top 10 the following season. May not get them much beyond that, but Hammers fans won't be complaining for a while given that they've been on the brink of relegation for the last couple of seasons.