Friday fun: Who winds you up the most?

[Brend'Watkins]

That one game at Anfield with Houlier in charge made me as angry as any time I have been a Villa supporter.  For someone so intelligent is was astonishing behavior.

[pauliewalnuts]

That one game at Anfield with Houlier in charge made me as angry as any time I have been a Villa supporter.  For someone so intelligent is was astonishing behavior.

I'd have to agree with that, it was about as tactless and humiliating as it gets.

God only knows what he thought he was doing, and how that'd go down.

[Concrete John]

Definitely TSM. O'Leary was long ago now and my feelings towards him have almost been forgotten, and at least MON and Houiller actually did do some good things for the club, unlike McLeish.

Only thing I can think of is signing Bent, and even that was more down to Randy's money, IMO.

I can see the argument that had he stayed he may have changed things round for the better, but while he was here we had poor results overall, dressing room bust ups and PR gaffs.

[Risso]

That one game at Anfield with Houlier in charge made me as angry as any time I have been a Villa supporter.  For someone so intelligent is was astonishing behavior.

I'd have to agree with that, it was about as tactless and humiliating as it gets.

God only knows what he thought he was doing, and how that'd go down.

Yes, that was abysmal.  I don't think he ever really recovered from that.

Sentimentally touching the "This is Anfield" sign
Waving at the Liverpool fans
Saying if he lost to anybody then he was glad it was Liverpool

You could almost understand and excuse maybe one of the above, but taken all together and combined with the fact that he hadn't set the world alight at Villa when he did it, well he rightfully got dog's abuse.

[Michel Sibble]

David O'C**t. Without any shadow of doubt. For the following reasons:

* The "fickle" comment.
* Repeated sycophantic schmoozing of Leeds and Arsenal
* "We cannot compete with the Milton Keyneses of the league".
* Doncaster.
* His celebration towards HDE at the Stinking Sty.
* His unforgiveable "mystery" letter to HDE. Really? All of those players think the chairman is a tool?

All wrappeed up in a personality best described as a Grade-A, narcissistic, pug-nosed faced, unemployable c***. TSM can only hope to be that dislikeable in his lifetime, but he's learning. Houllier was clumsy and O'Neill only had us hating him after he left.

O'C**t is, was and will always be... a c***.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

David O'C**t. Without any shadow of doubt. For the following reasons:

* The "fickle" comment.
* Repeated sycophantic schmoozing of Leeds and Arsenal
* "We cannot compete with the Milton Keyneses of the league".
* Doncaster.
* His celebration towards HDE at the Stinking Sty.
* His unforgiveable "mystery" letter to HDE. Really? All of those players think the chairman is a tool?

All wrappeed up in a personality best described as a Grade-A, narcissistic, pug-nosed faced, unemployable c***. TSM can only hope to be that dislikeable in his lifetime, but he's learning. Houllier was clumsy and O'Neill only had us hating him after he left.

O'C**t is, was and will always be... a c***.

That says it for me.

[JUAN PABLO]

as Jacko said A B C

[German James]

E: For God's sake, LET IT FUCKING GO!

[Quiet Lion]

O'Leary         

AIINEC

I dont even hate McLeish, he may have been shit but that is not his fault. He always said the right things about the club. Contrast with O'Leary who tried his best at all times to antagonise the entire supporter base with every pig nosed uttering!

[dave.woodhall]

I don't hate or get annoyed by any of them purely because they're for differing reasons not worth it. If I had to choose one, though, it would be O'Leary because that 'fickle' comment has caused us so much damage over the years.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Nuff said.

[Clampy]

I think they've all annoyed me at some point but if i were choose one it would be DOL. It was a sensible appointment at the time which not too many people argued with but his success with Leeds went to his head. He never really took to working on a budget and his manner came across that we should have been grateful that he was our manager rather than the other way round. He should have gone after the Doncaster defeat and the fact that he's still waiting for that 'big job' speaks volumes.

MON's fixation at playing players out of position (Carlos, Sidwell, Delph, NRC, Petrov) used to grate me. Sidwell, Delph, Petrov and maybe to a lesser extent NRC were all known for weighing in with goals from midfield but he turned them all into midfielder cloggers and it did'nt work. You look back at Stan's debut down at West Ham and you wonder why he was'nt encouraged to do it again. He deserved all the flak he took for walking out when he did but it went on too long for me.

Mcleish should never have been on the shortlist never mind been offered the job. It's a moment Randy and Paul Faulkner will look back on in years to come and they'll admit  eventually it was a massive mistake. I don't blame him for taking the job, he'd have been stupid to turn it down and he seemed genuinely pleased to be here but he just was'nt good enough and it might in the end do his career more harm than good. Wigan away last season convinced me his time was up. Oh and Alan Hutton.

You could see what Houiller was trying to do and his signings were a step in the right direction but that team selection for the cup game up at Man City just as he was starting to turn the doubters round was utter stupidty and the perfomance up at Anfield (on and off the pitch) was as bad as i've seen.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

We're not fickle, we just don't like you. Everything about that sugarbag hacks me off. So I am pleased he has found his level. This section lifted from wiki outlines his most recent football activity:
Al-Ahli

O'Leary returned to management on 4 July 2010 with United Arab Emirates club Al-Ahli Dubai, where his first decision was to install former Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro as the new skipper of the team. On 2 April 2011, O'Leary was relieved of his duties following a 5-1 defeat at the hands of Al Jazira.[5][6] On 22 April 2011, Al-Ahli officially announced its decision to sack O'Leary with his assistant coach Roy Aitken.[7] When he was sacked, O'Leary had two years remaining on a three year contract. In March 2012, he asked FIFA for help in getting compensation from Al-Ahli for the early termination of his contract.

What a turnip (my words not wiki's)

[Steve R]

Excellent topic.

We seem to be particularly good at appointing arseholes.

Despite his foot in mouth moments, I liked Houllier. IT probably makes a difference that I always liked the Pink Panther films. To be fair to him, a lot of what PL is doing now is what he was trying to do without the luxury of a summer transfer window to give him a head start.

McLeish should never have had the job, but should still have done a lot better than he did. He had his spineless sleazebag moments and that letter marks him down a lot. But for sheer bareface c*ntishness he is not in the same league as O'Leary and  O'Neill.

O'Neill for me. He did far more harm to the club.

At least with O'Leary  I could comfort myself with the thought that he was a dead man walking, although looking across at the smug twat from the Rossington End at Doncaster took a lot of getting past.

O'Neill shades it. He had the best working conditions of any Villa manager I can remember. He  pissed it out of the window on an ego trip then dropped us in the mire by leaving at the time he did. Vindictive. Then he had the nerve to come back and sue for unfair dismissal. I wish he'd get the job at Anfield or OT. Sunderland have never done anything bad enough to deserve him.

If I were to meet O'Leary I could at least amuse myself by asking him how things are going nowadays. With O'Neill I'd have to resist the temptation to spit in his face.

[Villa-Villan]

David O'C**t. Without any shadow of doubt. For the following reasons:

* The "fickle" comment.
* Repeated sycophantic schmoozing of Leeds and Arsenal
* "We cannot compete with the Milton Keyneses of the league".
* Doncaster.
* His celebration towards HDE at the Stinking Sty.
* His unforgiveable "mystery" letter to HDE. Really? All of those players think the chairman is a tool?

All wrappeed up in a personality best described as a Grade-A, narcissistic, pug-nosed faced, unemployable c***. TSM can only hope to be that dislikeable in his lifetime, but he's learning. Houllier was clumsy and O'Neill only had us hating him after he left.

O'C**t is, was and will always be... a c***.

When you put it like that then how could I disagree!