Friday fun: Who winds you up the most?

[johnny from donny]

I voted for Houllier, just can't stand the bloke. Right back to his comments about George Boateng i have held a grudge against that twat

[Clark W Griswold]

Yes, i'm Houllier as well. Never actually felt like we had someone in charge when he was there, tactics were piss poor, fawning over Liverpool and chucking the towel in at Man City in the cup. O' Leary is close, but it's fair to say that we were a real shower of shit at the time and some of his comments had some truth to them. He was a twat though. McLeish was a likeable chap but was supposed to scale us down somewhat. Even with that in mind, he still underachieved and I was mighty relieved when we got rid. And O'Neill was fine really, apart from dropping us in it at the end.

[Big Dick Edwards]

O'Leary came the closest of all Villa managers to making me quit my season ticket. His post match comments used to do my head in. When he started comparing us to Charlton Athletic I was on the verge of giving up but fortunately he got himself fired for trying to engineer a player mutiny against Ellis.

[russon]

Gold - O'Leary. Horrible man.
Silver - McLeish. Nice guy but a dead man walking from day one.
Bronze - Houllier. Pirese purchase says it all

O'Neill I loved having at the Villa and he doesn't wind me up in the least.

[not3bad]

I said to someone earlier that trip to Arsenal was as bad as it gets for me.

Away to Chelsea near the end of MON's reign was a low point for me.  The day we realised Martin O'Neill's Aston Villa had been well and truly found out.

[Leighton]

O'Leary. And I still don't like you.

[Dave Cooper please]

O'Neill.
O'Leary was a twat of the highest order but O'Neill deliberately and vindictively fucked us over by leaving when he did.

[spaf]

"I’ve had requests to go back on major networks and it’s not me bigging myself up or thinking I deserve a bigger job but I just felt that the jobs weren’t right in any way," the Irishman explained to The Daily Mail.

"I’ve had lots of offers mainly from abroad and I think that can only come from people remembering Knowing Me, Knowing You on the BBC."

"Some with loads and loads of dollars. Jeremy Clarkson was very good and recommended me for a really big job but I just felt I couldn’t live where it was with the family really. That was about six or seven months ago.

"We’re not friends but Jeremy has always kind of rated me if you know what I mean. He was asked a question to recommend somebody for something or put them up and I was very grateful that he did it.

"When I thanked him he said, 'Alan, I wasn’t doing you a favour even though I like you, it’s because I rate you' and that’s his attitude.

‘I saw [Jay] Leno at Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ function the other week and he came down from the top table and said 'when are you bloody getting back in the game'?

"It was nice getting that from Leno. A lot of them know that you’re too good to be out of it. That’s not me trying to big myself up. People in the game know how difficult Tony Hayers and the BBC was."

Love this interview. Hilarious.

Mcleish is a poor manager but I don't hate him as a person. MON could be a vindictive, spiteful shit but he gave us some bloody good moments. Houllier is and was a frail old man.

Sugarbags is the only one who I actually think is a genuine arsehole.

Agreed, 1Pablo. He's the man. Namedropper and self-imprtant c*** of the worst kind.

I changed a few names on the quotes to make it an Alan Partridge interview. There are some bits of vintage Partridge. I can vividly hear Alan say this:

"When I thanked him he said, 'Alan, I wasn’t doing you a favour even though I like you, it’s because I rate you' and that’s his attitude."

[Broughty-Villian]

Got to be TSM for me... Should never have been appointed, and it's nothing to do with the noses, he's is just a shit manager.

e.g. Noses up for relagation, a local away derby, and we scunner them 5-1, and we didn't really play brilliantly that day.


He was poor at rangers, 2 horserace and he finished them third one year, was 2nd to MoN when he was at celtic, and really poor at the noses.

[DB]

Dolly for me, awful , arrogant, and blamed everyone including the tea lady but himself. So if you're talking about personalities rather than football....Dolly, but that said - that period was a low in our history, stagent board, crap manager and just apathy.
The TSM was awful manager, but I don't think he was a bad bloke.

[steffo]

I don't have any gripe with DOL - he was just like all Ellis managers, starved of cash. He managed a high finish in his first year then a predictable fall. He fell on his sword. Not worked much has he since then. Wonder why?

MON - Gave us hope. Alas, the lack of business acumen by the owner letting MON sign players on high wages led to cost cutting an a parting of the ways. Leaving when he did was unforgivable.

GED - No pre-season and never won the fans over. Strange however, I could see what he was trying to do. Like it or not he attracted a striker to play with Young and Downing and ensure survival. A situation baring injuries we should not have been in.

TSM - Wanker, tosspot, negative disaster. At the Take That concert last Summer - a beer with Kevin Phillips - (yes he who scored a goal v the Blues in DOL era) he had just been released by the DS and when asked about TSM. "You are in for a long hard season"- I did not renew my season Ticket.

So TSM it is but food for thought. Paul Faulkner. Appointed the last year of MON reign. Cost cutting since, involved in the appointment of GED & TSM. Not been a good start.

[gervilla]

TSM was just a shit manager but I can't say I dislike him.
DOL was just a complete and utter horrible self-serving tosser.
GH made some terrible PR gaffes .
MON did some good but proved to be over rated and devoid of a plan B.
DOL it is then. Grade A tosser.

[rob_bridge]

I hardly listened to O'Dreary because he spouted so much carp at Leeds about ' The Great Bunch of Young Lads'. His lovein for Arsenal and Leeds was nauseating. His fickle comment was out of order though he did to an extent have a point, he just made it at completely the wrong time. He's been and was always going to be a deadman managerially since. And he is a Grade A knob.

MON wound me up by the way he walked out. The timing was most inopportune and the job was about to get more difficult so he flew off as soon as he could, managing the self preservation art of keeping his fairly mythical reputation in tact.

Houllier managed to turn a top 6 team into relegation fodder in incredibly quick time. About 3 months in fact - alienating multiple key players in the process. The Liverpool love in was bad enough.. In fact that is the most disrepectful thing I remember any manager doing (other than McDuff who existed). Worst was to come though - a few days after That Lot finally won something he sent a team out to lose to Cit-eh in the cup. He didn't give a shit in reality and who the fuck did the health check / medical prior to him joining. Someone who never treats me or my family I hope.

TSM - I dunno who he is. 2011 - 2012 did not exist as a football season. Let's face facts we, well most of us, knew what we were likely to get just didn't think it would be so bad so quickly so often. He did actually give a shit unlike Houllier and McDuff it's just he was so far out of his depth to be believed - like a 4 year old trying to paint like Rembrandt. It was pitiful from start to finish.

Tricky one but I am going to sail against the wind and put Houllier top of the tree - below McNeill (if he were an option), followed by O'Dreary.

[1_Pablo_Angel]

"I’ve had requests to go back on major networks and it’s not me bigging myself up or thinking I deserve a bigger job but I just felt that the jobs weren’t right in any way," the Irishman explained to The Daily Mail.

"I’ve had lots of offers mainly from abroad and I think that can only come from people remembering Knowing Me, Knowing You on the BBC."

"Some with loads and loads of dollars. Jeremy Clarkson was very good and recommended me for a really big job but I just felt I couldn’t live where it was with the family really. That was about six or seven months ago.

"We’re not friends but Jeremy has always kind of rated me if you know what I mean. He was asked a question to recommend somebody for something or put them up and I was very grateful that he did it.

"When I thanked him he said, 'Alan, I wasn’t doing you a favour even though I like you, it’s because I rate you' and that’s his attitude.

‘I saw [Jay] Leno at Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ function the other week and he came down from the top table and said 'when are you bloody getting back in the game'?

"It was nice getting that from Leno. A lot of them know that you’re too good to be out of it. That’s not me trying to big myself up. People in the game know how difficult Tony Hayers and the BBC was."

Love this interview. Hilarious.

Mcleish is a poor manager but I don't hate him as a person. MON could be a vindictive, spiteful shit but he gave us some bloody good moments. Houllier is and was a frail old man.

Sugarbags is the only one who I actually think is a genuine arsehole.

Agreed, 1Pablo. He's the man. Namedropper and self-imprtant c*** of the worst kind.

I changed a few names on the quotes to make it an Alan Partridge interview. There are some bits of vintage Partridge. I can vividly hear Alan say this:

"When I thanked him he said, 'Alan, I wasn’t doing you a favour even though I like you, it’s because I rate you' and that’s his attitude."

Lovely stuff there spaf.

Not my words....

[cheltenhamlion]

I haven't forgiven MON yet and still can't get TSM out of my mind for a dreadful season, however, worse than Dolly? No, no, no, no. A top graded ****** of the highest order.