Randy Lerner

[adrenachrome]

Interestingly, when I'm in charge of the dictionary, an 'Eastie' will be when a gentleman's 'lad' has a natural preference for pointing left. I say 'interestingly', but only in a very loose sense.

Where does that leave Ashley Westwood?

Not to mention Clit Eastwood who would not know if he was going or coming and in severe danger of meeting himself coming back and splitting his difference into the bargain. In any case, left is west if your head is north, surely?

Typo' or deliberate?

Accidentally on purpose, as we we used to say.

[PeterWithesShin]

That's not the point i'm making though. Would you have sacked MON straight after the 7-1 as well?

Of course not. If you finish top 6 for the third year on the trot then get slaughtered at Chelsea you at least get the benefit of the doubt. Lambert's 8-0 was something else though. I'd have sacked him on the spot and I said it at the time as well.

I reckon there were four or five occasions - or runs of results more accurately - in Lambert's tenure which would have got pretty much any other manager the sack.

Yet somehow he remained unscathed.

We also had that horrible sequence of: get a really unexpected win (at Anfield, for example) gain plaudits, then go on a truly hideous run of results for 9 or 10 matches, then repeat.

There were plenty of times he could have been sacked and had no complaints. I just disagree that straight after the 8-0 was one of them.

[Legion]

We we still do in Bloxwich.

[London Villan]

The weeks following the 8-0 would have got 99.9% of managers the sack. Rightly so as well.

[PeterWithesShin]

We we still do in Bloxwich.

Is that your attempt at French?

[Villa in Denmark]

Doug would have sacked him before he'd got on the bus after the 0-8
Losing 8-0 should never be acceptable

Would/should he have sacked MON for losing 7-1 at the same place with a much better side?

In hindsight it would probably have been better for every one if we had.
Of course that was in the days when we were paying "proper Premier League fees and wages" so that kind of thing could never happen.

I mean just the scoreline though. If 8-0 should be instantly sackable, surely 7-1 with a much stronger side should be as well?

Well I agree and I think Doug would of fired MON
He also would not of put up with his antics generally , the day he allegedly resigned and had to be talked back into the job. Doug would of just boot him out

PWS I was attempting to be facetious and apparently made a right messages of it. There was no way MON was getting sacked after that 1-7 and in the context of general results there's no way uncle Doug would have sacked him either.

By the same token there was nothing unreasonable in keeping Lambert in place after the 0-8. In retrospect you could argue for it but at the time it was a shocking performance from an almost completely new team that had made a mediocre start to the season, but had just turned in 2 really good performances and results against Norwich and Liverpool. By the time we'd got past Milwall, Bradford and the 0-15 December run then there was legitimate grounds to get rid.

[Legion]

FAO PWS:

Interestingly, when I'm in charge of the dictionary, an 'Eastie' will be when a gentleman's 'lad' has a natural preference for pointing left. I say 'interestingly', but only in a very loose sense.

Where does that leave Ashley Westwood?

Not to mention Clit Eastwood who would not know if he was going or coming and in severe danger of meeting himself coming back and splitting his difference into the bargain. In any case, left is west if your head is north, surely?

Typo' or deliberate?

Accidentally on purpose, as we we used to say.

[PeterWithesShin]

FAO Leeg

I saw it, it was just a play on us seemingly trying to go French and it was easier to quote you than the bigger quotathon. You big tart!

[Legion]

FAO Leeg

I saw it, it was just a play on us seemingly trying to go French and it was easier to quote you than the bigger quotathon. You big tart!

I'm a big girl.

[PeterWithesShin]

*Childish snigger*

[Legion]

*Childish snigger*

I'm inserting an apostrophe where your sun does not shine. You big girl.

[Bad English]

Gerard Houllier

"You know, Liverpool’s results are the results I always look for. And the title of my book says it all: “Je Ne Marcherai Jamais Seul” ... “I’ll Never Walk Alone”."

Houllier is assisting Houllier. As ever.

[PeterWithesShin]

Third time is the charm BE!

[Bad English]

Houllier has always got on my tits; before you had heard of him in the UK.

[pauliewalnuts]

That's not the point i'm making though. Would you have sacked MON straight after the 7-1 as well?

Of course not. If you finish top 6 for the third year on the trot then get slaughtered at Chelsea you at least get the benefit of the doubt. Lambert's 8-0 was something else though. I'd have sacked him on the spot and I said it at the time as well.

I reckon there were four or five occasions - or runs of results more accurately - in Lambert's tenure which would have got pretty much any other manager the sack.

Yet somehow he remained unscathed.

We also had that horrible sequence of: get a really unexpected win (at Anfield, for example) gain plaudits, then go on a truly hideous run of results for 9 or 10 matches, then repeat.

There were plenty of times he could have been sacked and had no complaints. I just disagree that straight after the 8-0 was one of them.

Wasn't actually referring to that match at all, just the sort of seemingly endless cycles of doom Lambert managed to survive.