Past Managers, Love or Hate?

[olaftab]

I notice that Unai Emery thread has been hijacked by a like/dislike discussion about past managers.  I really want to see that thread stay pure and shiny just like the man himself so let's have some thoughts on here about past managers. Please keep it simple, the one that you most liked and the one you really hated.
For me:
Liked: Sir Brian Little.
Disliked: Dave O'Leary (makes my blood boil at the mention of his name.

[Monty]

Most liked at the time: MON.

Most disliked since then: MON.

[aj2k77]

Liked : Little
Disliked : Lambert

[ozzjim]

Liked... Smith

Disliked... Oleary or Gerrard. Both are thundercunts.

[rob_bridge]

Liked: BFR - gave us our mojo back and raised profile.
Disliked: This is a very difficult one - probably Houllier.

[Edvard Remberg]

Liked,  Little,  JG, Unai
Dislike, O'leary, Gerrard, Black. Sherwood, Garde, Di Matteo
Edit: Forgot Bruce! I hated the "We go again"...

[LeeB]

Liked: SGT

Hated: Gerrard.

I've never wanted a manager gone more than I did that prick. Even O'Leary I could muster some sympathy for as he had to work with relatively little funds under Doug. The feeling when the news of his sacking came through was pure joy.

[ez]

Speaking of past managers, Steven Gerrard has been talking about us to the telegraph. Sorry if it's already posted.

Steven Gerrard:
I actually felt my own performance at Villa was really good. I actually felt I went to the next level in terms of what I had learnt from Rangers. I felt like I had grown. But we had a bad run of results. I have to own that & take full responsibility for that..”

“I think when top footballers are not performing at their level I am not going to pull any punches. We had players who weren’t giving what I felt they should have been giving at the time & that’s my responsibility..”

“Villa is a fantastic club. It was an incredible opportunity at the time & I have nothing bad to say. The owners gave me a fantastic chance..”

“The initial period, our form was top 8 in the Premier League & obviously the opinion of me now from a lot of people will be that I failed, if you like, but I know there was a period there where we got an awful lot of things right. We had the team doing okay..”

[Tayls_7]

Liked = Dr Jo, SGT, BFR, Sir B, JG, Deano.
Hate = Pubehead, Old Dreary, Lamberk, Mr Slippy.
Ambivalent = The rest.

[Villan82]

Like: Little, Gregory, Smith
Dislike: O'Leary, Gerrard, McLeish, Houllier, and Lambert

Madly, deeply in love with: Emery.

[PeterWithesShin]

Liked most - Saunders

Disliked most - McNeill

Honourable mentions: SGT, Barton, Sir Brian, Dean, Unai

Dishonourable mentions: DO'L, MON, Gerrard, Bruce.

[Monty]

I assumed we're not including Unai in this thread?

[Axl Rose]

Like: Big Ron, Little, Gregory, Unai

Don't mind: Smith, O'Neil

Dislike: Lambert, Garde, Bruce, Sherwood, Houllier

Hate: Eric Black and miniature head stevie

Not worth much thought: Di Matteo, O'Leary

[kippaxvilla2]

Back onto Bruce who I didn't dislike by the way, I think his big problem apart from his very meat and potatoes football is that he was bordering on lazy.  Lots of anecdotes about him slipping off to his Algarve apartment every chance he could get.  And the infamous 'I don't do tactics' comment was pretty much borne out once he came up against a half decent opponent.

[Tayls_7]

I assumed we're not including Unai in this thread?

I'm afraid we've had to let him go.

United.

Colchester United.