Past Managers, Love or Hate?

[ASHTONVILLA]

Liked

Saunders / Barton
Atkinson
Taylor
Little
Smith

Disliked

O'Leary
McNeill
Garde
Lambert
Di Matteo

Liked as a person but didn't rate as a manager

Turner
Mcleish
Bruce
Venglos
Gerrard

Liked for a while

ONeill
Gregory

[brontebilly]

Tony Cascarino said that when they were in the RoI squad O'Leary would talk about anything except football.

Cas absolutely hates O'Leary, it's kind of a strange one as they were teammates for years but weren't competing for the same position. DOL has an uncanny ability to piss people off, Charlton of course exiled him from the international squad for years in one of his first acts as Ireland manager. Martin Laursen is another one who can't stand him.

[Monty]

Pissing off personalities as diverse Tony Cascarino, Jack Charlton and Martin Laursen is quite the range.

[Bad English]

Remember that Berson guy we signed? Was huge hype, he came in and looked neat and tidy and then didn't play again and was just loaned out for a year or two.

Pretty much identical to Sanson. Our record with French players isn't the best.

Ginola, Amavi, Makoun II, Veretout, Six. It's a long list.

There is an even longer list of English players who have been shit for us. Our record with English players is therefore worse.

[Monty]

Remember that Berson guy we signed? Was huge hype, he came in and looked neat and tidy and then didn't play again and was just loaned out for a year or two.

Pretty much identical to Sanson. Our record with French players isn't the best.

Ginola, Amavi, Makoun II, Veretout, Six. It's a long list.

There is an even longer list of English players who have been shit for us. Our record with English players is therefore worse.

No BE. We've already 'gone foreign' and it hasn't worked.

[edgysatsuma89]

Can someone help me out here? I'm trying to remember the name of a manager who Dean Saunders hated (and most of the players). There was some story about the manager and a player having a scrap and Dean saying he wanted to kick the manager while he was down. I think Dean was pissed at someone scoring as well as it kept him in a job. I heard it on the Socially Distant Sports Bar podcast a while ago so it was probably a Wales manager. It's just bugging me that I can't remember.

Edit: Ignore. I did what I should have done in the first place and looked at all the Wales managers he played under. It was Bobby Gould.

[rob_bridge]

Can someone help me out here? I'm trying to remember the name of a manager who Dean Saunders hated (and most of the players). There was some story about the manager and a player having a scrap and Dean saying he wanted to kick the manager while he was down. I think Dean was pissed at someone scoring as well as it kept him in a job. I heard it on the Socially Distant Sports Bar podcast a while ago so it was probably a Wales manager. It's just bugging me that I can't remember.

Edit: Ignore. I did what I should have done in the first place and looked at all the Wales managers he played under. It was Bobby Gould.

Before you got the end I'd ruled out Villa (Little/BFR), Oxford and Derby (Arthur Cox) so it was either Souness or Gould.

[edgysatsuma89]

Can someone help me out here? I'm trying to remember the name of a manager who Dean Saunders hated (and most of the players). There was some story about the manager and a player having a scrap and Dean saying he wanted to kick the manager while he was down. I think Dean was pissed at someone scoring as well as it kept him in a job. I heard it on the Socially Distant Sports Bar podcast a while ago so it was probably a Wales manager. It's just bugging me that I can't remember.

Edit: Ignore. I did what I should have done in the first place and looked at all the Wales managers he played under. It was Bobby Gould.

Before you got the end I'd ruled out Villa (Little/BFR), Oxford and Derby (Arthur Cox) so it was either Souness or Gould.

Dropping Savage for jokingly chucking a Maldini shirt in the bin and then reinstating him a day later. Sounds like a bit of a.. err... character.

[SoccerHQ]

Can someone help me out here? I'm trying to remember the name of a manager who Dean Saunders hated (and most of the players). There was some story about the manager and a player having a scrap and Dean saying he wanted to kick the manager while he was down. I think Dean was pissed at someone scoring as well as it kept him in a job. I heard it on the Socially Distant Sports Bar podcast a while ago so it was probably a Wales manager. It's just bugging me that I can't remember.

Edit: Ignore. I did what I should have done in the first place and looked at all the Wales managers he played under. It was Bobby Gould.

Before you got the end I'd ruled out Villa (Little/BFR), Oxford and Derby (Arthur Cox) so it was either Souness or Gould.

Dropping Savage for jokingly chucking a Maldini shirt in the bin and then reinstating him a day later. Sounds like a bit of a.. err... character.

Wales were also training at a prison before games in those times. No wonder Giggs never wanted to play for them.

[dcdavecollett]

Respected/Revered: Crowe, Saunders, Taylor, Big Ron, TMWWOW, Gregory(at least the start),
MO'N (in some respects), Bruce(see across), Deano, Unai.

The rest (I started in 1965) were either not very good or were in a near-impossible situation where the way the club was run made any progress very difficult. (e.g. Joe Mercer).

[johnny from donny]

Liked: Saunders Atkinson & Taylor
Disliked: O'Leary,  McNeill & Di Matteo
Trying to forget: Bruce, Garde and Lambert
Absolutely hate with every fibre of my being and that's putting it VERY mildly: Houllier and Gerrard .

[LeeB]

Can someone help me out here? I'm trying to remember the name of a manager who Dean Saunders hated (and most of the players). There was some story about the manager and a player having a scrap and Dean saying he wanted to kick the manager while he was down. I think Dean was pissed at someone scoring as well as it kept him in a job. I heard it on the Socially Distant Sports Bar podcast a while ago so it was probably a Wales manager. It's just bugging me that I can't remember.

Edit: Ignore. I did what I should have done in the first place and looked at all the Wales managers he played under. It was Bobby Gould.

Before you got the end I'd ruled out Villa (Little/BFR), Oxford and Derby (Arthur Cox) so it was either Souness or Gould.

Dropping Savage for jokingly chucking a Maldini shirt in the bin and then reinstating him a day later. Sounds like a bit of a.. err... character.

Wales were also training at a prison before games in those times. No wonder Giggs never wanted to play for them.

I think it was Mark Hately on the Under the Cosh podcast recently that said Gould was a wanker, literally his words.