The Day The Promises Had To Stop

[Monroe Transfer 0]

Thias should have Leazes aal ower this thread.

 

Where is he?

 

Too many uncomfortable truths.

[ChezGiven 0]

Going to get a copy of this next week, should be an interesting read.

[Matt 0]

In my eyes we should never have sacked Bobby, simple as that. Finishing 5th isn't good enough for this club? We should have been building on Bobby's legacy then moving him upstairs, Fat Fred was a prick beyond belief imo.

 

Johnnie and Douggie sacked Robson. Freddie did as he was told to keep his plum job.

[shackbleep 0]

Thias should have Leazes aal ower this thread.

 

Where is he?

 

Organising a 'burn the book' get together I should imagine.

[sandman02uk 0]

Book arrived today, I'm planning to read it and Sir Bob's autobiography next week on holiday

[Monroe Transfer 0]

Fat Fred was on 5 Live talking about all this around 8.15 this morning. Only heard bits of what he said.

 

Mostly his bemusement at the guy's contempt for him and, yes, a bit of talking up about our high positions under his regime.

[Dolly Potter MD 0]

The board's succession plan [giving SBR one final season] was the right thing to do. If anything it came one year too late, as there were signs in 02/03 that SBR was losing his sharpness in the dug-out, among other things.

 

Of course it was handled badly, on two counts. One being Shepherd announcing it to the press before consulting Robson, the other being the Halls' panic-button sacking after the Villa game - it was Hall Jr bleating 'he would of got us relegated!' to the press.

 

There's little room for sentimentality in football, it's a sometimes brutal business where pride takes a backseat to footballing based decisions and egos are often bruised for the greater good. As inferred by Mourinho, it would have been hard to envision SBR standing aside of his volition. Apart from those two points raised earlier, i have little problem with the board's much maligned brutalness in this instance and SBR's rolling one year contraact made it easy for the board to faciliate.

 

Over a decade ago [when Hall Jr & Shepherd first approached him to succeed Keegan] Robson was just as brutal in his assessment of the board's advances [when they tried to headhunt him, he wasn't appreciative of either Hall Jr & Shepherd's brazenness back then] when he was at Barca. There was little room for sentimentality at the time on SBR's part, when there was a cushy & well paying upstairs job awaiting him within the halls of the Nou Camp.

 

I'm grateful for what he accomplished here, and during his better days here [when he was sharp, and at/or near the top of his game] he was the architect behind what was a successful rebuilding period. But he was an extremely career-minded individual, and basically took up post here after his prospects of managing another big club on the continent had expired. It's an unsentimental game at times, and in this sense Robson was another dice roller and by no means shitless saint either.