The Wisdom of Gaffers

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It's not necessarily an easy situation to continually keep winning.

Kenny Jackett, Wolverhampton Wanderers, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 15 March 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link

The second goal, just before half time was absolute comedy for me. Our corner, and then they score from our corner. You work that one out.

Gareth Ainsworth, Wycombe Wanderers, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 15 March 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link

We would love to do that for the course of 90 minutes but you know at some stage the opposition's going to try and stop you or help you in some way.

Nigel Worthington, York City, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 15 March 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link

I'm a winner. I want to win so bad.

Tim Sherwood, Tottenham Hotspur, March 2014.

anonanon, Monday, 17 March 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link

i'm a airplane. i want to fly so bad.

treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Monday, 17 March 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link

I need three or four Sam Stantons in the team and I haven't got that.

I need three or four Duncan Watmores in the team and I haven't got that.

Terry Butcher, Hibernian, March 2014

two bunny rabbits on mushrooms singing Proclaimers songs (onimo), Monday, 17 March 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link

We've slightly forgotten how to win a game

Justin Edinburgh, Newport County, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link

I've had a chance to see Munich a few times, I watched them at Arsenal and they are a good team

David Moyes, Manchester United, March 2014

nakhchivan, Saturday, 22 March 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link

Our chef is fantastic - he's open to new ideas

Sean Dyche, Burnley, March 2014

imago, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link

Bryan Robson making me laugh for the first time since he left management

nah, really, great post (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link

yh the robson one is beautiful

imago, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link

jesus christ you can't get iPlayer within the Pale????

treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link

ban iain dowie

imago, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:50 (ten years ago) link

yeah for a second there i was hoping it'd be the joek with the punchline "that's easy, Joist wrote Ulysses and Girder wrote Faust"

but no such joy

nah, really, great post (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:51 (ten years ago) link

mcleish fascination with large mammals understandable given some of his teams' football

imago, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link

interesting to see who can actually tell a joke, McLeish is none too shabby, Pleat was fucken painful

nah, really, great post (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link

first iteration i ever heard of that camel joke was the racist one my dad told me when i was a kid

nah, really, great post (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link

permaban bobby gould

imago, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link

i gave up before Bobby Gould, figured it wasnae gonna get any better than Robson's

nah, really, great post (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link

robson's 2nd joke is almost transcendentally lame <3

imago, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link

SHAUN DERRY OUT OF NOWHERE

imago, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link

dowiiiiieeeee noooooo

imago, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link

that's londonderry, son

treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:13 (ten years ago) link

Gerry Francis you've let yrself down

nah, really, great post (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:19 (ten years ago) link

Craig Disley thought he could have done slightly better and the keeper makes a good save but from where I was it's hard to judge until you really look back.

Paul Hurst, Grimsby Town, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link

They're a tremendous group, they keep ramming everything back down my throat and that's what I want.

Paul Cox, Mansfield Town, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link

There were a lot of positives from the game, which I will keep, in terms of we kept the ball.

John Gregory, Crawley Town, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link

There's two spirals in football: one up and one down, there's nothing in between.

Steve Cotterill, Bristol City, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link

We just need to play consistently at a level where we win games.

Dougie Freedman, Bolton Wanderers, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link

I'm very disappointed but in English football you have to pay attention to the last, last minute of the game. This is the rule of English football.

Beppe Sannino, Watford, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link

I don't think that's a thought in any shape or form.

Gary Brazil, Nottingham Forest (caretaker), March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link

Another day in the football factory and a few more mistakes.

Mark Robins, Huddersfield Town, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link

We've had our own share of things not given for us so I understand Paul Dickov's frustration, I've been him on a number of occasions.

Sean Dyche, Burnley, March 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link

two weeks pass...

whatever you do in work or life you don't want criticism

Alan Pardew, Newcastle United, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Thursday, 10 April 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link

I don't over-think each one as it comes

Sean Dyche, Burnley, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 12 April 2014 10:59 (ten years ago) link

I believe we can win games between now and the end of the season. How many will that be? Who knows.

Chris Wilder, Northampton Town, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:02 (ten years ago) link

All my focus at the moment is the next game to try and stay within my process.

Kenny Jackett, Wolverhampton Wanderers, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:09 (ten years ago) link

Yet I am not here to complain, I am just here to find a solution

Jose Riga, Charlton Athletic, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 12 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link

I have spoken to the referee and it always amazes when they say 'it is in your opinion'. I have looked at it 47 times on my laptop so I don't know how it is (an) opinion, that's what I am flummoxed with.

Sean Dyche, Burnley, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 12 April 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link

dyyyyche

halber mensch halber keks (imago), Saturday, 12 April 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link

Everyone's very excited because we've won a game and results have gone our way, but this league's like that.

Paul Cook, Chesterfield, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 12 April 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link

Our work ethic was not at the level that it takes to win.

I always ask for a little bit more not a little bit less

I don't think some of the individuals have learned yet to be team players and spread the winning habit.

If the impossible is going to become possible, the work ethic has got to go up, the discipline has got to go up, the sense of responsibility has to go up and we've got to be prepared to play the game that we work on all week.

Graham Westley, Stevenage, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 12 April 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link

Once they got in the lead they had that mindset that they were desperate to hang on to it.

Mark Cooper, Swindon Town, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 12 April 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link

If you need to show somebody somewhere in the world where they don't watch Sunderland every week, you show him this game and tell him this is the story of the season and that's it.

I don't have a word because it's not one feeling, really. It hurts, it hurts because it doesn't matter what we do, something happens. And it's not an excuse, I don't really believe in luck.

Gus Poyet, Sunderland, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 12 April 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link

Tom Ince will be a top Premier League player, without a shadow of a doubt. He's got all the attributes and everything else.

Tony Pulis, Crystal Palace, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 07:53 (ten years ago) link

The people who jeered were born stupid and won't die intelligent

Lucien Favre, Borussia Monchengladbach, April 2014

pandemic, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 12:55 (ten years ago) link

We cannot face more reality than today.

Jose Riga, Charlton Athletic, April 2014

r|t|c, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link

I don't think you can look at the table and worry, because it will just give you a heart attack

Chris Hargreaves, Torquay United, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 07:52 (ten years ago) link

They are in the same situation as us, just outside that bottom-four problem area.

Peter Taylor, GIllingham, April 2014.

William Bloody Swygart, Friday, 18 April 2014 10:35 (ten years ago) link


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