the platonic ideal of the scottish epl manager

Coyle's probably as good a guy as any to rebuild Bolton and take them back up, which will probably happen fairly soon. The rest of the bottom half Scots should all go immediately.

mcleish - fired
coyle - relegated
dalglish - fired
kean - lol

taking up three of the champions league spots tbf.

http://i.imgur.com/QLrwa.jpg

just lambert hanging on from the non-dynastics

twitter awash with
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rumours

lambert is the only one of these cunts still in the epl, and mackay and steve clarke have both gone since

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/27118042

darkly romantic 27-year reign of Sir Alex Ferguson

First we cannae play worth a fuck and now we cannae even manage

thesse cunts mostly played pretty terrible fitba and the epl is better for their absence but it's part of a general, belated changing of the guard, the age of gary megson is past

the suggestion that half of them got jobs because of ferguson's advice is interesting, unfalsifiable perhaps but one can imagine some credulous naive owner like randy lerner feeling iffy about appointing alex mcleish until he gets a call from ferguson that makes him sound like the second coming of jock stein

combined with all the ex-ferguson players, profoundly useless cunts like ince, keane, robson etc...... probably half of the managers in the epl during the mid-late 00s came from one of these two categories, pretty amazing

I'm glad this "advice from Ferguson" thing is passing. Not just the anointing/appointing of managers but all that shit about "have you spoken to Sir Alex?" thing that got thrown at any former Fergie employee who got a job and lost a game (apart from Keane, maybe).

im in awe of how much influence he had beyond the confines of his own team

remember when his son was fired and he immediately recalled the players he had leant him on loan in a blatant fit of pique

subsidiary question for the scots, how true is it the truism scottish football was more technical and skilful than english football.....the era of celtic 67 through law, dalglish and so forth, did the production of these players reflect the general picture of how football was played? clearly nobody would associate scottish teams or players now with refinement or flair

That was the propaganda, that the Scottish team were all 5 ft 2 inch ball players and the English a bunch of huffin' 'n' puffin' red-in-the-face heffalumps + cloggers, following the Alf Ramsay approach to winning World Cups

Which was easy to swallow if, you know, Jimmy Johnstone was lining up against Mick Mills. We still fucking lost though.

I think Scottish football was more willing to give team places to wee tanner baw players but even here they were seen as luxuries by the mid 70s.

first time in epl history no scottish managers

rip big men

and billy davies

can we not check idk allardyce under grandfather rule

sad

no more polish popes either

no more irish players in top four

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/cms_images/player/shane-long-ronald-koeman148-1828782_478x359.jpg

long forgotten

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/resources/images/4466069.jpg

blimey who's this guy

"It was strange being back. After nine months out, for the first time in 40 years I was enjoying my life. Then you are back in the hot seat - the highs and lows - but it's great to be back."

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alex-mcleish-tells-egypt-nightmare-8090921

“I really liked living in Cairo. I went because I was fed up sitting on my backside in London doing nothing, except going to games every week or watching some pals training their Premier League teams. And it was a team that had half a chance of winning.

“I got on well and could walk the streets no problem. I had to wear a bunnet and sunglasses so they thought I was a tourist but as soon as I took it off to wipe away the sweat they saw it was the big ginger Scottish coach and they’d be over for their selfies and a chat.

“Martin Jol also managed over there and lived across the road from me. It was good off the field and we got through two rounds to get to the last eight of the Champions League of Africa which isn’t played until July. I’d have loved to have had a go at that."