Not quite worthy of this thread but worth recording
winners have a good perfume, and when you don't win you smell so bad"
Pep Guardiola, Manchester, October 2020
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 4 October 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
“It's no good him getting 100 goals if we're letting in 50 the other end'.”John Yems, Crawley Town, October 2020(This interview is a minor classic of the “manager spitting feathers” genre, the context is we’d just scraped a 2-1 win over Crawley with a jammy goal; Yems used to be Asst Manager at Exeter.)
― Tim, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 07:43 (three years ago) link
This, I mean: https://youtu.be/PuVXi3sqIkw
― Tim, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
what do we make of that from yerman. gonna say I'm in favour
― imago, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 11:39 (three years ago) link
Baxter?
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
dyche ffs
THE PRESS | WARNING: This isn't your average press conference! 😳😅— Burnley FC (@BurnleyOfficial) February 2, 2021
― imago, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
Do people really say "lookylikey"?
Takes me back to the days of person sending round chain emails with terribly compressed jpgs of Denis Irwin/Carlos the Jackal
― The Man DeLorean (onimo), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
Cant be having with any of this foreign luki-liki nonsense, four at the back, two up front and go long when you have to
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link
'pinteresque'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJfLHmU1eRE
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link
new fave gaffer obv
He was our assistant mgr under Tisdale for a bit, always seemed an odd combo.
― Tim, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
Not really in the spirit of the thread but it’ll have to do. This story was told on the Exeter fans forum today:
They used to tell a story at Plymouth Argyle, going back to the days when Peter Shilton had been placed in charge of the team, that offers a little snapshot perhaps of how sometimes even the greats of the sport can lose their sheen once they dabble in the unforgiving world of football management.Shilton was player-manager, or rather goalkeeper-manager, at the time. Plymouth were slipping into trouble in the old Third Division, the fingers of relegation closing round their necks for the second time in three years, and Shilton was trying to encourage his players to believe they could clamber away from the bottom three and rise like a “pheasant from the flames”.After a slightly awkward silence, someone tentatively pointed out the word he might have been looking for was “phoenix”. Shilton, standing in front of his players as a double European Cup winner and the record England appearance-maker, paused for a few moments to take it in, the realisation dawning that his motivational speech had not gone quite as planned. He needed a line to reassert his authority. “I knew it began with an F,” he said.
― Tim, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:06 (two years ago) link
Ha
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link
I notice one of this thread's favourite gaffers has been making headlines:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/apr/12/northern-ireland-england-womens-world-cup-2023-qualifier-match-report
― Où est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 April 2022 11:33 (two years ago) link
"Anybody can be a coach or a manager and go and say ‘right, there’s a possession, there’s a game and there’s some passing’. Anybody can do it. But not everybody can do it like [Fotheringham]."
Kenny Miller, Huddersfield Town.
not strictly the gaffer but I do understand why Fotheringham has brought in someone to the club who is even dumber than himself.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 February 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
ahahaha
― imago, Thursday, 2 February 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
Beautiful
― Godzilla: (laughs) You are a fool, Mozart. You will never defeat me. (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 2 February 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
I love this thread do much
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
so
I take it that's the Kenny Miller?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
From Mark Fotheringham's Wiki page:
Mark McKay Buzz Lightyear Fotheringham (born 22 October 1983) is a Scottish football coach and former player who is currently not succeeding as coach of EFL Championship club Huddersfield Town. He became the head coach after a rather romantic evening with Leigh Bromby in Da Sandros where he was promised a lucrative 3 year deal for bending over when prompted.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
he's objectively the worst htafc manager I've seen in my lifetime. I won't go too far into it because it would be a very fucking tedious and long post. Short version: extremely thick, tactically clueless - does pointless like for like subs when a game is desperately needing a change, constantly throws players under the bus publicly and more frequently the younger ones. But this is worst bit, he talks absolute garbage but aggressively adds "Listen!" too every sentence! Also even lots of people outside of the world of online HTAFC fans are starting to notice how extremely deranged + embarrassing his post-match pressers are, without fail every week it's like he's commenting from a parallel universe about a completely different match and some of the football podcasts have picked up on this and even they have noticed how bizarre it is that this inconsequential moron is managing in the 2nd tier of english football
― calzino, Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/EXRCDD/1990s-uk-miller-magazine-advert-EXRCDD.jpg
"I take it that's the Kenny Miller?"
― calzino, Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link
unfortunately, yes
― calzino, Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link
“I think the vegan food is quite nice – I enjoy it. Chips are vegan, I didn’t know that. It is a worry with the planet. It is a shame what is happening: you can see it is happening and we are all starting to be aware of it. What is going to happen to our kids and grandkids? It’s real. The club has been great, it is fantastic what they are doing. Other clubs should be taking it up. I had a wee bit of vegan curry, a wee pie and mash today. I haven’t tried the burger yet. I might try one on Saturday if we get a victory.” Duncan Ferguson
― Godzilla: (laughs) You are a fool, Mozart. You will never defeat me. (a hoy hoy), Friday, 3 February 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
i was wondering how that was panning out :D
― imago, Friday, 3 February 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
“So yes, I missed out on a couple of good players early on in the summer, but I’ve always been a massive believer as a manager in fate, and when a player tells me they’re going somewhere else I always say to them ‘well it’s your mistake, son, you’ve missed out there’, and that’s how I feel. I don’t dwell on it, I always just think ‘well, something will happen, they’ll get injured or something’. I just get on with what I’ve got and try not to moan about it too much.”
the sageness + serenity of Neil Warnock
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 3 August 2023 23:47 (eight months ago) link
Bear with me with this one but it's something I've often thought about it. Managers (and players too now) often refer to "moments" when talking about games but I'm pretty sure this wasn't a part of gaffer vocab until the advent of non-English speaking managers and players into the English/British game, and it still sounds kind of weird coming out of the mouth of, say, Sean Dyche rather than Arsene Wenger. I want to say it was Dutch players who I first noticed doing this but can't be certain.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 September 2023 09:28 (seven months ago) link