Favourite manager ever? (4 Viewers)

[EasternGreenSkyBlue]

For City and in general.

City: Big Ron

Ever: Brian Clough

Even tho Clough was way before my time (I'm 21) Ive seen interviews, Films and read books on him, The bloke is an absolute hero and if rumors are true he very nearly managed us!

 

---

[torchomatic]

Gordon Milne for me as he was manager when I first started going regularly. Fond memories.

 

[ccfcmustang]

City: Has to be John Sillett

Ever: Bob Paisley

 

[skybluesam66]

john sillett barry fry

 

[EasternGreenSkyBlue]

Barry Frys seen more Heart Attacks than a cardiologist. Loves the game

 

[SIR ERNIE]

Noel Cantwell for me: Gained highest ever 6th place finish in old First Division and the only manager to take us into Europe.

 

[Karl87]

City: Eric Black. A bit like JFK, everybody loved him because he didn't get a chance to get it wrong. If he hadn't been sacked he might have slipped up and lost the fans, but it was the most sustained period of entertaining football (and big wins!) in a long time.

Ever: Obvious choice but it has to be Fergie. To be consistently successful over that length of time is incredible. A lot of recent Man City, Chelsea and Liverpool managers have proven it's not necessarily easy to craft a winning team, even if you do have star players and huge puts of money available to you. Sure, money and star players will make your life easier, but you need the skills to pull everything together

 

[RFC]

Probably JH (sadly he's not at all well) and the "one that got away",
Brian Clough!

 

[Manchester_sky_blue]

Gordon Milne and Ian Holloway.

 

[TheRoyalScam]

1) Jimmy Hill
2) John Sillett
3) Noel Cantwell

All of them ex-professionals who understood the game and demanded 100%.

JH got us promoted to the big league, JS won the FA Cup, NC got us into Europe with our highest ever finishing position.

 

[WillieStanley]

:facepalm:Let me see... The first manager I remember as a fan was Big Ron

So Ive had the honour of supporting a club managed by:

Ron Atkinson
Gordon Strachan
Roland Nilsson
Gary McAllister
Eric Black
Peter Reid
Micky Adams
Iain Dowie
Chris Coleman
Aidy Boothroyd
Andy Thorn
Mark Robins
Steven Pressley

All high achievers. Who to choose??? :thinking about:

 

[Sba180]

Mark robins because he would have, in my opinion, got us up had he been given 100% assurances and stayed.

Everyone loves snoz 1. Because of his passion and 2. He bought us our greatest moment (to date)

 

[Roger Mellie]

I'm with Torch on Gordon Milne. Happy days when football was innocent and I held all things Sky Blue in god-like reverence, whilst trying to swap 20 assorted Football 78 cards to get that pesky Partick Thistle badge to complete the set!
I have to admit to a soft spot for Jose mourhino. An old school blast of character and quirkiness when compared to the identikit ex-player clones from FA coaching courses that seem to have taken over

 

[williesdonkeykick]

Gordon Milne and Brian Clough

 

[Moff]

Gordon Milne coupled with John Sillett. Both great managers, and great times, good players, and just happy to talk about the football.

Away from the club, the late great Clough, a man apart.

 

[covcity4life]

Jose Mourinho, i really like AVB too after the crap he got at chelsea and the silly radio phone ins where they dismiss his treble at porto, and who doesnt like bobby robson?..all 3 are linked-coincidence?

cov manager? i liked big ron jsut because it felt like we had a top top name manager,i miss those days, and of course pressley!

 

[Monners]

Milne - first one I remember and great footballing ethic regarding how we played (see semi final with WHU in 81), and Snoz for similar reasons, mainly team and work ethic though.

Outside: Clough

 

[blueflint]

jimmy hill simply the best

 

[covcity4life]

oh yeh jimmy!

 

[Otis]

Now you did say 'favourite' rather than 'best' didn't you, before anyone starts jumping down my throat ........


Bobby Gould. Just because I really like the bloke and he's Coventry through and through. Really wanted him to succeed and for a while he did.

Best manager ever? Bill Shankley.

Best City manager in my lifetime, Gordon Milne.

 

[Bill Glazier]

JH then JS

 

[deanocity3]

Sillett for Fa Cup
but Gordon Milne for signing his mate hutch.we had financial problems under him selling star players, bringing in kids great youth system.wally and fergie era77-78,then another side with tommo,hateley in 1981.happy times

 

[Skybluerevolution (Pt2)]

I was not around for JH as Manager, but for all he has done for CCFC and football, I would choose him, but not far behind would be Snoz and George, purely for those few months when my club was the center of the world, Wogan, Blue Peter, Central, BBC, Go for it CITY...everyone wanted a bit of the Sky Blues...and as an all time John'Jock'Stein the first British manager to lift the European Cup with a British Team (Champions League for the younger peeps) Celtic won the EC with a team of players that all came from Scotland and 9 of them were born within 9 miles of Glasgow, he signed Catholics and Prodestants - he was a Prodestant, and overcame the bitter sectarianism that was rife in Scotland in the 60's, he was an innovator in tactics, and studied opposition teams and formations, took this on the the training pitch and drilled his team into how to beat them, this is done today at all clubs, but in 1960 was unheard of apart from the great Helenio Herrera who Stein studied at close range...sorry to go on but he was a great, like Shankley, Buzby, Paisley, Ferguson.

 

[deanocity3]

I think Scottish managers brought up in 1940's had something about them.

 

[skyblueinBaku]

Jimmy Hill. No question.

 

[Otis]

Jimmy Hill. No question.

Jimmy Hill was before my time unfortunately.

 

[shmmeee]

Robins probably, just liked everything aboiut us under him: style of play, motivation, media style.

I liked Dowie as well and obviously when we were still in the Prem I liked Strachan, but that opinion changed pretty quickly.

 

[Paxman II]

Jimmy Hill without doubt. I would put the Wee man in there though somewhere for some good times and good spirit as I remember beating Berkamp's Arsenal at Christmas 3-2 and plenty of good stuff then.

 

[RedSalmon]

Dave Sexton. Always enjoyed the football under him. Brought some good kids through if I remeber correctly.

 

[rondog1973]

City: Has to be John Sillett

Ever: Bob Paisley

I'll second that on both fronts.

 

[Skybluerevolution (Pt2)]

I think Scottish managers brought up in 1940's had something about them.

Stein and Busby came from villages not far apart in Lanarkshire and Jimmy Jonstone the player was from Bellshill the same as Busby...your right some great managers, Paisley, Busby and Stein were all miners before footballers, so they knew what hard graft was, maybe that is where their focus and work ethic came from...

 

[saxon_exile]

Not Coventry, but I once had the privilege of working for (not Sir then) Bobby Robson, and have enormous respect for what he achieved. You don't get to take a small town club like Ipswich to a European title with a team mostly developed in your own youth system, get closer to success with England than anybody since 1966, and to repeat that success with big continental clubs like Barcelona and PSV just by luck.

A Bobby Robson quote which is quite applicable to Coventry at the moment:

"What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or directors, or the people who are paid to represent it.
It's not the television contracts, get out clauses, or the marketing departments or executive boxes.
It's the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city."

Edit: Bobby Robson was a miner before he became a footballer too.

 

[Vedere]

Sillett.

Ever - Jock Stein.

As a side note on Barry Fry, I was walking up to HFR and he was driving past in his soft top, good down, personalized reg, happy as l(b)arry and some City fan shouts: 'Barry' (pause), Barry looks up and waves, 'you fat b&$****!' And to his credit he chuckled and said 'hiya!' Characters like him are what the are needs and as someone said - he loves it!

 

[You'll Never Beat McPake]

JH was a bit beforw my time but my schoolboy memories were all Gordon Milne. 81 league cup semi v West Ham was a great moment. Brought through many local youngsters(Garry Thompson, Danny Thomas, Tom English, Mark Hatelet to name a few). All time has to be Alf Ramsey, 66 WC winner.

 

[deanocity3]

last I heard of Gordon milne was he lived in burbage Hinckley round the corner from Sven