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A sad and true story. But to be fair, it's a small sample size at present - 10 managers have been and gone since Strachan, rather than a hundred. There's also been a bit of 'right place, wrong time' - imagine if Nilsson and Money and Black had been given the same amount of time as Coleman...

Managerial win rate is, at best, a stat that can be used to garnish an argument. Nothing more than that.

It's fantastical to think that way. I can't think of a single club that has kept on an underachieving and unpopular manager for years, let alone a decade. Managers tend to have a shelf life at any given club, and Strachan had expired. Not necessarily. A manager's ability is important, of...

Things did improve. Strachan left the team in 18th position in mid September. The new management took them to 6th place by Christmas.

Nobody would say there weren't good times under Strachan, but those last 18 months or so were dreadful. His time had come.

Two issues spring to mind: 1. It is not easy to find £12-15m when you are in L1 and don't have any real assets to borrow against. 2. Financial Fair Play would likely be a factor. It limits wages to (I think) 60% of turnover in L1. With big transfer expenditure comes big wages. The best...

I don't think that's a problem in itself. It's the lack of regulation elsewhere that makes it problematic. So, for instance, why not put a limit on squad sizes? The richer teams would be unable to hoard quality players, and smaller clubs wouldn't have to break the bank to compete against those...

Agreed, but I think the concept of the revolutionary manager is outdated. I wonder how Jimmy would handle today's players, who have all the leverage. Some things I'd like to see: 1. An American-style two-tier system of the general manager (director of football) and the first team coach. It...

Imitation Game: 6/10. Engaging enough, but disappointed with the historical inaccuracies, including Turing being played as an Aspergers type. Didn't think it was significantly better than Enigma, which came out over a decade ago. Big Eyes: 6.5/10. Predictable, light, pretty well-executed. Too...

I'm curious why you are this decisive on Pressley, but defended and supported Thorn - even after relegation.

Yep. Now is not the time to be firing Pressley.

This is about critical thinking rather than tribalism. And yes, we should demand at least a moderate standard from every citizen. To mindlessly parrot the op-eds of tabloids or the soundbites of politicians is give a few the licence to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us. It...

To some extent, but society has changed. I'm not sure what 'working class' means in today's day and age. The era of mass industrialisation, flat caps and a blood-class sytem is done. I find the idea of a 1% and a 99% much more helpful; that is to say, I think a solicitor or teacher or...

I think that's about the ceiling for a few reasons: 1. Pro-EU people won't vote for them (now a majority according to recent polling) 2. The left and intelligentsia won't vote for them (partnering with holocaust deniers, racists, dodgy expenses, homophobes etc.) 3. The vast majority of their...

That really doesn't matter; it's just an easy slur that newspapers use. Rather, it should be about the character of the man. Case in point: one of the greatest US presidents was Theodore Roosevelt. He was as privileged as anybody could be - from aristocratic stock, wealthy, Harvard. But he would...

That's the point - the significant reason why governments don't do the 'right thing' is because the population is too busy giving benefit claimants a kick rather than taking apart the rot at the top. This thread, in its own small way, is why the country is in a poor state. Which media outlets...

The Tories are very much peasant-bashers. Have you not seen the chancellor's categorisation of jobseekers as 'scroungers with the curtains drawn', or seen the rise in food banks, or read about the cuts to welfare, hardship funds, local councils, sanctioning at job centres, bedroom tax, smashing...

I wouldn't want to either. But there's a larger point. If you search the forum you'll find a ton of threads about benefits, many of which come from the newsbot. You'll be hard-pressed to find any on tax avoidance, political favours, corruption or criminal bankers. That's the fundamental...

You were implicity endorsing the Tory stance, but now you're categorising them as cunts. That's problem one: know where you stand. Secondly - there would be little to no benefit cheating if the country (and capitalism) was run with fairness and honesty. It's tiresome, stupid, and blind to give...

Hook, line, and sinker. Amazing how effective this propaganda is. Channel 5, the network which ran this programme, is owned by one of Richard Desmond's companies - Northern & Shell. That company has ducked millions upon millions in tax. But hey, let's broadcast a show about a few unsavoury...