Birmingham City Thread - 2023/24 | Rooney sacked after 15 games

[ShorehamCitizen]

Thats why they struggled in Europe for a large part (1999 aside). It was only towards the end of his management, with more foreign managers like Benitez and Mourinho coming into the Premier League, who had a lot of success in European competition, that Ferguson followed their style of how to approach European knock out football, hence winning it again in 2008, and reaching two finals afterwards.

Barca putting 4 past them, Galatasaray knocking them out on away goals not even making it to the group stage, failing to get out of their group in 1994, going out to a Russian team now in non-league in 1995 at the entry stage and on top of that, not even qualifying for the big one that same year.

During that same time Blackburn went out of the UEFA Cup to Trelleborg over two legs and later won the league. They then had a W1 D1 L4 record in the big one.

The Premier League back then was kinda playing catch-up with the likes of Spain, Germany and Italy. Incredibly unthinkable now.

 

[ancoats]

Thats why they struggled in Europe for a large part (1999 aside). It was only towards the end of his management, with more foreign managers like Benitez and Mourinho coming into the Premier League, who had a lot of success in European competition, that Ferguson followed their style of how to approach European knock out football, hence winning it again in 2008, and reaching two finals afterwards.

Why they struggled in Europe was because they had the Premier League in their back pocket and got what they wanted every week, How many titles did they have to really work to win them, it was a closed shop and Fergie and United could count the points they needed to win the title when the fixtures come out in June.

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[Cellarite]

What was the Jimmy Savile chant that got under his skin?

 

[Zabbasbeard]

I'm glad for all sorts of reasons that Rooney has been sacked. I really want Wednesday to stay up, I've always preferred Brum to Villa, and I much rather Millwall, Middlesboring or Cardiff implode and go down than Brum.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I'm glad for all sorts of reasons that Rooney has been sacked. I really want Wednesday to stay up, I've always preferred Brum to Villa, and I much rather Millwall, Middlesboring or Cardiff implode and go down than Brum.

It also means he's gonna be favourite to replace Tent Peg.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

It also means he's gonna be favourite to replace Tent Peg.

We can but hope.

 

[NZBlue]

It also means he's gonna be favourite to replace Tent Peg.

I thought Tent Peg was favourite to replace wazza

 

[nmc]

He's come out with a statement saying he doesn't feel 13 weeks is long enough to change anything.

13 weeks is a short time, that's true. Taking a team from 6th to 20th in just 13 weeks is incredibly bad.

He should think about that flipside instead of feeling hard done by.

13 weeks was long enough to destroy Birmingham’s season.

 

[nmc]

Rooney can maybe resurrect the Wayne Rooney Foundation - anyone remember that? The vehicle created to support that joke of a friendly the FA organised to give Rooney a final cap…. The Foundation trousered the gate receipts and ceased to exist not long after - probably because fat boy couldn’t give a shit about his foundation or good causes.