Birmingham City Thread - 2023/24

Just shows how much smoke the media blows up Rooney's arse, Forgetting his personal life and lifestyle, In football terms and being a football manager sorry out of your depth, Anybody involved in the Fergie years at United as a player will never understand football or management, Simple reason is Fergie's United was handed everything on a plate because of the fear and power they held with the Premier League and match officials,

When you have to stand on your own 2 feet and become a football manager the safety net is not there and you have to earn the right to be a manager, Nobody should be given a safety net no matter what club you played for, Anybody involved with the Fergie years at United are never going to make good managers,

List your Ex utd players who have had good careers as a football manager,

1....
2....
3....
1. Gary Neville
2. Wayne Rooney
3. Ryan Giggs

Thats what the informed mainstream media tell me ever day.

So either you are a bitter blue or they are full of shit.

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He won't struggle with the Bush tuker trail.
The fat **** looks like he will eat anything
I used to work in Lincoln Square just off Deansgate and his favourite restaurant was Wings The Chinese place. He was in there regularly as it seemed the paparazzi were almost constantly camped out there waiting for him
 
Just shows how much smoke the media blows up Rooney's arse, Forgetting his personal life and lifestyle, In football terms and being a football manager sorry out of your depth, Anybody involved in the Fergie years at United as a player will never understand football or management, Simple reason is Fergie's United was handed everything on a plate because of the fear and power they held with the Premier League and match officials,

When you have to stand on your own 2 feet and become a football manager the safety net is not there and you have to earn the right to be a manager, Nobody should be given a safety net no matter what club you played for, Anybody involved with the Fergie years at United are never going to make good managers,

List your Ex utd players who have had good careers as a football manager,

1....
2....
3....
Agree with all that. I also think that United were so rigid tactically in the Ferguson era that the players under him learned very little. They played 442 virtually all the time with fast wingers lumping early balls into the box. Nothing wrong with that at the time but football has moved on in this country. When you listen to former United players talking on TV they seem to have no ideas about modern football (Rooney epitomises this). They are fixated on the 1990s...just like most of their fanbase. Long may it last.
 
Agree with all that. I also think that United were so rigid tactically in the Ferguson era that the players under him learned very little. They played 442 virtually all the time with fast wingers lumping early balls into the box. Nothing wrong with that at the time but football has moved on in this country. When you listen to former United players talking on TV they seem to have no ideas about modern football (Rooney epitomises this). They are fixated on the 1990s...just like most of their fanbase. Long may it last.
.... all while they go on about the music that was around at the time and then how simple life was.

However, long may this last indeed with their living on past glories. They played boring kick and rush and boring knocking the ball about. It was so basic and it still flabbergasts me today how nobody back then cottoned onto it.
 
Agree with all that. I also think that United were so rigid tactically in the Ferguson era that the players under him learned very little. They played 442 virtually all the time with fast wingers lumping early balls into the box. Nothing wrong with that at the time but football has moved on in this country. When you listen to former United players talking on TV they seem to have no ideas about modern football (Rooney epitomises this). They are fixated on the 1990s...just like most of their fanbase. Long may it last.

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

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