Major mistakes of MCFC?

[NorwegianTruBlue]

Sacking Sven for Hughes. Imagine what the horny sweed could have done with money?

 

[stefranceuk]

Sacking Moonbeam

I hadn't noticed this! When did this happen?

I think its been a season or 2.

I think she had been poking Fred The Red on Facebook

 

[mcmanus]

what a fucking odd subject,very strange indeed

Why? We were a premier club of this country from the early 1900s right through to the mid 1970s. We had a stadium built for 90000 in the 1920s; we were so popular in the 1930s we were invited to play a German league XI before the days of European football; we won a European trophy before Liverpool did...Then twenty-five years later or derby games were against Bury and Macclesfield and Stockport were lauding it over us saying they were Manchester's second club as they were in a division above us. We became an absolute joke of a football club. Mistakes were clearly made and it's something I find interesting to read about as it's a part of our history, not something I'm embarrassed about, but rather something I find made us a better set of fans (unfortunately that seems to be creeping away with us being a top club again).

looking back it was fun though.

Always been told...."If you can't laugh at yourself don't laugh at others". The comically bad managerial decisions are epic in scale and are part of why our recent success is even sweeter.

There isn't a Nited fan younger than say 40 who knows how to accept defeat.

..... buying Alan Kernaghan.

 

[Walkbustaxi]

This has to be said, 10 years to get wifi installed at the new ground. Scandalous.

For me it's up there with the old Kippax PA and the shite rolling scoreboard at the back of the North Stand.

Can't believe some of the stuff we've had to put up with over the years.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Most serious, but as yet not quite widely known, was allowing Shinawatra to take our club to the absolute brink of financial disaster.

Most recently - Starting talks to replace Mancini when the season wasn't half over. And, oh dear (how stupid can it get), turning the speculation to full on rampant by holding a special board meeting on the actual day of the FA cup Final.

Re the first of those two points, June 2008 was probably the closest we've ever come to going out of business. The administrators were in and ready to take over. In hindsight John Wardle dropped a huge clanger selling to Shinawatra in the first place but somehow that era just contributed to our rich historical tapestry.

On the second, the board decision to sack him was taken before the Old Trafford derby. Any board meeting around the time of final was more to do with how to respond to the leak of the news that we were talking to Pellegrini.

 

[Bozzie]

The obvious historic one is replacing Joe with Malcolm Alison but for me the biggest failure of the clubs owners was to get so many managerial appointments so disasteriously wrong. If you are the chairman of a football club you have one big decision to make and that's appoint the right manager. I can see that it's not easy but how many chances did we have to get it right? And, with one or two exceptions (most notably Howard Kendal) we got it wrong every time. Frank Clarke, John Benson, Alan Ball, Steve Coppall the names just keep on coming and it's just un-believable to me that someone thought that any of these guys was "the one".

 

[Skip Donoghue]

Allowing the Rags to take Bryan Riggs of us on his 14th birthday, no one having the gumption or where with all to actually go round his mothers house and get him signed, after having him training with us etc ....that has to be up there

 

[TGR]

Failing to strengthen the team after winning the title. If we'd got just 2 or 3 top class players like van Persie, Hazard or Bale last summer we'd probably have just done the double this season.

Didn't Mancini say something similar? Look what happened to him!

-- Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:05 am --

This has to be said, 10 years to get wifi installed at the new ground. Scandalous.

For me it's up there with the old Kippax PA and the shite rolling scoreboard at the back of the North Stand.

Can't believe some of the stuff we've had to put up with over the years.

Bloody hell! If not having wifi at our stadium is one of the biggest mistakes the club has ever made then I don't know where you have been for the last 40 years?<br /><br />-- Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:06 am --<br /><br />

Allowing the Rags to take Bryan Riggs of us on his 14th birthday, no one having the gumption or where with all to actually go round his mothers house and get him signed, after having him training with us etc ....that has to be up there

His brother Ryan was a better player though! ;-)

 

[Ducado]

Appointing two executives to bring beautiful football to City in the erroneous belief that they and not Messi are responsible for Barca's success

Allowing said executives to undermine, plot against and finally butcher the manager who brought to us the success and special days that most of us had waited our whole lives for

Doing the above in such a haphazard ill prepared manner that it scuppered our chances of winning the FA Cup

Well as revisionist history goes thats quite good, does not mean it is right

 

[pee dubya]

Getting rid of Musampa