MikeF
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JohnMaddocksAxe said:I see the devious bellend has been commenting on how "they made a change with a view to accelerating the club's progress. That doesn't seem to have happened."
I think it has, you self serving creep, given that the club had slumped from ninth when you took over to being a shambolic mess of a team going backwards in sixth when you left.
For all those that repeat the mantra of "Hughes was dignified and honest" on this thread and others, I've never come across a statement that I consider to be more false.
Brian Horton - he was dignified and honest.
Sven - he was dignified and honest
Even Keegan - he was honest and only lost his dignity when his desire forn success made him say silly things.
Hughes doesn't say silly things, he says calculated, back stabbing, self-serving things.
Ask the players that he approved extensive briefing against in the press whether he was honest and dignified.
Ask the club whether his constant bleating about how good he was and how he was doing a brilliant job when results said otherwise was dignified.
Ask the previous manager and his staff whether Hughes' constant claims that the club was the most unprofessional club in the world ever before he turned it round whether they think he was dignified and honest.
Ask all the staff who weren't part of the Taffia who he shat on, got rid of for any old bum who was his mate or family or generally found that he was unable to have a professional relationship with anyone who wasn't licking his arse whether he was honest or dignified.
Take the dozens of more successful and better managers who had to listen to his weekly proclaimations that he was the most professional manager in the world and that his staff were better than any other coaches in the world and that no other manager would have been able to come close to acheiving what he did at City and ask them whether they consider that dignified (if you can get them to stop laughing).
Ask anyone else who was on the receiving end of his constant quest to deflect any sort of blame away from himself and on to someone, anyone, else whether he was dignified.
Look at every word that ever leaves his mouth and see that it is always based around some sort of snide comment designed to boost his own credibility and run down the credibility of others and then judge whether he was dignified.
Hughes is the least dignified manager I can remember at City. At least Ball was a straight forward buffoon whose bullshit wasn't disguised.
The only way Mark Hughes can be considered honest and dignified is if you like wearing a nice suit and being a boring bastard, if you like being full of cliches and disguised self promotion when he was here and if you like, when sacked, carrying a massive wad of money that makes it in his interests to keep his mouth shut.
If you consider all that to be dignified, whilst not being able to see how much poison he spouts, just because he doesn't rant and rave like Joe Kinnear, then, yeah, he might be dignified.
If you consider dignity to be more than just acting out what you think dignity should look like whilst constantly spouting and actually doing just the opposite, then you'll know that Hughes' time here (and most of his career) has been marked by a complete lack of dignity.
He can feck off.
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