Sven

Kinkybyname said:
from Dildo Hamman's book:

‘One morning I was on a sun lounger by the pool when I saw Sven walking towards me carrying a silver tray with a bottle of champagne and two glasses on it. It was still only ten o’clock in the morning…Sven came over and put the champagne on the table next to me, then placed one glass in front of me and the other by his lounger. I looked up and said, ‘Boss, what are we celebrating?’…He turned to me and smiled that gentle smile of his and took on the air of a Buddhist philosopher as he said, ‘Life, Kaiser.’ Then after pausing for dramatic effect, ‘We are celebrating…life.’

‘Life, Kaiser. We are celebrating life.’
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That should have been “we’re celebrating life ****!”
 
Everything about him as a coach for us and the way we played, was distinctly average to be quite honest. At times good, at times awful, most of the time bang in the middle of both.

Conceded more than we scored, won only 39% of our games and were closer to being relegated than getting into the Top4. We were too slow in the way we played and defensively our tactics were often poor.

Didn’t get anywhere of note in either cup competition and in the final 22 league games we won just 5. At least one of those was our first win at Old Trafford in my life.

But he made a few good signings who did well individually now and again and Ireland and Johnson were exciting prospects.

Despite those singings though, we weren’t really any better than the 2005-06 season under under Pearce. Where Fowler was a kick of the ball in the other corner away from getting us into Europe.
 
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Won the first away game and then no away wins until the next year.

Won all home game until around Xmas in the league, but got battered in some away games. When the home record went we slipped out of the top four and were bang average in 2008.
 
There was a feeling things were getting better and we were on the rise. Utd were poor in that first half of season if I remember correctly and we were above them up until Xmas (?) . We had some good players in Elano, Petrov etc. Big improvement over Pearce. A decent squad playing decent football. It went downhill but overall positive and sense some good times were finally on the horizon, no one would have dreamt how good
 
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Wish he had managed to outlast Shinawatra. Would have liked to see him get a try with better ownership.

But butterfly effect etc. Things worked out OK.
 
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