Worst Managerial Decision Ever By a City Manager

[Vienna_70]

The well has truly been sucked dry with bad managerial decisions so i'll go for a time in our history when we were a completly fuckin joke club and swales decides to put Phil Neal ( Stan Laurel lookalike) in charge

Neal was only ever caretaker manager (between Coppell and Clark).

And Frannie was chairman at the time.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Apologies if it's been mentioned but Brian Horton putting a dead slow, right footed David Brightwell at left back against a 21 year old Ryan Giggs was up there with the best of them.

That was a bad, bad night.

 

[Ric]

Apologies if it's been mentioned but Brian Horton putting a dead slow, right footed David Brightwell at left back against a 21 year old Ryan Giggs was up there with the best of them.

That was a bad, bad night.

That was probably the worst night I've ever had as a City fan. It was Kanchelskis though who tore Brightwell a new one, not Giggs as I remember.

 

[Soulboy]

Apologies if it's been mentioned but Brian Horton putting a dead slow, right footed David Brightwell at left back against a 21 year old Ryan Giggs was up there with the best of them.

That was a bad, bad night.

That was probably the worst night I've ever had as a City fan. It was Kanchelskis though who tore Brightwell a new one, not Giggs as I remember.

Brightwell played at left back that night... Phelan had fallen out with the manager, so Brightwell got the call. He was actually left-footed... not that you could tell!

Even worse was Gerry Taggart, a left footed centre half, playing at right back, against Scott Sellars, as Blackburn Rovers thumped us 4-0.. on April 15th. 1989... so there was more than one disaster that day!

 

[Interstate 5]

So now the right footed Brightwell against Giggs has become the left footed Brightwell against Kanchelskis... is it still the same match we're talking about? :)

 

[Blucamp]

Was it kendal who brought megson in ! Doh!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

That was probably the worst night I've ever had as a City fan. It was Kanchelskis though who tore Brightwell a new one, not Giggs as I remember.

Brightwell played at left back that night... Phelan had fallen out with the manager, so Brightwell got the call. He was actually left-footed... not that you could tell!

Even worse was Gerry Taggart, a left footed centre half, playing at right back, against Scott Sellars, as Blackburn Rovers thumped us 4-0.. on April 15th. 1989... so there was more than one disaster that day!

Yep, youi're right on all counts. Brightwell was a clodhopping onepaced centre half.

That 4-0 at Blackburn was awful. I was in their seats too, watching our promotion bid looking shaky and hearing about the deaths.

Taggart was one of the worst players I've ever seen in a City shirt.

 

[Vienna_70]

So now the right footed Brightwell against Giggs has become the left footed Brightwell against Kanchelskis... is it still the same match we're talking about? :)

David Brightwell was left-footed and played against Kanchelskis in the aforementioned 0-5.<br /><br />-- Wed May 19, 2010 7:40 pm --<br /><br />

Was it kendal who brought megson in ! Doh!

Megson was already at City when Kendall arrived.

But HK brought him back into the side.

I actually thought GM did a decent job for us in those few months when we needed to shore up the defence and midfield.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

So now the right footed Brightwell against Giggs has become the left footed Brightwell against Kanchelskis... is it still the same match we're talking about? :)

David Brightwell was left-footed and played against Kanchelskis in the aforementioned 0-5.

-- Wed May 19, 2010 7:40 pm --

Was it kendal who brought megson in ! Doh!

Megson was already at City when Kendall arrived.

But HK brought him back into the side.

I actually thought GM did a decent job for us in those few months when we needed to shore up the defence and midfield.

The pain of that memory has blurred the facts but I still maintain it was one of the worst decisions I've ever seen. BRightwell couldn't run and Kanchelskis was one of the best and quickest in the league.

I still go a bit faint thinking about it. Nearly came to blows with a gobby red in the pub after who turned out to be my new girlfriend's uncle.

Bad night.

 

[ribbo]

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