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Too young to do the 90s, but I could make a cracking 00s side. Phil Brown even managed to select it for a good chunk of the 2005/06 season.

Too young to do the 90s, but I could make a cracking 00s side. Phil Brown even managed to select it for a good chunk of the 2005/06 season.

Too young to do the 90s, but I could make a cracking 00s side. Phil Brown even managed to select it for a good chunk of the 2005/06 season.

Too young to do the 90s, but I could make a cracking 00s side. Phil Brown even managed to select it for a good chunk of the 2005/06 season.

Doesn't everything in the first part of your post back this up? The fans were as quick to decide he wasn't right for us as the players. I don't blame Pearson at all for applying for a job, getting it and tackling it with the skills and knowledge he possesses but from our point of view it was a totally nuts appointment.
@cannable really hit the nail on the head when he said that Mel Morris didn't understand football and this appointments lurched from one type of coach to another almost by the month. But not understanding football is no excuse anyway. Takes about 10 minutes of googling "what makes a club successful" and a further half an hour of reading to learn that it's generally a good idea to keep a sense of consistency when appointing coaches in football, if you can be sufficiently arsed to do it.

Colin Gibson shouldn’t have mentioned anything to do with Pearson’s appointment because it’s slightly detracted from his broader point.
In one season we had a counter-attacking 4-4-2 manager whose main attribute was building teams, a front foot 4-3-3 manager whose main attribute was coaching and a defensive 4-2-3-1 manager whose main attribute was organising teams - ALL given complete freedom to do as they wished with the squad.
Mel just didn’t get football.

I too give people chat for wearing the same item of clothing twice. 
 

He’d have left us again.

F1 raced in South Africa through virtually the entire apartheid era, then almost immediately stopped racing there when it ended. 
F1 is escapism turned up to the max, but too often the people running it also appear to be escaping from any moral responsibility. 

F1 raced in South Africa through virtually the entire apartheid era, then almost immediately stopped racing there when it ended. 
F1 is escapism turned up to the max, but too often the people running it also appear to be escaping from any moral responsibility. 

F1 raced in South Africa through virtually the entire apartheid era, then almost immediately stopped racing there when it ended. 
F1 is escapism turned up to the max, but too often the people running it also appear to be escaping from any moral responsibility. 

Balotelli was born in the wrong era. When players were less fit, the game was slower and the pitches were terrible, raw natural talent got you a lot further and the game would have masked his shortcomings. Similar story with Taraabt - offered nowhere near enough of the ball to become an elite player.

Generational shift. Did you not have youth subcultures your parents didn't understand? And wasn't that part of the appeal? 

Masi out, Wittich and Freitas in. Freitas was my suggestion before - incredibly faultless race director of the WEC, including Le Mans. Can’t recall him ever making a mistake - and that’s easier to do in a 24 hour race across an 8 mile circuit with 65 cars than it is a single GP.
New Ferrari looks incredible, and also very different to the other cars - which means it will go like hell or be the slowest car on the grid…

Had to go and have a look at the car and it does look impressive but not a patch on the team's principal barnet!
 

 

Masi out, Wittich and Freitas in. Freitas was my suggestion before - incredibly faultless race director of the WEC, including Le Mans. Can’t recall him ever making a mistake - and that’s easier to do in a 24 hour race across an 8 mile circuit with 65 cars than it is a single GP.
New Ferrari looks incredible, and also very different to the other cars - which means it will go like hell or be the slowest car on the grid…

Masi out, Wittich and Freitas in. Freitas was my suggestion before - incredibly faultless race director of the WEC, including Le Mans. Can’t recall him ever making a mistake - and that’s easier to do in a 24 hour race across an 8 mile circuit with 65 cars than it is a single GP.
New Ferrari looks incredible, and also very different to the other cars - which means it will go like hell or be the slowest car on the grid…

Weirdest thing about Marriott is there is a) an incredible amount of vitriol about the fact his career fizzled out and the general view that he was overrated and that b) an incredible amount of vitriol towards Lampard for not starting him in the playoff final, and that contributed to the final outcome.
How can he be both not good enough, and the most important player in the biggest match in recent history?

Never wanted Rooney anywhere near our club...the last time I was so categorically wrong was when I bought a beta-max video recorder because I was sure that it would eventually see off the inferior VHS format.

Yeah, really ridiculous that and makes us look really small time. Forest give us so much material we can rip them for without having to stoop to that.

Yeah, really ridiculous that and makes us look really small time. Forest give us so much material we can rip them for without having to stoop to that.

Yeah, really ridiculous that and makes us look really small time. Forest give us so much material we can rip them for without having to stoop to that.

I think today’s selection was a miscalculation - made sense against a back 3, but Cooper is too astute to play the wrong formation for long.
How Samba was on the pitch at the end of the match is a mystery - should’ve been subbed OR sent off, take you pick. Can’t believe we got rattled by a concussed mummy.
 
Injury time was a joke, the ball was barely in play. I’d want us to do the same but I’d expect the referee to be on our case more than he was on Forest.
We move on. We have much bigger issues to deal with, and a win today wouldn’t have changed that.

Yeah, really ridiculous that and makes us look really small time. Forest give us so much material we can rip them for without having to stoop to that.