Scariest Manager In The Championship

Big Sam, no question. Though I reckon Sven would be quite creepy prowling the taxi rank.

I've went and voted Dyche by mistake, fat fingers. I don't even know who he is.

http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/Sean-Dyche_415.jpg

Captained Chesterfield during their run to the FA Cup semis in 97.

The last two England managers are now both in the second tier. October 2012: Fabio is delighted to bring Carlton Cole to Derby County.

Though the correct is, of course, Nigel Pearson:

http://i.thisis.co.uk/275561/article/images/2350176/1641170-vlarge.jpg

Aw yeah, I remember him - smashed home a terrible, terrible penalty in the semi then celebrated madly in vein-popping style. It was the right vote after all.

Sorry, de Jong is the only Nigel who may feature in a terror poll.

Hold on, every England manager since Robson has descended to the second tier, is that right?

Dear God I'd forgotten El Tel's horrendous return to Palace.

love this poll and wish i were more qualified to answer

Mowbray'd be a vicious drunk imo

Ferguson undoubtedly "knows some blokes"

All the former centre backs are contenders, obv

http://i.imgur.com/8rzmW.jpg

only dangerous if you're a foxy lady

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2009/12/8/1260278782385/Keith-Hill-Rochdale-manag-001.jpg

Keith Hill auditioning for the Deliverance remake

http://www.chesterfield-fc.co.uk/javaImages/10/6d/0,,10435~3435792,00.jpg

can't decide if young dyche looks more or less of a nutter than old dyche...

would totally pay to watch pearson v mackay. but gentlemen, let's be honest. would you really bet against andy thorn?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/SPORT/Pix/pictures/2011/4/28/1303994299418/Andy-Thorn-007.jpg

but I'm voting for this

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_03/TonyMowbray_468x562.jpg
http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/dailyrecord3/jun2009/0/4/image-3-for-tony-mowbray-gallery-gallery-801116715.jpg
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01404/tony-mowbray_1404805c.jpg

Sam's a big lad, but he's out of shape.

god bless the internet

http://thesportboys.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/tony-mowbray.jpg?w=450&h=313

tbf this is the look of a dude who's carrying a Stanley

http://img.skysports.com/11/04/496x259/AndyThornCoventry_2580996.jpg

Just so we're clear, this is Thorn mid-90s:

http://shop.sportsworldcards.com/ekmps/shops/sportsworld/images/wimbledon-andy-thorn-238-merlin-ultimate-1996-football-trading-card-30784-p.jpg

nah, andy thorn will do you fair and square imo. nigel clough's totally the one with the stanley. and he will use it meticulously.

fuck a mowbray btw, it'll take a while to knock the iron jawed old bastard down but i think his serious threat-posing days are over.

http://static.givemefootball.com/gmf/files/5c/5c5060cf-7150-4f2a-918f-d7e4f06fd478.634172887680000000.jpg

I'm quite proud to say I remembered Keith Millen's name without any prompting. Doesn't happen often, that.

He doesn't really figure here though.

bet he'd still give mclaren a kicking tbf

Suspect Nigel Clough might have secret anger management issues.

yeah, it's the way he keeps a lid on it that makes him more unnerving though.

have you not heard about clough's whole line in publicly humiliating his players in interviews? cywka and moxey, and then pretty much the whole team (going through each one by name) after the forest defeat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/9319875.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/9388701.stm

I hadn't come across it before, but this is absolutely amazing:

"We'd like some players who - in the 89th minute - don't lose the ball 20 yards outside the box which leads to us conceding a goal, which Tomasz Cywka did," Clough said.

"He's an extremely inexperienced and not very bright footballer. He should have chested the ball and hooked it into the corner flag with five minutes to go.

"That's what experienced, good players do in that situation. And despite being told - and he has been with us 10 months - he is still doing things like that. He can go back to Wigan or wherever he came from - I'm not really bothered - until he learns the game.

"It is getting very, very frustrating when you are dealing with people who are doing things like that.

"It's not a physical thing [with Cywka] - it's a mental one but if players don't learn then you move onto the next one."

http://www.soarmagazine.co.uk/files/2010/04/pearson-title.jpg

the championship truly is another world, the chthonic hell where english people slowly kill each other in stadiums sponsored by logistic comparnies while a few sorry nultic apprentices bite their fingernails to the bone and scribble a few clipped lines about the savage rites

ya i miss it already

maybe it isn't like that though

and where is iain dowie doesn't he at least get some sort of honorary chilton hundreds ish honorary managership while he is between firings

/chiltern

tbf to the championship nigel person did sell wayne brown from leicester to preston for voting bnp that time

haha "nigel person"

the archetypal championship spectator

By way of comparison, League One features the following:

Lee Bradbury (Bournemouth)
Uwe Rosler (Brentford)
Richie Barker (Bury)
Greg Abbott (Carlisle)
Chris Powell (Charlton)
John Sheridan (Chesterfield)
John Ward (Colchester)
Paul Tisdale (Exeter)
Mick Wadsworth (Hartlepool)
Lee Clark (Huddersfield)
Russell Slade (Leyton Orient)
Some cunt (Some cunts)
Martin Allen (Notts County)
Paul Dickov (Oldham Athletic)
Phil Brown (Preston North End)
Steve Eyre (Rochdale)
Alan Knill (Scunthorpe)
Danny Wilson (Sheffield United)
Gary Megson (Sheffield Wednesday)
Graham Westley (Stevenage)
Les Parry (Tranmere)
Dean Smith (Walsall)
Gary Waddock (Wycombe)
Terry Skiverton (Yeovil)

On balance, would say Champ managers are harder. Albeit Clark, Rosler, Allen, Dickov and Knill are all a bit terrifying in their own special ways.

ive heard of eight of those

This said, we all know what happens when John Sheridan gets the wind up.

xp - I know literally nothing about Steve Eyre.

greg abbott wins that, if i'm not mistaken.

mad dog always seemed too tommy cooper to ever take seriously.

probably not terry skiverton.

is lee bradbury no longer known as former soldier lee bradbury now btw?

see i'll always put in a good word for the champo but god, just looking at that league one list.... impossibly grim

Paul Tisdale seems like a well-behaved young man.

dunno, suspect he's robbed a few branches of river island in his time

Weirdly, the League Two gaffers might be better known on the whole:

Terry Brown (AFC Wimbledon)
John Coleman (Accrington Stanley)
Dean Holdsworth (Aldershot)
Lawrie Sanchez (Barnet)
Peter Jackson (Bradford)
Paul Buckle (Bristol Rovers)
Paul Peschisolido (Burton Albion)
Mark Yates (Cheltenham Town)
Convicted Tax Cheat Steve Evans (Crawley Town)
Crewe Boss Dario Gradi (Crewe Alexandra)
John Still (Dagenham & Redbridge)
ANDY HESSENTHALER (GILLINGHAM)
Jamie Pitman (Hereford)
Gary Simpson (Macclesfield)
Jim Bentley (Morecambe)
Gary Johnson (Northampton)
Chris Wilder (Oxford)
Peter Reid (Plymouth)
Micky Adams (Port Vale)
Andy Scott (Rotherham)
Graham Turner (Shrewsbury)
Paul Sturrock (Southend)
Paolo di Canio (Swindon)
Martin Ling (Torquay)

Hessenthaler might actually be the scariest of the lot, thinking about it.

Albeit that di Canio is actually, y'know, a fascist.

just gis'd martin ling and sadly he is not an azn and may in fact be a wite person

Was listening to Bukem and I clicked the link to open that Cloughie interview, not realising it was an audio interview. Absolutely fucking fantastic remix I just invented.

noodles you are sure you're not @thebig_sam right

thinking 'atlantis' would be perfect though

"Watercolours" about a minute and a half in, I swear it synched up perfectly

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

think it probably is pearson on reflection

he alone has that army sergeant/police officer professional effective bastard vibe, everyone else is a bit more hit n miss

burn ilf to the ground if this gets less votes than "Guardian Football's top 50 summer transfer targets" btw

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

"I'm thrilled to have an effervescent wide player coming in," Hornets boss Sean Dyche told the club website.

lol

Who else voted for Grayson?

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55634000/jpg/_55634288_cloughbig.jpg

one day there is gonna be a fucking incredible sequel to The Damned Utd.

now you mention it there's some talk going round that forest are thinking about lil nige once schteve gets the boot

http://i.imgur.com/rmPQw.jpg

Karl Robinson says he is flattered to be linked to the Nottingham Forest vacancy but has a job to finish at MK Dons

Discussing the Chelsea manager, Allardyce wrote in his column for the London Evening Standard: "I wish him well in the best league in the world but I have to say that there's a young manager in England who I believe can be every bit as good as Andre - his name is Karl Robinson and he's in charge of MK Dons."

"Will Karl get his chance, though? Probably not."

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2k9 edish

Did we mention Sean Dyche's voice? He eats gravel. I'm sure of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sean_Dyche&oldid=458013907

'Stone Cold' Sean Dyche was a youth team player at Nottingham Forest in the late 1980s

New Watford boss Sean Dyche tells BBC Sport that being written off as relegation contenders is "fuel to galvanise what we're about"

not how galvanisation works iirc

nb i would not make smart like that within hearing distance of s dyche

"ho mister! you're a dyke mister! you like elton john mister! lol your name is dyke mister!"

dont like the look of this cunt at southampton, he seems unduly impressed with himself

he's only going by what he's heard tbf

nice of this bald prick interviewer to remind billy sharp abt his dead son

srsly

"I'm thrilled to have an effervescent wide player coming in," Hornets boss Sean Dyche told the club website.

― r|t|c, Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:06 (9 months ago) Bookmark

this phrase still pops into my head sometimes, at which point i lol

Did we mention Sean Dyche's voice? He eats gravel. I'm sure of it.

― William Bloody Swygart, Sunday, 30 October 2011 00:38 (5 months ago) Bookmark

SO TRUE BTW.

adkins will be a cultfig (and inevitable shark jumper) next season, brave new hybrid of ian holloway x management speak

i won't hear a word against adkins and i look fwd to you all being driven mad by his endless tiggerish psychobabble next season

http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Millwall-book-cover.jpg

I finished reading this the other week. Entertaining, got a few holes in it, but definitely gives you a fair bit more respect for Kenny Jackett.

(The author really does not like Southampton, though)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2013/jan/18/joy-of-six-nottingham-forest-derby

#6... no wonder nigel's borderline psychotic

"It's flattering to be linked with jobs but the reality is nobody has taken it any further than paper talk," Dyche says.

"I am happy with what we are trying to achieve here. It's a real challenge. It's earthy, it's raw."