Premiership Manager Poll

Roy Hodgson

i kind of love martin o'neill. he looks like the kind of guy who'd be hanging around a bookshop on a saturday afternoon reading about linux

it's between those two, isn't it

Zola

Owen Coyle or Roy Hodgson.

I can vouch for David Moyles being a good guy. A distant cousin of mine knew him when they were kids. He had to go to Liverpool with his son for a day last year and contacted Everton on the off-chance that he'd like to meet up after about thirty years, and Moyles took half-an-hour out his afternoon, invited them up to the training-ground and made sure they got a guided tour of the place.

What a ding dong doo.

Owen Coyle or Roy Hodgson.

― ailsa

How quickly they forget...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/football_martin_o0neill0s_celtic_career_in_pictures/img/3.jpg

(vote Hodgson :P )

Don't make me post a picture of Scott McDonald and a helicopter :-(

rafa obviously.

rafa or mick mccarthy.

or fergie.

fav > least fav.

arsène (duh.)
hodgson
zola
steven bruce
martin o'neill
ancelloti
owen coyle
harry redknapp
roberto martinez
moyes
rafa
sir alex
tony pulis
mick mccarthy
megson
paul hart
big sam allardyce
alex mcleish
mark hughes
phil 'dumbass' brown

i was gonna vote for Zola, because who doesn't like Zola? But then i realised that he kind of reminded me of the special kid at school, the one who just kept smiling at everything. Then he started to remind me of Ben Stiller. Then i voted for Ancelloti, cos he likes farming animals and then eating them

ok wow, zola/ben stiller is kinda blowing my mind.

Don't follow the Premiership closely enough to vote confidently, but I'd take an educated guess at either Moyes or O'Neill.

Did lol at Phil "Dumbass" Brown.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8506/wenger.gif

martin or arsene

martin or arsene, but i'd really like the option for my vote to register as -10 for benitez.

Never a frown with Phil Brown.

sir alex - amusingly mental
arsène - stubborn ideological twat
moyes - seems decent, good scary eyes
rafa - pissy little bitch
tony pulis - old-skool
mick mccarthy - shit player, shit manager
martin o'neill - I love MON
phil 'dumbass' brown - even more amusingly mental than Siralex
megson - bothered
owen coyle - meh
alex mcleish - Birmingham AND Rangers?
hodgson - witty, urbane, literary, bafflingly overlooked for all major jobs
mark hughes - coming into his own as a proper Premiership managerial menk
zola - Surely everyone loves Zola?
harry redknapp - he's given me too much comedy and too many good results to say a word against him right now
big sam allardyce - worse than Hitler
paul hart - I feel sorry for him
ancelloti - meh
steven bruce - seems decent
roberto martinez - bothered

It's a three way tie for me between MON, Hodgson and Zola. I can't decide. Moyes with an outside chance but nah.

genuinely in tears laughing at 'no tambourines'.

anyway, rafa cos i'm biased otherwise it would've been woy.

hodgson - witty, urbane, literary

i'm sure this is all true but saying so as such makes him sound like oscar wilde or something. the best thing about hodgson is the paternal british empire kinda pragmatism that comes with all that, the been around the world and ay ay ay but always just woy from cwoydon getting on with the bloody job.

great interview here: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/roy-hodgson-i-dont-believe-in-innovation-1677575.html

also here he is spraching a bit of deutsch with no fuss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqkF3O7qrUM#t=3m24s

(ffwd to 3:25 on there.)

anyways, after all that i voted mick mccarthy just to be different.

also tony pulis is not old-skool, he's just some leisure centre general manager type tosser. fuck him and his cap imo.

mcleish probably the worst though.

Can't believe I called Moyes 'Moyles' upthread. Worst is any manager who has worn a headset. I'd also throw in any manager who wears a manager's jacket, only I think that would rule them all out.

Allardyce and Brown are good value, the worst is Hughes speaking drivel from under his intense frown, full of the pretensions of command, and awkward to watch. Trying to think who I'd miss the most and perversely I think its Wenger, still miss Mourinho. Voted Bruce for being a superior product of the Ferguson school & not really knowing who else to pick.

In order...

martin o'neill
moyes
hodgson
zola
owen coyle
mark hughes
rafa
mick mccarthy
alex mcleish
harry redknapp
megson
phil 'dumbass' brown
big sam allardyce
steven bruce
sir alex
arsène

Have no opinion on these...
ancelotti
tony pulis
roberto martinez
paul hart

... struggling beyond the Top 5, tbh

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did anyone really dislike Hughes before recent shenans? always seemed like a good guy to me

He was a cunt at Blackburn who's team were possibly more horrible than the Walrus-era Bolton imo.

Blackburn... Bolton

I see a kicking Arsenal theme emerging.

nah, his blackburn were better than allardyce and souness eras, but he is definitely heading for being a cnt of the highest order now.

He was a cunt at Blackburn who's team were possibly more horrible than the Walrus-era Bolton imo.

Hi dere received footballing wisdom. Hughes's Blackburn weren't particularly thuggish and dirty in their latter days, he phased yer Andy Todds/Lucas Neills/Robbie Savages and they were quite a good attacking side in his last couple of seasons. It went from being 'Morgan Gamst Pedersen plus a load of brick shithouses' to a team that could actually play - Santa Cruz, McCarthy, Bentley when he was good etc.

is there a received footballing wisdom thread?

italian football is slow

English players don't dive

... and the ones that do only started after foreigners taught them how to

Received wisdom about football

it was a fairer game back when a leg break was a once-per-half occurrence.

Footballers' legs were made of sterner stuff in those days, not this modern rubbish that breaks at the drop of a hat

we didn't have any of this playstation nonsense bill, which explains why footballers were much better then.

arsène (duh.)

Voted Moyes.

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Steve Bruce was robbed. And damn, never knew how many Arsenal fans there are here.

thought there'd be one harry fan here but hey

I forgot to actually vote. +1 for Owen Coyle. Thought Hodgson would have romped this, or at least made it a better fight. Bet Arsene's comedy comments this week were a calculated effort for ILX votes, tbh.

For reference: It [the challenge on Van Persie] looks very bad. You ask 100 people, 99 will say it's very bad and the hundredth will be Mark Hughes. and "Of course I back him," the manager said. "In football, everybody is free to have an opinion. If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say: 'Thank you very much. Can I turn the other cheek?' Only Jesus Christ did that."

did not vote for arsene (not sure i voted at all tbh) but bahahahahaha.

sir alex - cunt
arsène - cunt
moyes - cunt
rafa - cunt
tony pulis - cunt
mick mccarthy - quasi irish cunt
martin o'neill - nordie cunt
phil 'dumbass' brown - cunt
megson - underrated cunt
owen coyle - who even knows cunt
alex mcleish - cunt
hodgson - national treascunt
mark hughes - we are building a proj-cunt
zola - good for a seasoncunt
harry redknapp - have some ketchup cunt
big sam allardyce - little old cunt
paul hart - finger in the dam (cunt)
ancelloti - looks like my dad (tho my dad is not a....cunt)
steven bruce - fergie fledgling cunt
roberto martinez - who is this "cunt"

good feelings about all the above.

rafa ahead of zola (albeit alphabetically) = fucked