Nigel Clough


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That Barnes on Radio Newcastle was bigging him up as an up and coming young manager, Sunderland connections etc.. He's 51 FFS, seems to have been around forever.
 
He failed for 3 year prior to coming to us. His downward spiral had already started

I just thought anyone who took over from fergie would fail and going to another country would always be a gamble. I was prepared to give him a chance. If we judge everyone on their failures then we would never have a manager good enough. Everyone has failed somewhere. The ones that haven't wouldnt give safc a second thought and rightly so.
 
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I just thought anyone who took over from fergie would fail and going to another country would always be a gamble. I was prepared to give him a chance. If we judge everyone on their failures then we would never have a manager good enough. Everyone has failed somewhere. The ones that haven't wouldnt give safc a second thought and rightly so.

Time for someone younger, hungrier to succeed and with a long term plan a bit like what Bournemouth did with Eddie Howe.
 
Personally, I thought that was the appointment we'd been looking for, for the best part of 20 years. I was wrong, but there were definitely people who thought he was the wrong person for the job and I scoffed at them thinking that they were utterly f***ing mental. How right they were, eh?

It looked like a good appointment, of course, on paper, the scary thing was how short the honeymoon period was... I was pleased when it was announced but not overjoyed.
 
If it wasn't for his dad, you likely wouldn't have a clue who he was. Possibly unfairly to say but he will have been given opportunities because of his father's managerial ability and everyone who has offered him a chance will have been hoping he'd replicate what his dad did. He's not a bad manager but he's a lower league manager. He has done nothing to earn the right to manage a club the size we are.

Have some pride mate. We're far bigger than Nigel Clough.

Wake up man.
He's in the same division as you !!!
 
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