I said before that the only thing that had me keeping Ange here was the lack of a decent alternative, and I said that it was so depressing that we had a manager I was keeping for reasons that were nothing to do with the actual manager themselves.
The other thing that bothers me with the way some of his supporters talk, and when I say supporters, I don’t mean those who are just generally “give him time”, I mean the ones who have joined forums to support solely him, have never watched the league and are only here because the Aussie media has made him out to be a footballing genius and they follow him where ever he goes. With those supporters I hate the idea of him being sacked, and then having to listen to the rhetoric of him being sacked before he won any cups and the whole “HE aLwaYs WinS SecOnD SeaSon” thing.
I can visualise it now, if he loses to United, then we end up truly buggering up the EL, he gets sacked, but at the time he does we’re still in the FA cup, all we’ll ever hear is that he would have won it, and the reasoning will be because he always wins something in the second season.
Not because he ever looked like winning it, not because we were playing like we could win it, not because we ever came close, but just because he’s won crap pots in crap leagues and he and these followers talk about it as if it’s incredible. I don’t think Ange is going to win anything here, even if he had a headstart and a favourable draw.
You don’t win anything with playground football. Yet I now feel like just giving him the cups, and suffering the 12th placed finish just so there can be no excuses. What’s worse about that is I want us to win every game, and I genuinely think that pretty much any manager with even the slightest bit of top level nous and experience would have us finish the season stronger than this. Yet I just can’t be doing with seeing this bloke on my screen giving it “well I always win something mate but they didn’t give me time to… but I would have mate”.
Let him go and be a winner again claiming titles in Kazakhstan, the Himalayan super league, and Nepal or something.