Believe it or not Curbishley has only ever managed Fulham and Spam.
But yes he was shit at both.
Win %’s:
Charlton 38.1
Spam 39.4
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Believe it or not Curbishley has only ever managed Fulham and Spam.
But yes he was shit at both.
Win %’s:
Charlton 38.1
Spam 39.4
That's quite good for west ham ,isn't it?
Crap manager but Spurs legend.
All jokes aside, yes, I suppose it is.
These people keep getting work because they have extensive CVs stretching back decades and with the average managerial job now being well under eighteen months (I think it may actually be under a year across the top four divisions) boards are likely to plump for experience rather than trying anything new, even if that experience is consistently fucking up. Although even Pardew can say he's managed a club in an FA Cup final. Probably unpopular to say on here, and he did give us some good times, but I class Harry Redknapp in this category too. He has an extensive list of ruined clubs behind him.
Allardyce does always seem to steady whichever sinking ship he's captain of that season, but it's notable that he is widely loathed by the fanbase at the same time. At every single club. Him being booted out of the England job so quickly was one of the only good decisions the FA has ever made. His salty, salty tears about the injustice of being fired in that Impossible Job documentary that aired during the World Cup was glorious. I bet the guy reckons England would have won the tournament if he'd been in charge, n'all.
I think Neil Warnock is one of the biggest cunts in football but he did get Cardiff (a club I hate - due to the shirt colour change thing, I've gone into it before) promoted at a canter at least. But I so hope they're headed straight down. Think this is one wish that may come true.
It's interesting how Marco Silva, who was being touted as the new huge force in management, is now teetering dangerously close to becoming one of these journeymen. So early on in his career n'all. If Everton doesn't work out for him he's in trouble.
Allardyce does always seem to steady whichever sinking ship he's captain of that season, but it's notable that he is widely loathed by the fanbase at the same time. At every single club. Him being booted out of the England job so quickly was one of the only good decisions the FA has ever made. His salty, salty tears about the injustice of being fired in that Impossible Job documentary that aired during the World Cup was glorious. I bet the guy reckons England would have won the tournament if he'd been in charge, n'all.
I think Neil Warnock is one of the biggest cunts in football but he did get Cardiff (a club I hate - due to the shirt colour change thing, I've gone into it before) promoted at a canter at least. But I so hope they're headed straight down. Think this is one wish that may come true.
It's interesting how Marco Silva, who was being touted as the new huge force in management, is now teetering dangerously close to becoming one of these journeymen. So early on in his career n'all. If Everton doesn't work out for him he's in trouble.
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Charlton?
It's a bit old now (2011), but for an insight into what a basket case club QPR are have a look at The Four Year Plan. It's on Netflix and is one of the finest football documentaries I've ever seen.
Wow, he struck me as the typical merry-go-round manager, but I never bothered to check the facts (could be a football journalist)
What's amazing about Curbishley is that he was at Charlton for an entire decade. It's like Moyes at Everton. Just one of those incredibly long managerial posts that totally flew under the radar (unless you were paying attention, I guess).
Got Charlton promoted twice.
Yes, yes. I read that on Wikipedia. It’s just that in my drunken early evening holiday existence I managed to imagine Fulham was Charlton for some reason.
Some (who were equally inebriated on local canned lager) would consider it a reasonable error. Both insignificant London clubs after all.
Simon Jordan is no fan of Steven McLaren or QPR -
“I don’t dislike McClaren, but I think he’s a busted flush of a manager… if he ever was a flush.
“I feel that QPR putting him in charge of the club, at a time where they were in a difficult situation of their own making, illustrates the fundamental lack of understanding these owners have about the mechanics of football. When you look at QPR’s position, they have a Financial Fair sanction of £42million, which also prevents them signing any players this season. The scale of the financial mismanagement of QPR is staggering.
They have had Flavio Briatore, Bernie Ecclestone, Lakshmi Mittal and Tony Fernandes sitting in the board room, who have presided over the meltdown of a football club."
And, they have now brought in a manager who is presiding over the demise of a team – you don’t just get beat 7-1 by chance, you get beat 7-1 because you’re in poor fettle from top to bottom and you don’t then compound that by getting beat 3-0 at home by a very poor Bristol City side.
I don’t want to be over sensationalistic, but you look at some of the management appointments they have made and the transfers that have gone on…
I look at Harry Redknapp in the transfer window of 2013 – I would know more than to let Harry Redknapp preside over my transfer dealings autonomously than I would let a syphilitic nutter run around my brothel if I was a brothel keeper.
The owners have spent £80m, albeit of their own money, but the consequences of this are that the club can’t sign any players this season.
I’m staggered to think this could be allowed to happen on the watch of people who purport to have the best interest of the club in mind.
And then to bring in a manager like McClaren, whose work at forest and Newcastle was nothing short of a joke.
I know he did well at FC Twente, I know back in the day he did well as a coach and I know he thinks he’s the best coach god ever put breath into.
But QPR is a club that deserves far more than it’s got, it doesn’t deserve group of very well-heeled and financially viable people to put it in such a situation where the future of the cub and the division it plays in is in real jeopardy, even three games into the season.
I think Tony Fernandes should have spent less time Tweeting and more time running his business, , maybe then QPR would not be suffering in the way they are – and they are suffering and they will continue to suffer. I don’t think they’ve got any opportunity to change it.
And I don’t believe McClaren is the right man to do it.
They should have stuck with Neil Warnock in 2014 (sic – 2012) – he’s sensible and he understands the mechanics of how football really works, rather of these ridiculous appointments like Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, who were style of substance.
The QPR fans deserve better than people who have the prolificacy to spend their own money in abandon but leave the club in the condition it is in now.”
‘Steve McClaren is a busted flush - the mismanagement of QPR is staggering’
Bloody hell don't hold back!!
"I would know more than to let Harry Redknapp preside over my transfer dealings autonomously than I would let a syphilitic nutter run around my brothel if I was a brothel keeper."
Gold!
Good point, well made.WestHam...? "ALL jokes aside"? ....How's that work then...?
My point was the stats don't always tell the whole story.
Agree with alot of that, disagree re Silva. I think he's very good. He's also a complete bastard who'll only be interested in doing a decent job for you as long as he doesnt think there's a better one around the corner. I think he'll do a good job for Everton until a better opportunity comes along. Maybe he'll do a couple of years there. The Chavs job comes up every season or so. Goons may well have Dick for a couple of seasons. Manure may dispense with the Special One. Not saying Silva will get one of those, but imo that's how he's thinking.
Simon Jordan's the most interesting pundit on Talkshite by a country mile. He's opinionated, and he's also run a club, so has alot of credibility.Simon Jordan is no fan of Steven McLaren or QPR -
“I don’t dislike McClaren, but I think he’s a busted flush of a manager… if he ever was a flush.
“I feel that QPR putting him in charge of the club, at a time where they were in a difficult situation of their own making, illustrates the fundamental lack of understanding these owners have about the mechanics of football. When you look at QPR’s position, they have a Financial Fair sanction of £42million, which also prevents them signing any players this season. The scale of the financial mismanagement of QPR is staggering.
They have had Flavio Briatore, Bernie Ecclestone, Lakshmi Mittal and Tony Fernandes sitting in the board room, who have presided over the meltdown of a football club."
And, they have now brought in a manager who is presiding over the demise of a team – you don’t just get beat 7-1 by chance, you get beat 7-1 because you’re in poor fettle from top to bottom and you don’t then compound that by getting beat 3-0 at home by a very poor Bristol City side.
I don’t want to be over sensationalistic, but you look at some of the management appointments they have made and the transfers that have gone on…
I look at Harry Redknapp in the transfer window of 2013 – I would know more than to let Harry Redknapp preside over my transfer dealings autonomously than I would let a syphilitic nutter run around my brothel if I was a brothel keeper.
The owners have spent £80m, albeit of their own money, but the consequences of this are that the club can’t sign any players this season.
I’m staggered to think this could be allowed to happen on the watch of people who purport to have the best interest of the club in mind.
And then to bring in a manager like McClaren, whose work at forest and Newcastle was nothing short of a joke.
I know he did well at FC Twente, I know back in the day he did well as a coach and I know he thinks he’s the best coach god ever put breath into.
But QPR is a club that deserves far more than it’s got, it doesn’t deserve group of very well-heeled and financially viable people to put it in such a situation where the future of the cub and the division it plays in is in real jeopardy, even three games into the season.
I think Tony Fernandes should have spent less time Tweeting and more time running his business, , maybe then QPR would not be suffering in the way they are – and they are suffering and they will continue to suffer. I don’t think they’ve got any opportunity to change it.
And I don’t believe McClaren is the right man to do it.
They should have stuck with Neil Warnock in 2014 (sic – 2012) – he’s sensible and he understands the mechanics of how football really works, rather of these ridiculous appointments like Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, who were style of substance.
The QPR fans deserve better than people who have the prolificacy to spend their own money in abandon but leave the club in the condition it is in now.”
‘Steve McClaren is a busted flush - the mismanagement of QPR is staggering’
Bloody hell don't hold back!!
The worst has got to be Dean Saunders. Really annoying voice too.
I suspect that HE wouldn’t have been stupid enough to accept if they offered. Not yet.
Phil Brown. Another failure, yet seems to have now managed nearly every lower league club. Great tan though.
Nigel Adkins, had a good run at Southampton, the rest of his career is littered with failure.
Nigel Adkins, had a good run at Southampton, the rest of his career is littered with failure.