Who's a clever boy then? Where do you think you're going, Gullit?!

Plain Totals
	Keegan	Dalglish	Gullit	Robson
Won after going behind (+3)	6	4	5	4
Won after being pegged back (+2)	4	4	3	6
Drawn after going behind (+1)	7	8	5	9
Led from first goal	33	22	10	25
Nil nil desperandum	1	8	3	4
Trailed from first goal	11	20	14	20
Lost after equalising (-1)	3	3	0	4
Drawn after having led (-2)	5	6	5	7
Lost after being in front (-3)	5	3	6	4
Total Games	75	78	51	83
Total Points Gained	33	28	26	33
Total Points Lost	28	24	28	30
Difference	5	4	-2	3
Proportional Comparison
	Keegan	Dalglish	Gullit	Robson
Won after going behind (+3)	8%	5%	10%	5%
Won after being pegged back (+2)	5%	5%	6%	7%
Drawn after going behind (+1)	9%	10%	10%	11%
Led from first goal	44%	28%	20%	30%
Nil nil desperandum	1%	10%	6%	5%
Trailed from first goal	15%	26%	27%	24%
Lost after equalising (-1)	4%	4%	0%	5%
Drawn after having led (-2)	7%	8%	10%	8%
Lost after being in front (-3)	7%	4%	12%	5%
Total Games	100%	100%	100%	100%
Total Points Gained	44.00	35.90	50.98	39.76
Total Points Lost	37.33	30.77	54.90	36.14
Score	6.67	5.13	-3.92	3.61

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2001

Answers

As you can see Gullit was also the Comeback Kid and the Cockup King at the same time. Easily the most volatile of our managers in terms of changing fortunes within games, but perhaps if we could teach Bobby to turn as high a proportion of games around the atmosphere might improve somewhat.

No surprises with Kenny being Lord of Boredom, or "manager most able to instill a bit of discipline on the team" - depending on your perspective - when allied with the fact that he actually dropped very few of the points he somehow managed to gain. Gaining them was his problem thanks to the keeness on 0-0.

Keegan was bound to feature well in this section: something about having the players there to do the job, no? Bobby comes in a poor third at present, but it's when this stuff is broken down by season that it gets scary. Robson's current season does him no favours whilst Gullit benefits from ditching those 5 games from last season and Kenny really suffers without those 1996-97 games to boost his full season's poorness.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2001

Great anaylsis (Thanks Bill G, you b@st@rd). But what this doesn't recognise is the squad each manager inheritted. KK had a magic squad, which KD took over at (almost) it's prime. He methodically dismantled it han a bit of tweaking would have sufficed and handed over a load of dross to RG. This is not to excuse RG. He was (perhaps) a good coach, but a sh!t man-manager. YBR inheritted a cr@p squad (well, at least cr@p morale) and turned it round. But can he continue and build on that?

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2001

That's the next phase, Screacher, the season-by-season analysis showing the proportional difference in results.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2001