Manager of the Year

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Been on the radio all morning, a great phone-in about Manager of the Year. Half were saying that Fergy is a shoe-in, due to running away with the league. The other half (and I think I agree)were saying that MOTY should go to the man who has over-achieved considering all the team's circumstances.

On that basis I would put forward:

Mr Burley - his team were favourites to go down, now they may yet end up in the Champs League

Mr O'Leary - could yet be Leeds' greatest momentin Europe, even if it all stops here they've been the best we've got. Domestically, since they got their team back from all the injuries they have shown league winning form. Remember - at Xmas we were all writing them off

Mr Brian Little - Hull were minutes from going out of business; he's worked a minor miracle

What about Mr Houllier - 3 finals, one of them a European, and solid league form too?

So, if you had a vote, who would it go to?

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

Answers

George Burley, for once some credit should go to one of the 'smaller' clubs.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

I think I'd go along with Burley too...

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

not sure it ever goes to anyone but the manager of the Champions, but it really should go to Burley

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

I think you're right Macbeth. I missed the start of the debate on the radio but I think that was the whole point of the phone-in - that the MOTY is always he who wins the league. Any reasonable manager could have taken Manure to the top this season.

Of course, Fergy takes the responsibility for getting them in this position, and deserves every accolade for doing so, APART from perhaps manager of the year. He has not done anything radically different, or brought in any outstanding new talent, and in fact IN HIS OWN WORDS has remarked on the relative disappointment of the season.

Having said all of that, he has achieved the only thing that matters for most of us, being champions. Hmmmmm....

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001


George Burley by a distance.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001


Has to Burley. He has taken his club forward. Fergie has taken his backwards.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

If Ipswich make the CL (please God), then GB gets my vote. Other than that, the Wizard is in with a shout. If that bug-eyed frog gets it I'll !!@**!@ scream.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

Geordie....do you often get lost....lol? Tell me, how is ADDING another pot to the cabinet and doing so by a feckin' country mile "taking a club backwards"? Over to you

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

So who wins the "Wadsworth" Award for having clean trainers and no idea?

Bryan Robson? Arsene Wenger (all that money to do worse)? Harry Redknapp? John "Angel" Gregory?

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001


Not Houllier: no one can get those sort of eyes without practising the black arts. I'd say old Burley followed by Alan Curbishley.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001


"I'm not da heroooo"



-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001


Guess who?

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

'appy 'arry moonlighting then, DeB?

My vote is for Burley, no question.

As for the Wadsworth award, not sure I can back any of the candidates put forth.....they're all too clean shaven and unrumpled. ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001


Definitely Burley.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001

Don't the voters have any sense of irony? What has Peter Reid done not to deserve such an award?

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001


Manager of the year Tigana ?

Wadsworth of the year Bryan Robson.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001


Burley has taken the play off winnners to a UEFA cup spot. 6 out of the last 8 play off winners have been relegated and considering the relatively small amount he has spent it is a magnificent achievement.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Did KK get MOTY during our 1st PL season?

It'll be Houlier, anyways. 3 finals and a damn impressive set of Euro performances.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001


On the Euro front, much as I hate to admit it but the performances of Leeds in the Champions League outshine anything Liverpool have come through in the Uefa.

Lazio, Milan, Roma, Real Madrid etc etc............

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001


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