John Street West Terrace
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Fucking shocking manager ! Worst side i saw wearing a Utd shirt and that includes Martin Peters team .... other than that I think he's great
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Whilst I think Heath was a poor manager, particularly tactically, he did have previous managerial experience. He was manager at Burnley towards the end of 1995-6 and all of 1996-7.
Heath didn't get the job because of his name. He got the job because he knew Mike McDonald and would do as he was told.
I agree with your wider point. Rookie managers are a bad idea as a rule.
Permanent United managers with no previous managerial experience:
Joe Mercer
Martin Peters
Billy McEwan
Nigel Spackman
Steve Bruce
Gary Speed
David Weir
Mercer eventually got the hang of it after a bad start at United. Bruce gets mixed reviews but knows what he's doing. The others...not so good.
Spackman did well until the team was sold from under him.
A stand out memory for me was releasing Tri Dellas saying "I've seen how many games he played last season and I don't think he'll be missed".
Dellas went on to play for Roma and was a key player as Greece won the European Championship in 2004.
Wouldn't really call him a cunt though, just out of his depth like Weir.
That said, I did finally get to see Maxime Chanot
As 'Inchy' is boss of my soon to be team, what are people's thoughts on him as a United manager? I remember him being shit, but I also remember the club being a total mess at the time as well.
Minnesota United are bottom of the league, and haven't scored in almost 5 hours.
Totally agree. He was an overweight useless wanker!.
Minnesota United are bottom of the league, and haven't scored in almost 5 hours.
So golden that it took him 7 years to gain promotion.My only memory of him is his last game in charge. Lost 3-1 (or was it 3-0) at home to Port Vale in front of 9,000 crowd. Real low point for club. At least he had decency to resign. Warnock took over and that was the start of a golden era.
I cant remember a worse manager in my time being a Blade... And then i found not 1 but 2 in the darkest depths of my mind that I tried to block access too..................
David Weir & Alehouse Adams.
That Port Vale game was the pits! if I remember, a young Anthony Gardner scored their third.... time flies!!
I remember that we were given tickets to the "players lounge" after the game, my old man took me in there and not a single blade turned up, all the vale players came in though. As we were walking down the stairs to leave, someone was interviewing Heath for the radio on the stairway just as he'd resigned, me and pops were jumping around on the stairs! I was 11 at the time.
(I think this was on the same night..)As we walked up the car park, Kammy, a then rookie sky sports pundit was interviewing people for sky and he was talking to my dad, when someone shouted "eyup kammy, what have you ever fucking done" to which he replied "more than you, you wanker" needless to say my dad's interview never made it to sky sports!
Ah Port Vale. What a terrible game, only saved by the news he'd gone on the way home.That Port Vale game was the pits! if I remember, a young Anthony Gardner scored their third.... time flies!!
I remember that we were given tickets to the "players lounge" after the game, my old man took me in there and not a single blade turned up, all the vale players came in though. As we were walking down the stairs to leave, someone was interviewing Heath for the radio on the stairway just as he'd resigned, me and pops were jumping around on the stairs! I was 11 at the time.
(I think this was on the same night..)As we walked up the car park, Kammy, a then rookie sky sports pundit was interviewing people for sky and he was talking to my dad, when someone shouted "eyup kammy, what have you ever fucking done" to which he replied "more than you, you wanker" needless to say my dad's interview never made it to sky sports!
Thoughts on Adrian Heath? Just the one, he's a Cunt.
Sorry I'm a bit on the fence![]()
My recollection was that he was a decent bloke who was woefully inadequate as a football manager. Couldn’t motivate the team and generally didn’t have a clue what he was doing. More suited to being a coach than being the main man.
When I hear that name I always think of Kozluk's crosses into row zz v Port Vale.
Everyone remembers that cross. It was the only time in history that we reached pig levels of attendance
I'm sure there were only about 7k there?
As a manager Adrian Heath is up there with Kermit the frog
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