Blackwell and Adams were total and utter jokes, failures and zero entertainment.
I'm glad we've got a definition of hoof at last, none of which appear to be kicking the ball long, and three of which appear to have little to do with the football match.
Admittedly it wasn't very good at all under Adams but we were already doomed, (he did well at PV before and strangely is doing OK after, curious for a 'joke'..). However, and I know this will ranckle with you, despite everything you think about Blackwell (and I'm not passing any comment on whether he was or wasn't a complete arsehole) Blackwell was not a 'total and utter joke'. In terms of winning games and grinding out results, he holds one of the highest win percentages of any United manager, under him we had our longest run away from home unbeaten in a century. It might have been 4-5-1 and not attractive, but that was not failure. We lost after freezing at Wembley, but we had to get there in the first place. There were times when we played good football, the best of which was probably the first play-off leg at Preston where we passed the ball as well as anything I'd seen for a long time.
Sadly all of this is lost in the rewrites of the past, now you fallen deeply in love with Danny, but you need to remember that managers don't have to be nice people, warm and cudly, and give good interviews. Every manager has their own style and arseholes get success as much if not more than nice guys. More often than not the successful managers are nasty, driven people who would kick their own granny out of the way to achieve what they are tasked to. They are not widely liked but they don't have to be, just respected. They are employed to get results. Blackwell got results, up to the last yard admittedly, where he couldn't get us over the line and promoted. There is also the backdrop of most of our better players being sold and replaced with lesser cheaper players. The style of football might not have suited Quinn or others that can be named, but the club isn't just here to please them.
I conceed there were lots of negatives about the time that Blackwell spent here, (and KevMc should NOT have talked him out of resigning after the POF either...) his inability to get the best from Billy Sharp being the most glaring, but you are betraying history because of your narrow views of what does and doesn't now constitute 'good football'...
*Duncan retires to a safe distance and waits for the 'BANG!'...
