Roy's View From... View From West Brom

[Hamburg Blade]

Couldn't bear to listen beyond 2 minutes. What was that he said/mumbled - did he say if we'd took Billy off a few seconds before he scored they'd have been in it? How fucking desperate is that?

It was a bit odd. The thing that struck me was the way he kept talking about how he had done what he could to help the squad, "we've done all we can do to improve the squad", that he'd told the board what players needed to be brought in, that his "expertise" was to identify players that aren't good enough, stuff like that. "no disrespect to the players" - er, yes, you've basically just said they're crap.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

They have a far, far better historical record than either us or Massive. Probably better than both of us to be honest, having won every domestic honour, spent 2/3 of their entire history in the top flight and only ever been lower than the 2nd Division for two seasons.

But it just proves there's no such thing as an "established" PL club beyond the top 6 (or is it 7). Recognising that is the first step towards progress.

Just had a look on their wiki page and on the face of it they're pretty similar to us, one League title each, runners up twice each, we've got four FA Cup wins to their five.

However, yeah look a little deeper they perhaps have a better record but I wouldn't say far, far better record than us. They've been to 10 FA Cup finals (us 6), won the League Cup once when it was over two legs, plus finalists two other times. Been promoted to the top division 9 times (3 as champs) to our 8 (1 as champs) and PO winners in the third tier to our three promotions at that level 1st, 2nd and 3rd, plus we've won the fourth. They have had campaigns in Europe which obviously we haven't yet! Although we were conned out of the Fairs Cup in 1962.

Yes they have a better historical record than I'd imagined. I always have them, Leicester and us as similar understated clubs, i think the difference is West Brom and Leicester have generally punched their weight or above over the last 50 years (my lifetime), whereas us in the same time have generally punched well below our weight (I blame this mostly at the door of previous unambitious boards and chairmen at the Lane).

 

[Greenwich Blade]

You need a license for a drone in the UK if it's over 25kg. On and on, he's a fucking Ariston. He's so certain they should have picked up 4 points from the last two games, and why does he keep calling our goals "scruffy"? They are things of beauty that I have enjoyed watching over & over & over & over.

 

[corner_flag]

Good grief, what a terrible interview. It sounds like he's given up, resigned to relegation and thinks his squad are too crap for the PL. Now that is what I would describe as a "wage thief".

Anyone on here still think we should have sacked Wilder to bring this clown in?

 

[The Crab]

Enjoyed that. My favourite was

"Wilder was giving directions, reinforcing stuff they had done in training
Allardyce was yelling & losing his rag.
Know which one I’d rather play for.”"

Fat Sam does remind me of some of the worst people I've had to work for.

He lucked into the biggest job there is, the England managers job, then blew it by being the Big I Am and having one of the shortest reigns on record.

I'm sure when he eventually gets found out, he'll enjoy his money. But no money in the world can change history.

 

[The Crab]

You need a license for a drone in the UK if it's over 25kg. On and on, he's a fucking Ariston. He's so certain they should have picked up 4 points from the last two games, and why does he keep calling our goals "scruffy"? They are things of beauty that I have enjoyed watching over & over & over & over.

Doesn't matter whether they were "scruffy" or not. We scored one more than they did.

Fat Sam is definitely a more experienced football man than I am. But I'm pretty sure that the only stat that really matters is the final score. Unless I've fell into some sort of alternative reality where you get bonus goals for artistic impression *

*Big Sam being praised for artistic impression being up there with me being Sheffield's most eligible batchelor..............