Surprised how short Durban's time as manager was because it seemed like decades at the time
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Managers I've known and some light hearted descriptions, feel free to amend :
Jimmy Scoular Glory Era 9 years, 159 days
Lew Clayton Forgetful Era 6 days
Frank O'Farrell Gone In 1 68 days Era 168 days
Jimmy Andrews Hopeful Era 4 years, 189 days
Richie Morgan Home Grown Lad Era 2 years, 120 days
Graham Williams Tepid Days Era 92 days
Len Ashurst Lost Trophy Era 984 2 years, 0 days
Jimmy Mullen Nearly Days Era 61 days
Jimmy Goodfellow Nice Fellow Era 206 days
Alan Durban Lasted That Long Era 1 year, 240 days
Jimmy Mullen Did it really happen Era 10 days
Frank Burrows Franks Wild Years Era 3 years, 62 days
Len Ashurst Thought He Left Era 1 year, 303 days
Eddie May Good Times Era 3 years, 123 days
Terry Yorath Welshness Era 120 days
Eddie May Best Not To Return Era 61 days
Kenny Hibbitt Moustache Era 276 days
Phil Neal Sad Scouse Era 182 days
Kenny Hibbitt Back Again Why Era ? 102 days
Russell Osman Film Star Era 1 year, 73 days
Kenny Hibbitt* Groundhog Day Era 24 days
Frank Burrows Don't Return Era 1 year, 350 days
Billy Ayre Who Is Billy Ayre Era 194 days
Bobby Gould Egotistic Man Era 323 days
Alan Cork Likeable Bald Man Era 229 days
Lennie Lawrence Cuddly Len Era 3 years, 96 days
Dave Jones Entertaining Era 6 years, 5 days
Malky Mackay Took Us Up At Last Era 2 years, 193 days
David Kerslake* Surely Not Him Era 6 days
Ole Gunnar Solskjær Flattered To Deceive Era 259 days
Danny Gabbidon Who Else To Ask Era 17 days
Scott Young Let My Mate Have A Go Era 17 days
Russell Slade Who ,Where From Era ???? 1 Year, 215 days
Paul Trollope Passing Back n Forth Era 139 days
Neil Warnock Hold Tight Era 13 days and counting
Surprised how short Durban's time as manager was because it seemed like decades at the time
In discussions with my friends the Durban years were particularly ones after Eddie May we seem t go into freefall with Kenny Hibbitt turning into a boomerang and folk moan about this current era Lol
Kenny Hibbitt Moustache Era 276 days
Phil Neal Sad Scouse Era 182 days
Kenny Hibbitt Back Again Why Era ? 102 days
Russell Osman Film Star Era 1 year, 73 days
Kenny Hibbitt* Groundhog Day Era 24 days
Very interesting, though given your usual standard of spelling I expected this thread to be "City managers and their ERRORS"
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Those are lengths of time that they were in charge, if you mean era's then for example,July 1978- March 1980 is one
No space needed between ironic and comma and views and comma and discussion and comma and " and a system; "with some tongue in cheek views" should be in brackets; tongue-in-cheek (note hyphens); full stop after discussion; era should therefore have a capital E; particular event should be followed by inverted commas and there are two concluding full stops. Use of 'ironic' and 'motivation' questionable and the source for the quotation should be given. Otherwise, the grammatical content of your posts is showing a significant improvement. Well done!
When you look at that list there is hardly one manager who left Cardiff to go on to bigger things. I see three categories in that list : three top managers on their way down (O'Farrell, Durban and Gould), managers who peaked with Cardiff (e.g. Scoular) and those whose managerial careers never really got going.