The post you replied to was aimed at ccfc - he was the one who said we were out of form and had limped over the line when, in reality, we strolled to the title. I think virtually any side would lose momentum after winning twelve out of thirteen home matches. To have maintained the momentum you talk about, we would have had to end up with a home record of something like won 21, lost 2, when has anyone had a record like that in the modern day Championship? The important thing in our "fall from grace" towards the end of the season was that we only lost one in twelve at the end of the season and there was only one defeat among those last ten home games you mention - we had got ourselves into a position where draws were hardly disasters.

We were defensive and set piece reliant most of the time in the Premier League under Mackay, but was that always out of choice? It was at times, but in other matches things just worked out like that because we were playing at a level where every side we played (if you go by how the league table ended up) was better than us. The truth for me though was that we were better than a few sides while Mackay was in charge (the league table at the time of his sacking told us that) - we went out and attacked Fulham at Craven Cottage and the game should really have been over at half time, we were cagey in the first half against the jacks and West Brom at home, but looked to win the game in the second half and we picked an attacking line up when we went to Norwich.

People talk about Mackay being "found out" by the time he was sacked and maybe that would have been proved to be the case if he had stayed with us for all of that season, but the facts are we were a lot higher up the table when he left than we were at the end of the season and we had most of the struggling sides to play at home when Tan got rid of him - we had beaten the only two lower half teams we had played at home under Mackay.

As for where it all went wrong for Mackay, there were bad buys once we had got promoted, but I think the real damage to him was done after he left Cardiff. The release of those e-mails definitely hurt him in many ways and I would suggest that this included in terms of his self belief and how he was perceived by at least some of the Wigan players he had charge of. I think most people's work performance would suffer if they had a former employer holding a grudge against them who was prepared to pay a lot of money to dig into what were private e-mail conversations, someone who was prepared to make public accusations of financial impropriety against them which may be true, but have not been tested in a court or tribunal despite it now being nearly four years since they were first made and someone who would release damaging information against them at a time when they were about to be appointed in a high level position.

I'm not saying that Malky Mackay isn't guilty of what Vincent Tan has accused him of and I for one view him differently after the details of those e-mails became public knowledge, but I think anyone's work performance and public credibility would suffer given what he's been through since he left us.