Quote Originally Posted by RonnieBird View Post
If it carries on like this I can see him retiring early. I love the man and what he's done, but I get the sense that today was a significant thing. Perhaps Watnockball no longer works or perhaps the players we've now got can't do it, but it's very hard indeed to see what can be done about this.

If it's bringing in a freaky foreign manager and buying Portuguese players with strange haircuts and even stranger temperaments I think I'll retire with the manager.
I liked the honest straightforward English game with a team which was greater than the sum of its parts, and that we could often run rings around teams of expensive pirouetting tossers. Mind you, I also liked it when men only married women and the side which got most votes won, so I'm probably as out of time as Sir Neil.
This sounds like me over the years - “why bring in these foreign managers when so many good British managers are still out of work”
Now I have changed my mind. The game has moved on while the Warnocks of this world still believe we are playing on pitches mud splattered from goalmouth to goalmouth.