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Wigan Sack Malky MacKay
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Just heard on the radio that Malkys just been sacked !
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Can't help but have a little chuckle.
I don't get it??? Did I miss a story?
Whelan broke his leg in the cup final and mentions it every chance he gets.
Malky was a poor choice to begin with. A bad PR hiring, which caused Wigan huge damage and their reputation will need to be rebuilt.
Or rather he revealed himself to have archaic views that appear racist in today's society and completely unacceptable.
I don't really have much sympathy for MacKay.
Says it all really.
Thought that for Owen Coyle but it wasn't to be. 3 managers since Martinez left now, Coyle, Rosler & now Mackay gone. Can't say any of them did anything near a decent job their mind!
Instead he decided to go for Coyle,recently sacked at Bolton for poor results and no contract to pay up.
If Whelan hadn't took the cheaper option first off he might not be in the pickle he's in now with Wigan flirting with League 1.
Similarly, Manchester United had just won the league,Fergie retired and then we hired the ball boy.
So,did none of the top managers want to come or were United also going for the cheaper option?
A proper boing boing club.
United were going for a Ferguson clone forgetting that Moyes didn't have the managerial experience behind him in terms of winning titles/Champions League (bar one forage into the qualifying round). Plus Ferguson took over a club in trouble; Moyes took over a side which had just won the title - different pressures entirely. I can see why they did it but the logic was very flawed. I hope Moyes can rebuild his career at Real Sociedad now.
As for Wigan - I have the feeling it's too little too late.
I don't have a problem with Moyes now he has left Utd although there were quite a few rumours that he wasn't that popular with folk within the club and I'm not referring to the players either.
What I do have a problem is some of the sniping about how he wasn't given enough time. It wasn't nice seeing him get sacked but when it happened there was a relief that it was the right thing to do.
He was completely out of his depth and the Utd job isn't something you can just grow into similarly as with other big clubs. Christ knows what they were thinking but it seems to me that there is some blame shifting with no one taking responsibility for such a monumental cock up.
Is Mackay still under investigation from the FA...?
Yes, I don't think that was resolved
if youre not one of the big teams, i think premier league time is limited anyway.
what wigan can hope for is that they do a soithampton who back in the 90s scrapped every year, but eventually went down but then came back up.
or they could do a coventry
as an everton fan it was sad seeing him fail, i dont think his time at man u done his health that good, every week he looked greyer and pastier.
...have to agree..whelan's a nice guy with wigan's interests at heart but employing a homophobic racist was always gonna end in tears...
I don't think that detracts from the fact he was a good manager. If you look at his performance at Cardiff compared to what came afterwards you have to say he did a good job. After 136 days at the club you cannot really judge him on Wigan it is not enough time to change what ever the problem is.
This to me the puzzle with Wigan they on paper at least have a squad that should be pushing the play off at least. I suspect moral is the biggest factor. Going down the division you often see clubs go down again as they fail to adjust to live in that division. The good news is that often you see the opposite happen when clubs get a back to back promotion.
I expect a clear out of the stars maybe a focus on the youth players a bit more but I hope they can bounce back. They are a good club aside recent events with Malky and Dave people should not judge them on that alone they have been a decent side in the premiership for a while.