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Who is the worst ever Prem manager?
djfunnyman
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John Carver's regin at Newcastle has been a disaster, but is it the worst ever reign of a Premier League manager? I think its 2nd worst, Terry Connor at Wolves was the worst ever individual reign as they only picked up 2 points from 13 games
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Whatever happened to him?
as for steve kean what has happened to him, he hasnt even done any pundit work
Think Steve Kean manages in Asia somewhere. Around the same era as Gross Palace had Lombardo who was awful
Paul Jewell and Billy Davies were both dreadful in the infamous 07/08 Derby season
He wasn't helped by MON's squad all coming to a certain age at about the same time, but he didn't react. Relegated the following season with barely a whimper.
1 win and 11 points in 38 games.:o
peter taylor the guy who was meant to be the best english manager at the time.
they beat newcastle and it was televised if i remember
Steve Wigley was pretty clearly set up to fail at Southampton. Probably part of a gambit to let the chairman bring his mate Glenn Hoddle back, but it failed horribly and left them pretty much dead and buried before Christmas.
Howard Wilkinson's spell at Sunderland. Already one of the most horribly overrated managers of all time, and was brutally exposed as the footballing dinosaur he really was.
He then did a similar job at Wigan however Steve Bruce somehow managed to keep them up despite a disastrous start.
Paul Jewell doesn't deserve to be mentioned in this thread. He did brilliantly to keep us up in our first premier league season and then did even better with Wigan after he got them up. He did a terrible job at Derby but he did more than enough with Bradford City and Wigan to avoid being the worst premier league manager of all time.
Was going to mention Chris Hutchings but the poster above beat me to it! Lasted barely a few months in both managerial jobs he had.
Portsmouth went through a few who were awful - Tony Adams, Alain Perrin, Velimir Zajec, Paul Hart.
Like John Carver at Newcastle this season. As for Southampton, I would say that Paul Sturrock was awful but he was barely given a chance looking it up
What about Big Ron at Forest? Famously sat in the wrong dugout at his first game in charge against Arsenal
Houlliers Time at Villa was bad if I remember rightly Ginola & him did not get a long
Christian Gross at Spurs
That stems from the 1994 World Cup Qualifying match France vs Bulgaria, France needed a point to qualify, scores level then Bulgaria score a winner in injury time to go through to the World Cup & knock France out, Houllier blamed that goal on Ginola losing the ball in midfield which enabled Bulgaria to break forward & score the vital winner, Ginola has hated Houllier ever since. Incidentally i think that ended up being Ginola's last game in a France shirt
Ginola actually had the ball close to the corner flag very near the end, but rather than play out time he whipped it across goal to noone in particular other than a Bulgarian to set them off towards the winning goal.
It was pretty crazy by Ginola, but still very questionable behavior by Houlier.
Far worse than Gross.
It showed a positive attitude in trying to score a goal rather than being totally negative.
Nothing for the manager to lose his hair over.
Keeping possession in injury time isn't being totally negative when World Cup Qualification is on the line. Its completely the right thing to do.
That bizarre first press conference Gross had at Spurs when he showed his Tube ticket.:o
Exactly imagine an England player doing what Ginola did, he'd have to leave England just for his own safety.