The thread that asked for best sky blue X1 with manager prompted the question. Can there be another club anywhere in the world let alone here in the uk that has had managers with so many league appearances? I know we have had a lot of managers but when you total their league appearances wow!!
Yeah, I do. In fact, a lot of great managers played at a low level. For example I think Big Ron only ever played at non-league level and the obvious one Arsene Wenger who only made a handful of professional appearances.
We were strachans first job and he has done a lot better after us.
Coleman is the one that has annoyed me most. He had the squad of players capable of getting us back in the prem but he under achieved.
Strachan was never our worst manager, i'd go as far to say he was one of our better manager's in the 30 years i've been following the Sky Blues. He brought some fantastic players to the club, played an attractive style of football, Sky dubbed us the 'Entertainers', unfortunately those running the club had taken a punt to far and Strachan was unable to replace players with the quality of McAllister and Keane with the players of the same standard, Bellamy came in from Norwich after a lengthy injury spell and only started to play when Hartson arrived, unfortunately it was too late by then, Strachan had wanted to bring Hartson in a couple of month's earlier but the board wouldn't sanction the move due to insurance concerns, had Hartson signed earlier I firmly believe we would have beaten the drop. I also believe that had WGS not been sacked after a few games in the Championsip then he would have taken us back to the Premier League at the first attempt. My vote for worst City manager has to be Peter Reid, the bloke just didn't seem interested in the job.
We were strachans first job and he has done a lot better after us.
Coleman is the one that has annoyed me most. He had the squad of players capable of getting us back in the prem but he under achieved.
i cant see how he has, he got us relegated he got southampton relegated (albeit redknapp was in charge at the time strachan started the ball rolling) he nearly relegated middlesborough (only saved by mowbrey) only succeeded at celtic as you cant fail there.
I really want to dislike Strachan after he took us down, but I just find him absolutely hilarious, glad he is going to be back in press conferences again.