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Sheffield Wednesday boss Gary Megson reacted to a 2-1 defeat at Bury this week by laying into his senior players:
"The guys who are mincing around on really good money have to start shaping up," he fumed, after successive League One defeats.
Here's our round-up of ten of the best (or worst) put-downs from managers and chairmen from down the years...
Harry Redknapp, while manager of West Ham United, had this to say off his striker Iain Dowie: "By the look of him he must have headed a lot of balls."
FREDDY SHEPHERD, the former Newcastle chairman, on his new £15m signing: "Alan Shearer, he’s boring isn’t he? We call him Mary Poppins."
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI makes it clear what he thinks about Paolo Di Canio when asked if he plans to select him for Italy's 2002 World Cup squad: "Only if there's an outbreak of bubonic plague."
DAVE JONES offers a blunt assessment of Carlton Palmer's technique, a player signed for Southampton: "He covers every blade of grass, but that's only because his first touch is crap."
RUUD GULLIT blasts Alan Shearer, after getting the boot from Newcastle: "It was plain he didn't want to play for me. I told him to his face he was the most overrated player I have ever seen."
Former Newcastle boss GRAEME SOUNESS fires a parting shot at departing striker Craig Bellamy: "The chap that's just gone, in his time in senior football, he has averaged 9.3 goals per season, and half of those goals he scored were not in the top flight. Now that's not good enough for a striker at a club like this."
JOHN TOSHACK sums up Robbie Savage's decision to withdraw his services from the national side: "Robbie Savage quit Wales after being told he was dropped!"
During his time at Newcastle, JOE KINNEAR infuriated winger Charles N'Zogbia by calling him "insomnia." He subsequently demanded a move away from the club…
QPR manager Neil Warnock summed up Clint Hill's defending last season: "When have you seen Clint Hill mess about like that? He thought he was Jose Enrique or someone."
JOSE MOURINHO offers his thoughts on controversial Man City forward Mario Balotelli, who he managed at Inter: "Players of that age were men 20 years ago. Today finding an exception is a miracle."
Finally, we'll leave the last word to the late Brian Clough, who said this of Sir Trevor Brooking in his playing days with England and West Ham: "He floats like a butterfly and stings like one."
"The guys who are mincing around on really good money have to start shaping up," he fumed, after successive League One defeats.
Here's our round-up of ten of the best (or worst) put-downs from managers and chairmen from down the years...
Harry Redknapp, while manager of West Ham United, had this to say off his striker Iain Dowie: "By the look of him he must have headed a lot of balls."
FREDDY SHEPHERD, the former Newcastle chairman, on his new £15m signing: "Alan Shearer, he’s boring isn’t he? We call him Mary Poppins."
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI makes it clear what he thinks about Paolo Di Canio when asked if he plans to select him for Italy's 2002 World Cup squad: "Only if there's an outbreak of bubonic plague."
DAVE JONES offers a blunt assessment of Carlton Palmer's technique, a player signed for Southampton: "He covers every blade of grass, but that's only because his first touch is crap."
RUUD GULLIT blasts Alan Shearer, after getting the boot from Newcastle: "It was plain he didn't want to play for me. I told him to his face he was the most overrated player I have ever seen."
Former Newcastle boss GRAEME SOUNESS fires a parting shot at departing striker Craig Bellamy: "The chap that's just gone, in his time in senior football, he has averaged 9.3 goals per season, and half of those goals he scored were not in the top flight. Now that's not good enough for a striker at a club like this."
JOHN TOSHACK sums up Robbie Savage's decision to withdraw his services from the national side: "Robbie Savage quit Wales after being told he was dropped!"
During his time at Newcastle, JOE KINNEAR infuriated winger Charles N'Zogbia by calling him "insomnia." He subsequently demanded a move away from the club…
QPR manager Neil Warnock summed up Clint Hill's defending last season: "When have you seen Clint Hill mess about like that? He thought he was Jose Enrique or someone."
JOSE MOURINHO offers his thoughts on controversial Man City forward Mario Balotelli, who he managed at Inter: "Players of that age were men 20 years ago. Today finding an exception is a miracle."
Finally, we'll leave the last word to the late Brian Clough, who said this of Sir Trevor Brooking in his playing days with England and West Ham: "He floats like a butterfly and stings like one."