Astonishing

Nigel Adkins sacked at Southampton.This must be the zenith of all amazing sackings-two successive promotions and picking up some good results in the premier in what was always going to be a tough season.This could backfire on then,frankly i hope it does,not a good day for justice IMHO.

and another bit of the love I have for football slips away. What an arrogant and nonsensical decision. I might make a list:

1. People basing all modern day records as if football was invented in 1992
2. Owners/Chairmen thinking they have a God given right to be higher up the leagues than their performances, squad and "history" deserve
3. Anyone who mentions the words "project" about a football club
4. The phrase "matchday experience" - Happiness is based upon the simple concept of winning, drawing or losing. I far more enjoyed Wimbledon away last season than Arsenal away in the Cup.

ther'll be more but I'll top myself.

Hard to believe. 5 unbeaten in the league, just drew with Chelsea and have climbed out of the relegation zone after a bad start. It's not as if they were doing so badly this season....

I guess this is what happens when you have wealthy owners who want to change their managers on a whim. Look at the merry-go-round of managers you get at Chelsea, and the farcical situation at Blackburn.

I'm sure Adkins won't be short of offers for his services, but its still a kick in the teeth for him.

His odds went from 6/1 last night to 7/4 this morning, so it was obviously known.

I notice its gone down well on the Saints forums:

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I hope they get relegated just as I now hate Blackburn Rovers for daring to think that 8th in the Premiership is a poor performance.

7-4 to get relegated.

Tenner returns £27.50.

The new bloke, Mauro Pochettino seems to have an average record in Spain 33% win record at Espanyol from 150 games. He was sacked by Espanyol in November after 2 wins in their 13 games (better than Fletch ) left them bottom of la liga. Does he speak English?

did fletch speak english?

Mapperley, darling wrote:

did fletch speak english?

He spoke Aviva ! THe only language allowed at HP these days Geddon............

Chemical Ali wrote:

The new bloke, Mauro Pochettino seems to have an average record in Spain 33% win record at Espanyol from 150 games. He was sacked by Espanyol in November after 2 wins in their 13 games (better than Fletch ) left them bottom of la liga. Does he speak English?

not a word according to the bbc.

Its a silly thing for southampton to sack a manager who was doing a good job. Its not like he had any other objective beyond staying up and he was on course to succeed with it.

Not so astonishing when you have a rich Italian count owning your club who is clueless about football.

Hoof Hearted wrote:

Not so astonishing when you have a rich Italian count owning your club who is clueless about football.

Spell check Hoofy, spell check....you've added a "O"

Pokesdown wrote:

Hoof Hearted wrote:

Not so astonishing when you have a rich Italian count owning your club who is clueless about football.

Spell check Hoofy, spell check....you've added a "O"

No swear filter on here then Pokers ? If I'd known that I would happily have left out the offending "o"

cnut

yes there is a filter

Jim Beglin

Not on every offensive word there isn't....

Newell can we add that to the filter

Greenskin wrote:

Nigel Adkins sacked at Southampton.This must be the zenith of all amazing sackings-two successive promotions and picking up some good results in the premier in what was always going to be a tough season.This could backfire on then,frankly i hope it does,not a good day for justice IMHO.

Another crazy decision, and more reason why football at the top level becomes more and more of a laughing stock.

2 promotions, with a chance of surviving in the PL in their first season back and he gets the boot. We had to wait until we were 91st in the football league.

Happy Daze wrote:

Newell can we add that to the filter

Has a filter of sufficient size ever been built that would hold the Porkstain ?

Something strange going on here, City and Gargs hang on to shiite managers as if their very lives depend on it yet The Scummers send a top top manager up the road to bring in some dirty cheating Argie bastard would couldn't order a meal in an English anywhere but Maccy Ds where he could point at the pictures.

The responses of the Scummers says it all, madness, the guy was shiite at Espanyol culminating in them making an atrocious start to this season under him, they have improved since he left, bit of a clue there for any one who wanted to look.

Le Tiss on Talk Blocks sounding gutted and encouraging the Scummers to show their support for Nige.

ihave to say i am also routing for Southampton to go down now, Adkins is a brilliant manager, who lifted the whole club when he arrived, then gets shat on, im sure southampton fans are in shock tonight

Adkins had the highest win ratio of any manager in Southamptons history.

I really hope they go down.

Perhaps he'd been doing a "Pardew"

Charlie Wood wrote:

Perhaps he'd been doing a "Pardew"

banging a players wife/girlfriend?