Burley sacked after just two games

[once_bitterne]

Redknapp yes but Branfoot no. He was a crap manager agreed but a decent man out of his depth. Burley was a decent man but personal issues with the booze (you'll have to take my word for it) meant he lost the plot a bit and the players knew it. Recipe for disaster. Neither man was as duplicitous as Redknapp though.

 

Wasn't your friend the landlord woken up by him drunkenly hammering on the pub door to be let in at 3am one night?

[Fitzhugh Fella]

Wasn't your friend the landlord woken up by him drunkenly hammering on the pub door to be let in at 3am one night?

 

Yep but it wasn't quite that late

[CB Fry]

Burley had the benefit of the Saints go Wilde euphoria in his full season. And pots and pots of cash. And six months "bedding in" before that season started. Everything, everything, everything that experts on here like to say a manager needs. Burley had it all. He blew it. We dribbled into the play offs when we should have strolled in.

 

Don't make out he was hard done by. He was one of the luckiest managers we've ever had.

 

This guy knew what he was talking about three and a half years ago.

[sadoldgit]

I might agree with you if the word "should" meant anything. You can say that we "should" have gone up both times as champions but we didn't. There are no guarantees in football. Chelsea "should" be finishing in the top 4 this season with all of their resources but we skirting the relegation zone for a while. Given last season you could say that Tottenham "should" be above Leicester this season. You can say we underperformed, but nothing is nailed on in any given season when it kicks off.

[JackFrost]

One of the more curious situations was Burley' love affair with Jermaine Wright. Played him every game.

 

A player who was playing for Lewes barely 2 years later

[CB Fry]

I might agree with you if the word "should" meant anything. You can say that we "should" have gone up both times as champions but we didn't. There are no guarantees in football. Chelsea "should" be finishing in the top 4 this season with all of their resources but we skirting the relegation zone for a while. Given last season you could say that Tottenham "should" be above Leicester this season. You can say we underperformed, but nothing is nailed on in any given season when it kicks off.

Don't really understand your point.

 

Chelsea should be in the top four, of course they should, they've massively underperformed for various reasons.

 

We should have been nailed on play offs that season and ideally challenging for automatic. That's what we should have done. We underperformed and scraped in.