Well he was tonight, as a guest of one of the Directors. I was also a guest in the DB tonight with my two lads.
Curbs seemed very relaxed and looked well. On the way out my host said to him: You're one of the few happy faces here - He replied = Well I haven't got to wake up worrying in the morning!
I'm sure he will wonder how it has all gone so wrong though!
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oh but oh why did we turn on him.... we for sure will never ever boo again if we ever get back to that status...
the shine may come off but man ...
Alan Curbishley... loved him
what he built has been destroyed so quickly
still wasn't exciting enough for some....
Totally agree, but that won't bother many fans, especially those that are already saying they are looking forward to exciting times in the 3rd Division...
yep 47 points and 1/4 finals of the fa cup was another waste of a season
bet there are a few bankers out there that wish they had it
give it a rest eh
No he didn't he was sacked by Murray, nicely and in a gentlemanly way, but he was shown the door.
The one unanswered question for me is whether or not Murray offered Curbs the £24 million war chest spunked by Dowie and Pardew between them leaving Parkinson in the position of rearranging the Titanic deckchairs.
Not sure about that DFT sure it was more the crap that was brought in after he left
Have to agree
* Curbs left us with a pretty shit squad.
* at least 2 players have said in the press he lost the dressing room and was idealing in his last year
* Ewell,young,Conch,Baby Bent, Deano all fell out with Curbs
however what if he had the money Dowie was given ? thats the multi million pound question ?
and maybe if he had told Parker and The Board "we aint selling Parker till the end of the season or im off" and called their bluff we may have made Europe -----------god how far from that are we now !!!
As for legend yes of course he is the best modern day manager of CAFC.
but what LL did with NO MONEY at all and no home ground has to be up there and he won atOld Trafford !
What's done is done and we can't go back so no point in continually harping on about how great he was.
I was shocked when he left, and I would give my right arm for him to come back, but I think you are possibly the most ardent Curbs lover I have ever met!
He has even changed his name to Mervyn Day by deedpoll just to be his 'assistant'
We are Goin Down say we are Goin Down. . .
He worked miracles to earn that respect, as Murray was quick to point out on many occasions..
Seven years in the Premier, with no threat of relegation has more to do with it, than hindsight...
And he turned down his "first love" only a few years before joining them...
Said something along the lines, that there was going to be exciting times ahead at the Valley...
Unfortunately for us, he eventually understood, that with the financial resources available to him , he had taken us as far as possible…
That as the say IS the THE question.
'Maybe Murray thought Curbs 'Had Taken us as far as he could and the Dowie PowePoint
impressed him so much he mortgaged the club to the hilt to back him.
There would never have been a £24 million war chest, Dowie was given the following seasons budget, and lot's of expensive assets were sold in Pardew's tenure, which gave him a transfer budget..
I would say, Curbs had taken the club as far as was possible.
“As far as he could“, makes it sound like he could have done better... I don’t believe that for one second, and I’m sure that's how Murray saw it.
Curbs was never likely to achieve more with us, not with the resources available to him. Comparing our resources against nearly all the other clubs we were competing with at the time, I believe he worked bl00dy miracles, and I for one, am never going to forget it…
not really a comparison,but in all those seasons man utd's average position was a lowly 9th.(that position wasn't good enough for some us can you believe?) arsenal and liverpool in their 12 games against us scored 17 each.we managed to score 2 in total against liverpool and never beat them or arsenal,home or away.
I remember one of Lennie's seasons in the top flight, we were stranded at the bottom with about a dozen games left, but many of our games were against the bottom 10.
In those dozen or so games, we garnered enough points to get us off the bottom and into the old 'relegation playoffs' at the time. Against the odds, we survived.
We beat Chelsea home & away two seasons running, had a good track record against Arsenal and Liverpool. It was only Man U that we had a really bad record against and strangely West Ham beat them in his first two matches against them. Work that out...