Anybody else get irritated by the football media continually getting it wrong about why Curbs left?
"The Totally Football Show" today is the latest to have a pundit claim that the club sacked Curbs because we were bored with the football or wanted to be more ambitious.
When, in fact, Curbs left because he didn't want to renew his contract.
We wanted him to stay! FFS.
I keep hearing this over and over again by lazy pundits, on TV and radio, when they go into their "be careful what you wish for" routine, when discussing a Premier League team that's in relegation trouble.
Annoying!
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Murray got rid of him a year before his Contract was due to expire because he didnt want to be signing players whilst telling them that their Manager wouldnt be around next year
From the way it sounded Curbs was always happy to see out that final year, it was Murray who didnt want to mess around because of the new TV deal coming in the next year
What is rubbish is it was the fans that ensured it happen
For sure, Curbs and his team would have loved to have had the budget made available to his successor. This was made clear a little later in a radio interview.
Who knows what might have been if Murray had released those funds to Curbs, would he have stayed, would our history have been different?
curbs reportedly was happy to stay on for another year. That was an opportunity to have someone work alongside him to find out how he kept the club in the Prem and in the top half on occasion.
Murray failed to see that and put the succession planning in place.
To compound the error seemingly in a fit of pique he appointed Dowie!
Ever since man was cremated
How anyone in their right mind thought Iain Dowie was the person to ‘take us to the next level’ though still amazes me.
Anyway this was more than 10 years ago lets move on!
Those fans that wanted him out were principally the Johnny come lately's who jumped on the premiership band wagon and disappeared after we went down. Most loyal supporters I know were fully supportative of him.
I do think things had gone stale but if Murray had given him the money instead of Dowie, things may have been different.
Murray offered Curbs a three year contract which he turned down.
In all honesty,we were always punching above our weight. BUT, this has nothing to do with Kinsella/Parker/Jenson era. I felt your Holland as a central midfielder trying to carry the likes of Ambrose/Hughes etc was never gonna get us anywhere near the Premiership stability.
I must admit I smile when 'shock jock' Durham churns out, "be careful what you wish for, look at Charlton".
Ive/will never buy into the over achieving Premiership side (Curbs at the end) set up to not concede". I'd rather concede/get thumped knowing Charlton had gone out & 'had a go', 'left it all on the pitch" than the dross that was served up from Curbs & his front man Day at the end of his/ their tenure.
I never wanted Curbs out because of not qualifying for Europe, just wasn't enjoying what he was serving up anymore.
Deluded as it seems nearly 14 years later these people existed and dominated the radio phone ins and internet. The likes of me who defended Curbs were invariably accosted by a tag team in a manner similar to the House REMAINERS ganging up on a stray LEAVER unwise enough to express an opinion on the Brexit thread before it got banished to the bowels of the earth for the benefit of those too young to remember or be involved in the debate at the time.
What would we give for boring Championship mediocrity now?
No I haven't forgiven him
As for Curbs. I said I thought he realised his ambitions went beyond where we could go. And whilst I think he was right, sadly for him, he never got that chance. He did a great job at West Ham, keeping them up, but taking them to a tribunal, even though he won it, killed off his chances of getting the sort of job he wanted and he wasn't willing to start low and build it up again like he had done with us.
He never did.
Gullit and George Graham both applied for the job.