Adams new Pompey Boss (now goneburger)

Adams new Pompey Boss (now goneburger)

I would have thought they would gone for Allardyce, ok not flash but does well on a tight budget, (which if you believe the press Portsmouth are in a mess financially).

I see no reason why Mr Arsenal can't succeed at Pompey.

Henry will sign for them in January!

he was sh*t at Wycombe though?
 Up there with Carlton Palmer.

Yeah? And? Brian Clough was sh*t at Leeds. Bobby Robson was sh*t at Fulham. You gonna judge Adams on one previous job?

erm... yeah


It was politics that killed off Cloughie at Leeds, not his ability as a manager. He had good spells at other clubs before he joined Leeds.

Robson yeah I'll give you that.

ForteanTimes2008-10-31 10:04:34

Cloughie was the wrong fit at Leeds, but his tenure there was also undermined by the lack of results albeit in a very short space of time. Before that, he'd turned Hartlepool around and won the Championship with unfashionable Derby, as well as taking them to the European Cup semis.

He has bad luck. Out by the middle of feb. Also gives weird interviews.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7684754.stm



Heard about that Damned United Jam being  Made it to a film? I've not read the book yet.

for some reason since switching to firefox my links don't work.

edit: for putting the ? in the wrong place
ForteanTimes2008-11-02 18:53:07

pompey will tumble as quicly as a Donkey down a flight of stairs.

Adam's first managerial decision was to drop Defoe...

Genius stuff, he'd scored 6 from 9 this season...

Brilliant 'Donkey'

I like that and may use it in conversation. Not that I dislike donkeys far from it.

Well he's doing well so far...

TheJam2008-11-05 09:47:01

It's also really amazing how many of you have written him off at Pompey without giving him a fair go.

I haven't written him off, I think he could well make a decent fist of it and may put himself into the frame as Wenger's eventual successor.

I agree, i loved Hoddle as a player, in my eyes the best ever. But rubbish as a manager...

Adams looks to be heading the same way. No pedigree as a manager and some crazy decisions in his first few weeks (as i mentioned above dropping Defoe for his first game in charge)...

Pompey fans aren't over the moon about his role according to a podcast i was listening to...
Dougie Rydal2008-11-05 17:09:02

You seen this from Hoddle today on the beeb? Exactly what most people who have watched England over the last 20 years has been thinking. I always thought he was hard done by after his ludicrous and stupid comments on the disabled, which in my mind he paid for.

Setting this academy up goes a long way to change my opnion of him. Hopefully he can produce a future England Maradona?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7686844.stm

Donkey Adams...gooooonnneeee. Was always going to happen....

eeeh-awww, eeeh-awwww

Shame really, would have liked him to stick around a few more games cause lets be honest, Portsmouth were sinking and now they have time to get a new manager and turn things around.

Bottom the Weaver: Why do they run away? I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me.

Where are all the Arsenal fans now to point out the injustice of it all?

Tony Adams to Chelsea.

Um, it's not an injustice...

Some of you make me laugh. This image of the stereotypical Arsenal fan you lot build up about us is incredible.

It's ridiculous the lack of time he got, even less than Scolari. It's amazing to me that football is always touted as big business these days but some of the decisions made by boards are decidedly amateur. He's had just over a quarter of a season, with bugger-all to spend and had to sell Diarra and Defoe. Again, I say ridiculous.

That's only if you call 8 wins in a row dog's bollocks.

Each to their own I guess.

Although they're certainly not the cream of the crop in Spain...

You'd not be the first NZer to get that wrong, EG....pommie slang really is the muts nuts.

I disagree with the outrage over Adams' dismissal - from a Board perspective it is less about the short time in tenure and more about the short time towards the end of the season. The spiral of decline Portsmouth entered from the moment he tried to fill 'Arry's boots was extra-ordinary.

Chelsea is another story...that is just based on misplaced arrogance and wealth.

Couldn't agree more HH, it's all to do with the steep downward slide towards relegation and the numbers of games left. Ultimately he won 4 from 22, and they are staring relegaton in the face, they had to do something...

Almost all of them 1-0 wins, that wouldn't be enough for Abramovich, it's all about 'sexy' football


Dougie Rydal2009-02-18 13:01:53