I`ve just watched West Brom on match of the day. I must say I was impressed by West Brom`s performance. It`s got me thinking about Roy`s time in charge of us.
I never wanted Roy anywhere near our club. The man still pisses me off when I think about his time in charge. The Torres incident at United when he didn`t defend him against whiskey noses accusation of diving. When there was talk of Rooney leaving United Roy said he couldn`t do anything if united came in for Torres. The constant downplaying of expectations. Describing a 1-0 away win at the almighty Bolton as a "Famous win". The fuckin ridiculous desicion to spend £9m on Poulson and PFK. The infamous face rub! etc
When Roy was at Fulham he did well and saved them from relegation in 07 and then the following season took them to 7th place (their highest ever league placing). In the 09-10 season he took them to the Uefa cup final. He then had a disastorus 6 months at our club. He has now gone to WBA and is unbeaten ( OK it`s only 6 games ), and they seem to be playing good football. There is no way to know if his good form at WBA will continue. Their current form could be down to a new manger coming in and the players giving their all to impress the new manager and save their own place in the club. It`s happened before at other clubs where thats happened and then it all goes tits up.
My question is this - Is Roy a good manager/coach and our players just didn`t perform for him? The king has come in and got a better reaction from virtually the same group of players.
By the way I have just cracked open my third bottle of red and I`m feeling slightly Schindlers and there`s a chance I might wake up in the morning and think "WTF was you talking about dickhead" . So if you are seriously annoyed with my question then go easy on me
