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Who Needs Mourinho

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I don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as an appointment as people are making it out to be.

2 promotions from this division followed by ridiculous sackings at Scunny & Salford. His recent jobs haven’t been great but even the MK Dons binning was probably a bit premature.

From the outside looking in, Bradford need somebody solid but unspectacular who knows the league & he fits that bill.
The problem with Alexander is the football isn’t very exciting and when you add bad results to that it’s hard not to pull trigger on him.

Gary Neville said he regretted sacking him and that was because it wasn’t really the results that saw him go just the tedious watch week after week.

Every time I saw Bradford under Hughes they were negative and I’m worried they’ve gone down the same route.
 

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You'll need to explain that picture.
That’s Dave Challinor, he broke Martin Pringles leg over 20 years ago (career ender) and we still hate him for it.
 
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That’s Dave Challinor, he broke Martin Pringles leg over 20 years ago (career ender) and we still hate him for it.
Ah, same as us and Jason Koumas, who broke Steve Basham's.
 

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Tranmere players. Bunch of thugs.
Dave Challinor's challenge happened after he'd moved to Stockport. Remember seeing footage of it and it looked bad although Challinor was never a dirty player with Rovers and for a central defender had a decent disciplinary record.

Never seen the Jason Koumas incident, but that surprises me less. Don't think he'd deliberately go out to inflict serious injury, there are few players who would, but wild challenges were part of his make-up.

We could do with a few thugs now though.
 

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Dave Challinor's challenge happened after he'd moved to Stockport. Remember seeing footage of it and it looked bad although Challinor was never a dirty player with Rovers and for a central defender had a decent disciplinary record.

Never seen the Jason Koumas incident, but that surprises me less. Don't think he'd deliberately go out to inflict serious injury, there are few players who would, but wild challenges were part of his make-up.

We could do with a few thugs now though.

Yeah I can't think of many players who would purposefully set out to injure someone so badly but it can happen in a contact sport. Gary Bennett broke someone's leg in seven places and ended their career when he was with Chester, and he wasn't that sort of player.

All I really rember of Challinor at Tranmere was his big throw. As for Koumas, he was a top signing in Champ.
 

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I remember Kevin Gray breaking Gordon Watson's leg. Jumped off the floor, two footed, broke Watson's leg and got a yellow card. Prick.
 

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Yeah I can't think of many players who would purposefully set out to injure someone so badly but it can happen in a contact sport. Gary Bennett broke someone's leg in seven places and ended their career when he was with Chester, and he wasn't that sort of player.

All I really rember of Challinor at Tranmere was his big throw. As for Koumas, he was a top signing in Champ.
Gary Bennett really was that sort of player. Horrible.
 

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Ben Chapman, a proper thug playing for Grimsby, broke one of our youngsters legs in a pre-season friendly years ago.

It was the worst tackle I have ever seen, it was so bad it ended his career and he was awarded compensation for it.
 

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Yeah I can't think of many players who would purposefully set out to injure someone so badly.
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I remember Kevin Gray breaking Gordon Watson's leg. Jumped off the floor, two footed, broke Watson's leg and got a yellow card. Prick.

One of the worst fouls committed on one of our players I've seen in all the years I've been watching us.
 

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If I was Northern Irish, and a Linfield supporter I don't think I'd leave a comfortable job managing the club I support in Europe and winning trophies every year, to go to Grimsby.

I know it's not the biggest league in the world but still..... Grimsby?
Absolutely unnecessary violence.
 

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Nope. Haaland got up and finished playing the game and played for Norway in midweek
It fucked his knee completely and he only made a couple of sub appearances and then retired though, didn't he?
 

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I’m noticing as I’m getting older that a lot of these things from my memory aren’t actually how I remembered them.
Think my brains getting frazzled.
 

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I’m noticing as I’m getting older that a lot of these things from my memory aren’t actually how I remembered them.
Think my brains getting frazzled.
or the Mandela effect.
 

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I’m noticing as I’m getting older that a lot of these things from my memory aren’t actually how I remembered them.
Think my brains getting frazzled.
That's how people were treating it twenty years ago, too. Can't let facts get in the way of a good narrative
 

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I thought he broke Haaland’s leg?
He did, finished his career on purpose and said so in his autobiography. Did it because Haaland, a former team mate at Forest injured Keane with a perfectly fair tackle the season before. Great player but had a proper mean streak in him.
We had Brian Kilkline, forty years or so ago now who broke two players legs in the same season. One was Alan Ainscow, winger on a cold Tuesday night playing for Everton. Kilcline, ( killer ) sprinted across to the wing and absolutely went straight through him and I heard the bone crack from 40 yards away, horrible.
Like Keane, a very good player, captain of Coventrys FA cup team and played his career in the top division but he was and still is a thug.
We also had for half a game Martin Kuhl who was a complete head banger, sent off for head butting and gone from the club by the final whistle but just destroyed players and should have been booted out of football long before he retired. Thankfully things have improved on that front.
 

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He did, finished his career on purpose and said so in his autobiography. Did it because Haaland, a former team mate at Forest injured Keane with a perfectly fair tackle the season before. Great player but had a proper mean streak in him.
We had Brian Kilkline, forty years or so ago now who broke two players legs in the same season. One was Alan Ainscow, winger on a cold Tuesday night playing for Everton. Kilcline, ( killer ) sprinted across to the wing and absolutely went straight through him and I heard the bone crack from 40 yards away, horrible.
Like Keane, a very good player, captain of Coventrys FA cup team and played his career in the top division but he was and still is a thug.
We also had for half a game Martin Kuhl who was a complete head banger, sent off for head butting and gone from the club by the final whistle but just destroyed players and should have been booted out of football long before he retired. Thankfully things have improved on that front.
He didn't break his leg, it was a knee injury
 

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He did, finished his career on purpose and said so in his autobiography. Did it because Haaland, a former team mate at Forest injured Keane with a perfectly fair tackle the season before. Great player but had a proper mean streak in him.
We had Brian Kilkline, forty years or so ago now who broke two players legs in the same season. One was Alan Ainscow, winger on a cold Tuesday night playing for Everton. Kilcline, ( killer ) sprinted across to the wing and absolutely went straight through him and I heard the bone crack from 40 yards away, horrible.
Like Keane, a very good player, captain of Coventrys FA cup team and played his career in the top division but he was and still is a thug.
We also had for half a game Martin Kuhl who was a complete head banger, sent off for head butting and gone from the club by the final whistle but just destroyed players and should have been booted out of football long before he retired. Thankfully things have improved on that front.

The reason Keane got revenge was because of the things Haaland was saying to him while Keane was lying there injured not the actual tackle.
 

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Luke Williams now 2/5 favourite for the Oxford job. Yikes.
 

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Has Alexander been sacked yet?
Funny enough according to one of our ITKs Wild was one turned down along with Barton for the role, he got lucky if that’s the case.
i know he turned down the chance to manage Bradford when he was still at Halifax....
 

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Luke Williams now 2/5 favourite for the Oxford job. Yikes.
He's the favourite for every job, I wouldn't worry about if I was a Notts fan unless a big Championship club comes sniffing.

Sounds like a particularly lazy link just because of the Rodrigues connection.
 

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