Platinii - 24/5/2013 12:18
As far as I am concerned, they are all as bad as each other.
Ashley's appointments to date have been pretty much shìte all round. Take Chris Mort out of the equation who was only helping temporarily right at the start, and all you have left is the debacle of Keegan for a few months. Everyone else from Wise, Jimenez, Kinnear and Llambias through to Pardew have been absolutely disastrous.
Special mention to Hughton (Not Houghton), for stabilising us, but he was never really Ashley's appointment - he just ended up in there by default and they couldn't get rid of him as he was doing so well.
I think it is true to say that Pardew has taken the heat off Ashley with his non-stop bullshìt laden press conferences filled with general smug annoyingness, which have turned into a factory line of excuses these last six months or so.
The focus is definitely on him and his clueless brand of football and piss poor man management.
But who has made the decision to stick by him after last season?
Who is sticking by an MD who isn't in the slightest qualified or able to manage the running of a Premier League club?
Who has created and nurtured the set up of the chief scout picking new players, a clueless MD sanctioining the purchases and an inept manager playing them wherever he can manage, whilst at the same time, embarking on a programme of relieving them of their footballing skills and motivation?
Ashley has cleverly deflected blame by ensuring his gobshite mouthpiece takes all the flak.
The casino hardman, way out of his depth also appears to be escaping any fans ire (Not that there is any).
It's a trio of incompetency, ineptness, inexperience, unprofessionalism with no desire to achieve footballing success, but purely to make a profit out of the club, and we're letting it happen.
