Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
No, they've been equally shite and miserable under many other managers, Lampard and Ancellotti (I still reckon he thought he'd taken the Liverpool job tbh) being just two recent examples, Moyes is the only manager in the last forty years to make them look even mid-table
They were shit because they overspent on average players it wasn’t a conscious decision by the managers to be pubbers

And under Roberto Martinez they actually played decent football as well until things went south for him there

Well no I take that back slightly, when Koeman was there they engaged in shithousery when they didn’t need to.

Their ground (current ground) is a complete toilet as well. But I think more often than not how they’ve played is more a feature of their precarious economic status for the most part. I think we can probably look at how things were under Farhad Moshiri (who was the co owner along with Jabba the Hutt of Red and White Holdings) and say there but for the grace of God go we.