Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
He's the one who has chosen to keep walking into fast moving traffic. It's on him to realise that the club is bigger than his personal ambitions and he lost sight of that fact a long time ago. He's facing the facts the fans have known for a long time now - at least I hope he's facing them. The absolute low point was the 6-0 drubbing on his thousandth game against a bitter rival. In isolation okay he could maybe brush that off, but it was the opposite, it was a crushing confirmation based on a stream of similar calamities that he was finished. He chose not to accept it and now he's ended up here, pulling the whole club down to joke status yet again. Can we really be sympathetic for somebody who has brought this on himself and on the club as a whole? Yes, there's the stadium, the trophies of the past, a whole stack of good times. But that's not how football works and because football is a cut-throat, results based business the rewards are huge. Obscene in fact. And he's enjoyed the rewards whist taking advantage of a unique position in which he's made himself answerable to only himself and has therefore evaded the consequences of repeated failure. He's had his cake and eaten it. This resulting pressure goes with the territory and if I'm honest I don't feel an ounce of sympathy for him. I have a very hard time feeling sympathetic for people who beg for predictable misfortune and then inevitably get it, especially when they drag thousands of other people into their mess.
Totally agree, should have hung up his hat years ago, as you say his 1000th match told you all you need to know. Unfortunately he's not one to take note or to learn, I don't feel any sympathy for the guy, he's been happy enough to point the finger at the fans when he's the one he should be looking at.

Like you say he's brought it on himself, he's had the warnings many times before and he had to do was take notice and either retire or change, unfortunately he decided to the the same thing over and over and over and over again, because as we knw he thinks he's always right.