Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
I didn't claim we ran full pelt for 90 minutes (as you are misleadingly trying to suggest) I said we gave 100% and we did.
No, we didn't. I had a season ticket in that era and that's just not true.
Quite regularly I'd see us blitz a team and then coast the rest. Yes we controlled games, we were the best side around, but if we'd given 100% we'd have got double figures in many games.

I really can't understand how anyone can defend this man any longer.
Well, it depends what he's being accused of. If Spurs fans chant about him being a paedophile then I'll defend him.
I think he should be sacked, but that doesn't mean I think he's a complete incompetent or that everything he does is wrong and that anyone could come in and we'd do better.
I'll defend him against stuff like that and comments like he's a "sad and pathetic overpaid flop". That's just WUMming (he is overpaid of course, but so are most people in football).

It hasn't been a decade of failure. Neither has it been a decade of success. Those two statements are not contradictory, it's too simplistic to paint it as success or failure. As I keep reminding you, 2 years ago you backed his new contract on the strength of the FA Cup win, now you're calling it a decade of failure and dismissing the FA Cup as meaningless.

A more balanced view is that there has been some success and some failure. Overall I'd there's been more of the latter but keeping us in the top 4 was a success in the era when the billionaires were having the most impact. The two FA Cups have been nice and a seemed like a sign of hope. We should have won a couple of titles in that era though. This year has been a weird one - it looks like we'll finish above all the usual suspects and then lose the league to Leicester .

As you said, the other top sides are changing their manager because of this, we should too. And yes, I doubt we will.