A spell at Barca feels spiritually missing from Rijkaard and Gullit's playing careers. Likewise Mancini surely played for both Milan clubs between Sampdoria and Lazio in another universe.
I remembered him scoring a goal against Manchester United while on loan to Fulham and causing a bit of a stir with his trademark airplane celebration. Except that was Montella who played for Fulham, not Delvecchio, and also Montella never scored...
You would think the rough and tumble of the Championship would break people out of the mindset of the 'they won make him next United manager'/'they lost he's shit' thread bump cycle but here we are.
Although this season's Sheffield United team are already safe from beating Derby's infamous points record, they've been compared a few times now to the worst Premier League side of all time. United have 13 points already to Derby's final total of...
The 42 is saying that Bilic hasn't been approached by the FAI and has heard nothing about this. The FAI are just going to keep running names up the flagpole until they get one with sufficient public approval.
I did hope more people would reply with their own views on what a football club should represent, if they actually have any, but as with here it was mostly just an excuse for people to dunk on drab English towns, and Tottenham.
It does seem that rather than identifying the best manager for the players we have, the style we want and the results that are realistic for us to achieve, we have gone "who is affordable that won't say no". Which is maybe understandable, except...
I think if you put Di Canio in a modern front 3 with pacy inside forwards either side he would clean up. That is until Modern Di Canio posted a fascist salute on BeReal or something.