It may indeed be churlish, but I have to say that, given the opportunity, wouldn't most fans want to stop a manager just buggering off and going to manage a rival?
We get to stand helplessly by and watch them up sticks and leave, and then come back for the best players, thereby undoing some of...
I hope you're right Nelse, I really do. BUT...he bailed out on Man City after 44 days. Taylor bailed out on us when he didn't even have a job to go to, he only thought he did. Adams left, not even for the no.1 role at the time, despite being completely shat upon by most of his former clubs, but...
You have my sympathy, Wilts (although not your club for reasons I'll outline). For me, Pardew's shown his short sightedness - at the moment I'd suggest Reading is a better bet for a manager than West Ham. Failure to get WHU out of this division will be a disaster, if Reading come close (say...