Shatner's Bassoon
The Puff Pastry Hangman
- Feb 12, 2012
- 860
There's a difference between those clubs and Palace: Fulham and West Brom didn't, in my recollection, have a view of themselves as being an upper midtable team by rights, held back by poor management. Neither did they have egotistical, interfering pillocks in the boardroom for him to contend with (Al-Fayed was a surprisingly good chairman, as far as I remember). There appear to be a fair few egos at Palace, and his tenure at Liverpool and England is relevant inasmuch as it suggests that he's actually pretty rubbish at dealing with teams whose players and supporters have hyped-up expectations of who and what they are.
I could be wrong, obviously, but this looks like a pleasingly poor appointment to me.
