Greg Bobkin
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CH interview in the Guardian
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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Not sure about anybody else, but I just feel there's very little new to be said about CH and the Albion in the nationals now, just a whole load of papers being forced by results to switch their attention away from Newcastle and play belated catch-up to the REAL story of the season. Finally not under the radar anymore.
Silverhatch
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What a fantastic article.
LamieRobertson
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I'd agree with that assessment
CP 0 3 BHA
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He just comes across as a quality individual - every time.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Decent, honest and truthful manager finally hooked up with decent, honest and truthful chairman. I can honestly see him being here longer than Wenger at Arsenal. Seriously can't envisage a scenario whereby TB is moved to replace CH with Colin Wanker or Dancing Alan or any of the other usual serial loser suspects.
rocker959
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Nice guys can win .
Lincoln Imp
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Interesting piece from a sensible newspaper, although I don't think the Albion has ever been bankrupt.
Greg Bobkin
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I'm not so sure about that. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't know he played for West Ham and Brentford. Nor did I know that he wrote a football column for the Workers Revolutionary Party’s newspaper.
I know what you're getting at – and it's hardly re-inventing the wheel – but I thought it was a decent, wide-ranging piece that was as much about the man as the club. 'Hughton is enjoying himself again, away from the pressures of management or inequality. But there is an urgent knock on the door and another reminder that our interview should have ended 15 minutes earlier. Bloom and his directors have been kept waiting." That's just funny
Papa Lazarou
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Great article
Tom Hark Preston Park
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For sure. But I've read every single element of that article multiple times before.
symyjym
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Yep agree, we will always need a football Guru who can be trusted so I can easily see him being our Wenger. He is also acting as our director of football all in but name so even when he wants to retire from the sideline I would still like him to have a director of football role here in some capacity and oversee future managers.
Bloom and Barber are great at their jobs, but there is nothing that they can tell Hughton about the actual football and who to recruit.
I can't - it would mean he'd be approaching 80 years old...........
Greg Bobkin
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I stopped reading comments sections on web articles a LONG time ago, let alone thought about engaging with the people who'd written them!
BBassic
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I know, me too. But when I saw it I felt some weird compulsion to explain to him we'd not bought promotion. I'm so weak.
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It's quite hard to say something new after reading such an article that shows something of what CH is like.
Suffice it to say I think he is a very important part of the character and the ethos of the club which goes way, way beyond what he does for the football..... which in itself is remarkable.
Suffice it to say I think he is a very important part of the character and the ethos of the club which goes way, way beyond what he does for the football..... which in itself is remarkable.
symyjym
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It was a good read actually.
Not sure about black manager inequality in football. Half of the Prem is filled with foreign managers. I don’t remember Ruud Gullit managing Chelsea being anything other than normal but not all players can make the step into management. There have been many black managers who just aren’t good managers just like bad white managers. Or take Chris Powell who did good things at Charlton, he didn’t get sacked for his colour, it was the owners who owned another club and brought their own manager over.
Football managment is a cut throat business and no managers job is safe. What happened at Birmingham with Gary Rowett is just football. If he was black would we think it happened because of his colour. Hughton didn’t lose his job at Newcastle and Norwich because of colour.
Football management is a tough career for everyone and Nathan Jones is a great example of how hard you need to work if this is the path one chooses. I am not sure that the average good footballer, no matter their colour can make the jump into management. Certainly not the Kemy’s and Leon Best’s of the football world because money for these types just spoils them into being lazy piss takers.
Hughton has got where he is today purely because of all the hard work he has put in, and Rosenior is the type who will have a future in management because he will actually go and get his coaching qualifications and will earn his trust at a club in the future. Coaching and assistant managing is still a very good achievement in this game. Do all spoilt with money players want to work hard? No, if we look at Shearer wanting to manage England only to find out he hasn’t bothered to earn his coaching badges.
Hughton has an impeccable track record in the football game that can be traced back forty years, that’s why he got the job here, and that’s why the time is right for him and us. He is an inspiration for black managers but with the lesson to work hard and be of good integrity.
Not sure about black manager inequality in football. Half of the Prem is filled with foreign managers. I don’t remember Ruud Gullit managing Chelsea being anything other than normal but not all players can make the step into management. There have been many black managers who just aren’t good managers just like bad white managers. Or take Chris Powell who did good things at Charlton, he didn’t get sacked for his colour, it was the owners who owned another club and brought their own manager over.
Football managment is a cut throat business and no managers job is safe. What happened at Birmingham with Gary Rowett is just football. If he was black would we think it happened because of his colour. Hughton didn’t lose his job at Newcastle and Norwich because of colour.
Football management is a tough career for everyone and Nathan Jones is a great example of how hard you need to work if this is the path one chooses. I am not sure that the average good footballer, no matter their colour can make the jump into management. Certainly not the Kemy’s and Leon Best’s of the football world because money for these types just spoils them into being lazy piss takers.
Hughton has got where he is today purely because of all the hard work he has put in, and Rosenior is the type who will have a future in management because he will actually go and get his coaching qualifications and will earn his trust at a club in the future. Coaching and assistant managing is still a very good achievement in this game. Do all spoilt with money players want to work hard? No, if we look at Shearer wanting to manage England only to find out he hasn’t bothered to earn his coaching badges.
Hughton has an impeccable track record in the football game that can be traced back forty years, that’s why he got the job here, and that’s why the time is right for him and us. He is an inspiration for black managers but with the lesson to work hard and be of good integrity.