He certainly loved to blame referees and to refuse to talk about his own team's shortcomings but plenty of British managers do that too. Neil Warnock, Steve Bruce, Paul Jewell, Big Sam for instance.
You never can tell, though. Nobody expected West Brom to drop off a cliff last season, especially after signing Barry and Krychowiak. For the rest of our tenure in the Premier League we're always going to be looking for three clubs to finish above and relying on smaller clubs to perform as...