The only time I think I’ve ever seen signs demanding a manager be sacked, indeed anyone at the ground outwardly and openly displaying dissent directly toward the manager, during the Amex era was the very end of the Hyppia regime.
A few grumbles on here really isn’t comparable, this place is...
Bang on, rattled is the word. I genuinely think he thought he would rock up as the returning hero, get some polite applause (maybe only the odd jeer) and would tactically outsmart us knowing what we’d do. To then be steamrollered on the field and constantly harangued off it would have been...
Yes. I know that because I watched a few trying to start a scrap in the Brighton-bound train queue afterwards and ended up getting hooked by Plod for a word. Was the only time I heard anything from any of them other than the few doing some homophobic chanting on the train in.