Which of course inevitably as a manager you do, when your team begins to struggle. It is no good scoring freely, if you are shipping goals. The first rule by any good manager is to ensure the defence is sound and build from then on. Ferguson talks about it in his book, Clough spoke about it...
Yes would prefer Steve Clarke, to all the 'certainties' that have been discussed on NSC in the last week.
Tactically astute, unlikely to rub people up the wrong way.