Tony Adams - Tactical Genius!

[Ex Shelton Seagull]

What has Adams got against Rooney? First we had:

"Despite the extraordinary tournament he is having, I would drop Rooney from tonight's England team to play Croatia."

Now he's saying:

"Rooney's a great player and sits well between the midfield and the attack but, in order to keep it tight, I'd put him on the bench with Scholes in midfield behind Owen. If we need to try to open Portugal up, let Wayne loose with 20 minutes to go"

And of course we can't forget his pearls of wisdom before the France game:

"I fear they will make a donkey out of Ledley ... I would not pick King, I'd have picked Jamie Carragher on the left hand side of Campbell ... I know, from bitter experience, what it is like to be thrust unprepared into a match of this significance ... France will tear us apart in an open game."

No wonder Wycombe got relegated! Thank God Wycombe don't have any amazing young players, they'd all be sat on the bench or put in the reserves.

 

[aftershavedave]

tony adams

 

[tinx]

There was a point where we could have signed him as manager. Lucky escape.

 

[Zeitgeist]

To think his name was being suggested as an Albion manager not so long ago. They say excess alchohol erodes the braincells in time. Time appears to have caught up with T.A......

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Anyone seen Gareth Glover recently since he stormed off in a huff?

 

[Seagull's Return]

Jesus, if you were a Chairboy you'd be weeping at that lot... narrow escape for us, right enough.

 

[Icy Gull]

He will soon join the Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton school of great players, useless managers and be out on his ear from Wycombe, imo.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

one word(well two)Wycombe wanderers

 

[Brovion]

The trouble is he's so typical of the English mentality which is ALWAYS to prefer huff and puff and effort over talent. When Rooney was first picked for England I was watching that 'Breakfast with Jimmy' program on Sky Sports, and a Daily Express journalist was sneering at the selection saying it was a 'publicity stunt'.

Remember when Owen first broke through in 1998? The England manager (Hoddle) really didn't want to pick him and came up with all sorts of nonsense to justify not having him in the starting line-up. Thank heavens we've got a foreign manager now, it's no coincidence that all the top managers in the Premiership - let alone the world - are foreign.

 

[Rangdo]

If he's said we're going to lose tonight I think we've got a chance

 

[fatbadger]

it's no coincidence that all the top managers in the Premiership are foreign.

There are precisely three foreign managers (4 if you include O'Leary) in the Premiershite - and one of those is at Spurs. And two of those three haven't actually managed in the Premiershite yet.

 

[Icy Gull]

There are precisely three foreign managers (4 if you include O'Leary) in the Premiershite - and one of those is at Spurs. And two of those three haven't actually managed in the Premiershite yet.

I think we count Scots as foreign too

 

[Wozza]

"I signed a 2-year contract here. Who knows? We might be so successful that I take Wycombe into the Premiership and we build a new stadium. Or maybe in two years we'll be down in the Conference and I'll be out of a job. I doubt very much that will happen. Even if we lose 12 more games this season and the chairman comes over to shake my hand that really wouldn't matter. I already know I'm a good manager. Nothing can change that."

Tony Adams, The Observer, December 2003

:thud:

 

[Brovion]

There are precisely three foreign managers (4 if you include O'Leary) in the Premiershite - and one of those is at Spurs. And two of those three haven't actually managed in the Premiershite yet.

I said TOP managers, there's enough English dross managing the mid-lower clubs.