Football Daily | The Championship managerial merry-go-round waits for no man

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Few people can lift the altruistic, benevolent haze of Paris 2024 on a Monday morning quite like Peter Ridsdale, a man who would give Buzz Killington a run for his money in the Vibe Olympics, but the managerial merry-go-round waits for no Football Man. One might think the chairman blamed for bringing Leeds United to its knees in the 2000s – who once spent club money on tropical goldfish to swim around a tank in his Elland Road office – wouldn’t be at the sharp end of Football Decisions in 2024. But Ridsdale, at Preston since December 2011, has wasted no time in encouraging manager Ryan Lowe out of a door marked ‘Sling ya Hook’ just one game into the new Championship season. And by wasting no time, Football Daily means that Ridsdale has seemingly wasted quite a lot of time – a full pre-season and a summer of recruitment and planning to be precise – before Lowe’s exit materialised.

It’s good to see in advance of the first game of the season, Sheffield Wednesday spent the first weekend of the Championship passive-aggressively warning fans with the official statement that ‘although we cannot prevent supporters from wearing counterfeit shirts away from Hillsborough, we do respectfully request that such products are not displayed inside the stadium. Anyone found to be wearing a fake shirt inside Hillsborough could be asked to leave, with information passed on to the relevant parties’. Now, as a law-abiding citizen, I am of course always willing to adhere to such things. However, I would also like an open and honest explanation of why an official replica shirt of a team that hasn’t played in the top division for 24 years and has only won one trophy in 99 years costs £77 without use of the terms ‘we’re’, ‘ripping’, ‘you’, ‘suckers’ and ‘off’” – Noble Francis.

I don’t know what astronomers have done to upset you – were you big Pluto fans, perhaps? – but fair play for winding them up in tribute to the ultimate wind-up merchant, Pepe, by referring to Johannes Kepler as an astrologer (Friday’s Football Daily). Having looked at the stars, I predict 1,057 letters from furious telescope botherers” – David Madden (and 1,056 furious telescope botherers).

Seeing Tim Ream’s transfer to Charlotte from Fulham (and especially Trevor Wastell’s email on Friday) has naturally prompted me to write in regarding the options for Fulham-to-Charlotte travel. Prospective travellers will undoubtedly be pleased to see a wide range of flights from Heathrow, direct (via American Airlines) or one-stops, to see Ream at his new home” – Anthony Donnelly.

As a long-time Poppies supporter, I was overjoyed to see you reference us in Friday’s Memory Lane section (full email edition). I well remember the friar, he carried a clanging bell and would ring it as he wandered around the touchline at Kettering. Needless to say, he wasn’t very Christian at times” – Giordy Salvi.

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