Watford sack Pearson

[thirdmantackle]

Must have had some sort of bonus in contract to keep them up

 

[Saint Domingo]

In a way, I keep seeing comments from Liverpool (and City) fans about being the best team ever, how “United never reached this”, yet when I think back to the 90s, I see

Everton, Spurs, Middlesbrough as your bottom half teams. They’d all have a Go. The lesser teams like Coventry, Wimbledon and Southampton would be far more competitive than your Brighton, Watford and Norwich’.

There wasn’t a big gap because the teams knew how to compete, if you stuck a Coventry or Wimbledon in the League now they’d be a Burnley.

Happy to see Leeds back in the sense that I think it’ll be a more competitive league, but Sheffield Wednesday, West Brom and Nottingham Forest coming in as traditional teams and the likes of Huddersfield, Bournemouth (and their disgraceful 11,500 stadium) staying away is great.

Yeah, it used to be very very difficult to go to the likes of St James’, Elland Road. Villa Park for the top sides and win and these were mid table sides. Now City and Liverpool can go and batter teams away from home who are in third or fourth. It’s a far poorer league and has been for a while with managerial instability in most of the top ten.

Next season will hopefully be more competitive with a better Chelsea, stronger Arsenal, Mourinho settles at Spurs and hopefully a better Everton!

 

[barneygumble]

Yeah, it used to be very very difficult to go to the likes of St James’, Elland Road. Villa Park for the top sides and win and these were mid table sides. Now City and Liverpool can go and batter teams away from home who are in third or fourth. It’s a far poorer league and has been for a while with managerial instability in most of the top ten.

Next season will hopefully be more competitive with a better Chelsea, stronger Arsenal, Mourinho settles at Spurs and hopefully a better Everton!

No taking away from Liverpool or City’s accomplishments, it’s just an easier League.

There used to be a middle ground really where teams would all have different styles. You’d go some places and get clogged off the park and United would always get a clogging from Southampton, Coventry I always seem to remember.
Vastly superior, but fans on top of you at the dell and highfield road, it was harder.

Bring back the bigger teams, and whilst it should make it harder for us, there’s a 99% more chance Goodison would be more rocking for Leeds than it would for huddersfield or Bournemouth.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Sick of managers getting the boot left and right - makes a farce of the sport

 

[ClausThomsen]

On the flipside they've been very poor since the season resumed and he's made some very odd tactical decisions in recent weeks which, devil's advocate mode on, suggests he may have been putting personal grudges ahead of the teams good.

The result against West Ham was appalling and the blame has been put on his shoulders given the line-up and switches made.

The Pozzo's have always worked on the model that as soon as a manager loses, or is seen to lose, their way or even the dressing room then they're out of the door as there's nothing to be gained. It's often worked for them and if getting shut of Pearson now is seen as giving them the slightest chance of improvement then that's what they'll do.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

On the flipside they've been very poor since the season resumed and he's made some very odd tactical decisions in recent weeks which, devil's advocate mode on, suggests he may have been putting personal grudges ahead of the teams good.

The result against West Ham was appalling and the blame has been put on his shoulders given the line-up and switches made.

The Pozzo's have always worked on the model that as soon as a manager loses, or is seen to lose, their way or even the dressing room then they're out of the door as there's nothing to be gained. It's often worked for them and if getting shut of Pearson now is seen as giving them the slightest chance of improvement then that's what they'll do.

He has/had their best ever win ratio in the Premier League! They had won two on the spin before West Ham!

 

[Noble Savage]

I read a comment by a Watford fan " Give it up Doucoure , you're not going to PSG . Stop sulking "
Brilliant .

 

[street end]

Was looking at their managerial stats, Silva only won 7 games whilst in charge.... we hired a manager based on 7 wins wtf!

 

[Walken]

Watfords owners have their heads in the ground

 

[SantaClausisanEvertonian]

Is that gonna cost us another ten million quid?
Surely it's Everton's fault.

 

[kenada_blue]

On the flipside they've been very poor since the season resumed and he's made some very odd tactical decisions in recent weeks which, devil's advocate mode on, suggests he may have been putting personal grudges ahead of the teams good.

The result against West Ham was appalling and the blame has been put on his shoulders given the line-up and switches made.

The Pozzo's have always worked on the model that as soon as a manager loses, or is seen to lose, their way or even the dressing room then they're out of the door as there's nothing to be gained. It's often worked for them and if getting shut of Pearson now is seen as giving them the slightest chance of improvement then that's what they'll do.

That's why I want them relegated. To me they've been surviving on a decent core/spine of players (Foster, Doucouré, Deeney) as a premiership outfit, that it's time that manager merrigoround ended.

Any manger that goes there will just be there to collect the inevitable severance package rather than build a side.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

While I think that Watford and their owners are an utter joke I do fine this phoney outrage at the sacking from the media to be hilariously hypocritical. Rats like Lineker sitting on their high horse passing judgement on an environment they built. Because they did build it, the media created this circus, this culture in football of hiring and firing on a bi-weekly basis. The exact same way they created the pathetic melodrama of transfer deadline day windows. They've turned this sport into a cheesy soap opera and they revel in every juicy bit of gossip they can get their hands of with the football itself merely being a means to an end. They want to be seen wringing their hands in despair at the state of the game all the while being absolutely delighted with the chaos. This is a very big part of the reason that modern footie disgusts me.

 

[maccavennie]

Surprised to see the ostrich fired, thought he had gotten them fighting for survival pretty well

The Ostrich lol

 

[The binman chronicles]

Was looking at their managerial stats, Silva only won 7 games whilst in charge.... we hired a manager based on 7 wins wtf!

He did beat them lot with Hull remember. That's got to be worth a whole career full of trophies.

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

Is that gonna cost us another ten million quid?
Surely it's Everton's fault.

I still can't believe we paid that after they sacked him