It's not a 4-4-2 so it already discounts 2 of our PL managers who would just get confused.
It's not a 4-4-2 so it already discounts 2 of our PL managers who would just get confused.
Poch is clearly the absolute standout. Highest league finish since 1989-90 season, our only genuine title tilt since the early 60s, and the only time in the EPL era we've had an identify and the whole fan base has been united round a common vision and purpose.
Honourables to Jol (a good guy who made real progress) and Ramos (the 2008 LC win was the biggest highlight of this 24 year period)
But for me Poch is already pushing Burkinshaw and Rowe for the title of our second greatest manager of all time, let alone the EPL era.
Redknapp
Jol
Poch
If you have Ramos you need to have George Graham, they both won the same trophy after all.
One felt euphoric, the other was always tainted
I get why you think Poch is the best but you can't just airbrush out Redknapp no matter how much you dislike him. He punched through the top 4 glass ceiling which at the time didn't look possible unless you had mega-millions to spend.
Significantly less than the sum of our parts IMO.Or lucked out by Comolli's squad maturing at the right time, good at liberating talented players, but never more than the sum of our parts, and was short-termist/unsustainable (no investment in the foundations/youth)
If we are going purely for managers who made us feel good lets get Ossie & Hoddle in there.
Neither achieved anything. Ardiles' famous 5 fanfare didn't even last till November. Ramos delivered silverware.
Just stick up every PL manager we have had and lets vote!
I want to vote for David Pleat.Won't that just remind people of all the ones we've been trying to blank out - Gross, Graham, Santini, Sherwood
I want to vote for David Pleat.