- Re Nelson and Saha, who knows what happened behind doors with Levy & Harry, I don't know, so I can't defend it, neither can you beat him with a stick on it.
Eh. That goes two ways, really - if you don't know what happened with Nelsen and Saha because it was behind closed doors, you really don't know what happened with most of the things we've done because we don't release the minutes of our daily operations. You can't attribute what went went well solely to Levy and assign whatever went wrong to his managers - and Nelsen and Saha were examples of things going horribly, woefully wrong.
I'd like to see it as him making truly terrible mistakes and being an incomparable tight*rse....but learning from those mistakes. Learning well, and ultimately refraining from making them again.
We could have had a better chairman and a better owner - we could have had many far worse chairmen, and unbelievably bad owners. Ultimately, Levy places reasonably high in the pantheon of football executives - up there at an eminently respectable level due to the passage of time and his steadily improved decision-making over the years.
I get
@spitshine 's point - it's a bit exaggerated, but I get it. I also sympathize with
@JerusalemMan 's point, though - it's a happy time for the club, and a time meant for fond remembrances and farewells. No need to be churlish and point out our past mistakes at a time like this.
No need to forget them, either, but ideally no one brings up pros or cons and just enjoys the moment that Danny boy has definitely helped deliver.