Staunton Fired
Posted on October 24, 2007 - Filed Under Football |
At last!
According to this BBC News story Liam Brady is interested in the job, although David O’Leary is the current favourite to replace the hapless Staunton. Either would be a vast improvement, but I’d hate to see Brady take charge, solely because it would probably mean the end of his role as a RTÉ pundit. O’Leary was an alright-to-good manager during his premiership tenures, so he should at least be able to make a better fist of the job than ‘Stan’, who will be fortunate if he ever manages a team again.
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Brady has himself to blame for being mentioned in the story; during RTÉ’s coverage of the Man Utd-Kiev match Bill O’Herlihy asked him would he consider the job, were he offered it. He said yes but then spent the next few minutes dodging questions on the topic. I think he’d be a pretty good choice but as he’s more used to working with individual players rather than getting results it mightn’t work out.
It would be a shame if he left Arsenal too, considering that he’s in some way responsible for all the great young players that the club churns out. Right now I like to see Martin Jol get it, but I don’t know if he’d accept it. My guess is that he wouldn’t.