not before i opened it

173. At 12:26pm on 06 Oct 2009, robjm447 wrote:
People seem to have missed the point that Roy Keane and Ipswich now go so well together. He was the logical choice in a sequence of events:
(i) Let's screw all the local businessmen who helped build our new stand. Let's not pay the St John Ambulance their ?2000. Let's go into administration. Oh and let's be generous and give them all 2p in the pound. Let's not have a points penalty because it hasn't been invented yet, but we'll vote for it anyway.
(ii) Let's now get England's Howard Hughes to take over now he hasn't got all those nasty debts to worry about and all those horrible little people running around clamouring for what they are owed.
(iii) Let's get in a Mr Nasty Clegg to insult everyone's intelligence and make sure that the club show that being arrogant and nasty is the way to success.
(iv) Oh, what about poor Mr Niceguy Sheepshanks, old Etonian and jolly good fellow -a bit of a liabilty, but we'll give him something to do in the background so we keep a bit of respectability
(v) Now we've established that being a bastard is the way to success, we'll sack our manager over the phone while he's visiting his sick mum in Ireland.
(vi) Now to complete the picture - who really fits our profile for a new manager? There's really only one option.
(vii) Being nasty and arrogant MUST MUST be the way to success, it really must. It must. We can't go back to the cosy image of the little, family club with sherry and good manners. We're a big club now with a big name manager and a big name investor and a big name troubleshooter executive. OK, we're in a little, rather nasty town with gates that can't even match those of the little League 1 club up the road, but we're getting lots of publicity which means we must be a big club.
(viii) God throws a thunderbolt - with any luck.

Posted By: SCC 28, Oct 6, 12:37:45