Managerial Failure Quotes

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.

There is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the ‘bureaucrats’. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.

He who brings a style to a club that can't carry it out, he is not a good manager, because he is attacking the club that hires him.

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair - is there anyone more despised now? Gordon Brown - all right, nobody voted for him but, you know... just think of any of them. Margaret Thatcher. John Major. Steve McLaren. Fabio Capello.

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

It's the last question mark against me in my career. Why couldn't I keep a team in the Premier League.