In January..........

[Holden_C]

^^ This, exactly.

Running a football club isn't like running a property empire, or indeed any other business. The idea that a person is successful in one sphere and therefore will automatically be successful in another is flawed and shows a high level of arrogance. There'd be no shame in admitting that he's out of his depth and bringing in advisers who know what they're doing. We might have had a more successful ten years if he'd only done so rather than being full of his own self-importance and trying to leverage the good name of the club to further his business interests.

You've clearly forgotten the "football men" he brought in, Fat Turry and Trevor Birch. Both much more experienced in football than McCabe. Turry the driving force in the appointment of Red Wine Robbo and his free spending and BIrch who cost us, I believe, £600k a year and helped us plumb the depths despite his high standing in the game. Then there's Basset who wanted a manager to relive the glory days he achieved but playing hoof twenty five to thirty years after it was discredited by good coaches.

As for furthering his business interests, he was active in China before NW took us back to the PL. Fradi was a land deal, or that was the idea before local interests wanted in. Again, l doubt SUFC were a big name in Budapest at any point.

While, it's cost us having to watch lower division football for six years, we had a choice. The only person paying for McCabes mistakes is McCabe.


Easy this running a football club.


(But l've read most clubs make losses, surely that can't be right?)