The club had recently been taken over too, The Caspian Group if I remember rightly. It was clear that they wanted their own man in and the 4-0 defeat at home to Man U (a game I had the misfortune to attend) was the perfect excuse. I would have said that the majority of fans at the game that day wanted Wilko out.Clacton White wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:20 pm I was in Devon when that League cup final was played , doing a race called Grizzly , anyway that final was the same afternoon and I had finished the run , git back to b&b and watched the final .......maybe the most disappointing game I saw the side play for many a year . The team just didn't play , bar Andy Gray ....from then I think Wilco's days were numbered .Despite a decent start to the following season the team were hammered at home v Man Utd and it was all the excuse needed , maybe George Graham had already secretly been sounded out ......but I have to say Howard achieved what I thought no manager after Don Revie could achieve.......winning the title .It had seemed a lifetime since the last title (18 years) , the gap between Howards and now though is twelve years longer and counting . You don't appreciate what Howard did until you look back , for a team up one season it was a great achievement . Wouldn't happen now in the era of the billionaire owners .
When I mentioned a few weeks back that I was proud of our players for still giving everything right to the final minute in the 7-0 drubbing by Man City it was because the players were still giving everything they had, for their own pride and because they had complete confidence in Bielsa. The players, or certainly the majority of them, in the 4-0 loss to Man Utd gave up, it was like men v boys. A lot of the players that day should hang their heads in shame.