All the criticism of Vieira's sacking seems to be from those who weren't watching week on week and only looked at the position in the table.

I've had loads of people who support other clubs expressing their surprise at his sacking but they only picked up on his initial effect in his first season.

And what they see and hear in the media.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

Crooks is now saying that it is not enough for Haaland to score a bucket of goals to be seen as one of the players of the season:

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It is clear to me that this buffoon is desperately trying to cultivate an 'off the wall' eccentric image for himself, in order not to look boring and be just a pundit who gives his opinion on players' abilities and merits (which is all he is - a poor one at that).

Best to ignore the fool.

Edited by Slimey Toad (17 May 2023 11.07am)

It was so tightly packed near the bottom at that point - I think we were 3 points above the drop and at the time we were losing to Leicester in Roy’s first game they were above us in the table.

Yes, I consider myself to have been well and truly fobbed too:

Dear Mr YT

Thanks for contacting us about Garth Crooks' latest team of the week on the BBC Sport website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65490056).

In the section on Eberechi Eze, Garth is referring to Crystal Palace’s need for a new manager for next season and beyond, and the ‘young’ reference was not intended to be loaded criticism of Roy Hodgson.

Palace brought Roy Hodgson out of retirement to help stave off relegation worries, and Garth’s point was that the next manager will be ‘younger’, if not ‘young’. As such, we’ve changed ‘young’ to ‘younger’.

As a pundit for BBC Sport, Garth is employed to provide his expert opinion from a lifetime in football and clearly has his own views on Patrick Vieira’s sacking.

We’d like to thank you for sharing your concerns with us, which we’ve discussed with the team at the Sport website. This helps to inform our ongoing work.

Thanks again and wishing you all the best,

BBC Complaints Team
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Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

I noticed that john Barnes was at it again on a Simon Jordan podcast.

Apparently he had a better win ration at Celtic (1%) than Steven Gerrard (Rangers) but he got sacked ergo racism.

Sometimes Barnes talks a lot of sense about racism but when it comes to his managerial career he is out with the fairies.

He took over a decent Celtic side and was sacked 8 months later
after the supercally.... defeat. I suspect the form of the team that season was the main reason for his sacking.

Stevie G on the other hand took over a Rangers side that had been second best to Celtic for years. In his second season he won the title and left for a bigger job.

If JB had been hard done by he had plenty of opportunities to correct this travesty and yet his managerial career has hardly been stellar.

Great player but not a good manager, bit like Steveie G really

Edited by Badger11 (19 May 2023 8.11am)

One more point

It enforces his point more