Liam Manning

brinyhoof

"Curse"! https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/23775139.oxford-united-boss-liam-manning-wins-league-one-manager-month/

JonnyBiscuits

Manningball!

According to The Athletic over 92% of managers in the football league have at some point in the past 12 months earned the right to have their brand of football named as [manager's name]ball.

And I thought we were special!

What was once a rare label that immediately implied elite-level thinking has now become almost too easy to bestow. According to the data, only seven clubs (Rotherham United, Barnsley, Accrington Stanley, Forest Green, MK Dons, Salford City and Sutton United) remain [Manager]ball-less

https://theathletic.com/4862415/2023/09/15/wengerball-sarriball-angeball-managerball?source=user-shared-article

Bspittles

A couple of examples of how to play from the back… badly!

brinyhoof

Hopefully this is not behind the paywall. Includes a couple of LM quotes:

How the Pep Guardiola revolution took over the lower leagues

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/b3e01fac-69e6-11ee-853b-c0bf92ce36b1?shareToken=893c96204b040329f855677e68248442

JonnyBiscuits

brinyhoof

Nice to get a shout out.

Classic national football journalist take though - "wow, the lower leagues are actually quite good, I wonder if anybody else has noticed"

brinyhoof

JonnyBiscuits like the fella who asked Cam after Exeter “have you ever scored two penalties in a match before?”

JonnyBiscuits

brinyhoof I loved that. And Cam turned to Nathan C and said "are you gonna tell him or am I?"

TrevorAylottsHeadband

Manning gets a touchline ban which means he'll be in the stands for the Maidenhead game. Of all the games he could miss, this is probably the least-worse option. He's clearly absolutely fuming about the situation though.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/23897845.liam-manning-oxford-united-manager-serve-one-match-ban/

brinyhoof

TrevorAylottsHeadband My biggest concern is where he will place his water bottle.

TrevorAylottsHeadband

brinyhoof Given the chance, I would imagine the answer is "inserted at high velocity up Seb Stockbridge's back passage".

JonnyBiscuits

I really want to know what the everyday swear words were. I'm going with "You total shit, stick it up your bollocks."

brinyhoof

JonnyBiscuits

JonnyBiscuits I'm going with "You total shit, stick it up your bollocks."

*You total in terms of shit, stick it in terms of up your bollocks

oxblogger

Maybe the lesson is to use rare swear words, you'd have to admire a manager calling the ref a fopdoodle smellfungus.

brinyhoof

In other LM “news” https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-city-liam-manning-oxford-8879752

JonnyBiscuits

brinyhoof No chance are we even letting them talk to him. We'll be in a higher division than them next season anyway, they've got no chance. Jumped up Swindon clones.

JonnyBiscuits

Lol. Idiots. https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/02/frank-lampard-clear-favourite-to-land-vacant-championship-job-19762052

brinyhoof

JonnyBiscuits jeez, how is he still getting work? Was on a two-man shortlist for the Rangers job as well.

TrevorAylottsHeadband

Betting now suspended on Manning to get the Brizzle City job

JonnyBiscuits

TrevorAylottsHeadband If he leaves, I bet it's because we didn't have catering outside the ground at the FA Cup match.

JonnyBiscuits

Joking aside, I'm gonna be fucking livid if this happens.

brinyhoof

JonnyBiscuits me too, mate. Suspended betting and Sky journos declaring it suggest they are just ironing out the compensation package and agreeing on who goes with him. Very much hope we can appoint Hogg but my guess is that he takes everyone except Short. Triffic.

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