So the time has finally come that The Championship’s most inconsistent manager Kevin Blackwell of my beloved Leeds United has had his marching orders, he took over in May 2004, and managed to get us to the play off final, now if he only he had told his players it was the play off final and not just a day trip out to Cardiff, things could have been so different and we wouldn’t find ourselves second from bottom and on a fall from glory nearly as fast as Sam Allardyce’s looks set to be.

This interestingly leads us on to who will be the next person to take over at Elland Road, and i’m afraid to say who ever it is Leeds fans will surely be dissapointed, i first started supporting Leeds when they were in the equivelant league they are in now, and were managed by Howard Wilkinson, he was then replaced by George Graham who at the time was out of football because of a bung scandal, (funny how these things come round again) he then left us for Spurs and we replaced him with wait for it ….. his assitant, now David O’Leary did a good job no denying that before he was sacked and replaced with Terry Venables, who had been out of the game for a while, so we got rid of him and replaced with Peter Reid who proved his managerial skills by being unable to recognise Ian Harte (his own player at the time) on A Question Of Sport, he kept us up, but then he had to go to, and Eddie Gray, another assistant took over, only for his assitant Kevin Blackwell to come and go.

What i guess i’m trying to say it doesn’t really matter who leeds get linked with the likelyhood is they will make the wrong choice, Alan Curbishley seems the most likely candidate at the moment and that would not really be a suprise as he appears to be Mr Reliable, i mentioned to Alan in the forums, that we might get O’Leary back and he seemed suprised i suggested it, but if i’m honest i don’t blame him, it was all Risdales fault, who would be my ideal candidate, well apparently Ken Bates is very good friends with Claudio Raneiri and if that was to happen i would finally get my dream of a big name manager who may actually do something, and who wouldn’t like to have Claudio’s wisdom back in the Premiership.

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