david yearsley wrote:After allowing the dust to settle a little I´m left confused and facing a dichotomy
On one hand Hughes was seeming more and more like the proverbial D.M.W., defensively and tactically naive but he´d achieved what most of us were asking for with , lets not forget, some scintillating football. I believed the owners were honourable people with a long term picture and for that reason I expected Les to get till new year , as with another 2 wins we´d be very close to top 4, yet on the other hand the owners have backed him to the hilt and he WASN´T their appointment. I´d heard so much about "team building for a long term legacy" and now I see the possibility within 12 months of Mancini being shown the door and we fall into the same old downward spiral . Would Hughes have done worse or better in the same 12 months? We´ll never know , but I fear that forums like this , where lets face it , many of us don´t actually go to games (regularly anyway) and some of the panic about Platini´s hare - brained plans have forced their hand to an extent. A part of me will always think "what if Hughes had stayed around 5 or even 10 years?" , " would we have created a Baconface type hegemony?" , coz lets face it, it was blue from Chaddy called Mark Robbins that saved Ferguscums arse after 3 and a half years of abject failure.
Time waits for no man and none of us can change the course of what is now history so Mancini will get my full support and I hope unanimous backing from the City faithful as we sweep all before us, but you can´t help feeling it won´t be long before we´re having this debate again - that´s football these days - you can´t stop the bus and demand to get off - old Corinthian values are long gone and "success now!" is king whether you like it or not. Perhaps most of us on here would take a couple of quick trophies and then return to the circus we´ve been used to for so long.
"The king is dead, long live ... ... who is it this time...?"
Thats the most reasoned post I have read in all this madness.
