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Latest Birmingham City news from BirminghamLive as Wayne Rooney discusses his Blues departure with Gary Neville, Roy Keane, Jamie Carragher and Jill Scott
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Four failed football managers having a discussion about why it's always someone else's fault and not their own.
He can try and rewrite the history of his time at Blues all he likes, but he failed. He failed. He failed, and he failed miserably. There was hardly a moment when he even convinced anyone apart from his own groupies that he was advancing. He started badly, and in the main got worse. He must have tried 5 or 6 different approaches in his 15 matches here and not one of them worked.
If he thinks managing Birmingham constitutes "starting at the bottom" and that his "name" had nothing to do with him getting the gig then he's delusional. Birmingham appointing Rooney was a ridiculous decision. It was nepotism, deluded and flew in the face of all the evidence of any previous managerial achievement.
He failed because, whilst at Blues, he made every possible mistake it's possible to make.
Even Zola had the balls to stick to his own ideas .... Rooney seemed to be basing his approach on some lucky-dip-what-we-going-to-try-next fairground lottery.
There was nothing, to me, in his time at Blues that he did well. Nothing at all.
To now turn round - and i listened to the interview just now - and blame
1.. Eustace had done too well
2.. Fans never gave me a chance
3.. Blues are not a stable club
4.. Owners didn't gift him the players he wanted
5.. Planet Mars hadn't entered Aquarius and the moon and the stars weren't aligned
... what a load of old shit.
He should be telling it as it is ....
"i was fecking lucky to get the job considering how shite i've been in every managerial position so far - and i spent 15 matches proving why i'm a shite manager"
Deluded prIck
All of THIS.
Plus, the sheer lack of warmth, the humourlessness, the cliche trotting, the weird power stance + black "suit of armour" - you can argue this is small beer, but it adds up to no-one in their right mind leaning towards him.
And if you think it's just rot, go and watch Rooney and Mowbray's first interviews again. Chalk and cheese. Rooney appears to be in the kitchen of a student hall of residence, horrible edits (some of which are clearly to save him from his mumbling, inarticulate self) and shifting camera angles.
Then you've got Mowbray's first interview - coherent, impassioned, plausible and devoid of cliche. Also filmed properly in a proper environment.
Now Rooney can't help the production values, but, good God...
He stumbles over the names of his own coaching team, everything is cliched drivel. Dispassionate and meaningless. He appears to be anxious to leap into a waiting cab.
He's a dreadful communicator, appears to revel in the anti-intellectual, and he's witless and aloof.
And his managerial record is, somehow, one of diminishing returns even at such a nascent stage.
I'm really glad he's no longer our manager for so many reasons.
