Former Player Remembers: Mike Newell

[davieG]

https://www.lcfc.com/news/916522/former-player-remembers-mike-newell/featured

[Fox92]

Always remember wanting him to become manager here when he was doing well with Luton (think they were a Championship club, like ourselves, at that point too).

[dayday]

I thought he was a very good player, enjoyed watching him.

[Heathrow fox]

Would probably do well in today’s game aswell

[TrentFox]

He was a very good player, indeed. Could do with a version of him today! 

[Tringfox]

I can remember him very well at Belvoir Drive when I was a kid with Leicester Boys, he was super fit and back then the players went for long runs I can remember him being miles ahead of everyone!

[winteriscoming]

Don't remember him playing for us. Do remember him playing for blackburn in the play off final in 92. Looked good for them. 

[Soar Fox]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

Always remember wanting him to become manager here when he was doing well with Luton (think they were a Championship club, like ourselves, at that point too).

Same here. Must have been about 2005/6ish that I wanted him as manager.

 

I remember them coming down here and beating us 0-2, they had some good young players back then.

[Corky]

3 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Always remember wanting him to become manager here when he was doing well with Luton (think they were a Championship club, like ourselves, at that point too).

Thank God those days are behind us.

[Stevosevic]

What happened to his managerial career?

 

Was very highly rated at Luton.

[Vlad the Fox]

9 hours ago, Stevosevic said:

What happened to his managerial career?

 

Was very highly rated at Luton.

I was a decent manager, he spoke out against some form of corruption in the game (can't remember what). As a result no one hired him, probably proving that he was right.

 

We used to interview players for the school magazine, basically just a ruse to get out of school for the morning and go and watch them train, I can remember him taking the piss out of my mates for for a crap pass back to him when the ball went behind one of the goals.  

[mancunianfox]

30 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

I was a decent manager, he spoke out against some form of corruption in the game (can't remember what). As a result no one hired him, probably proving that he was right.

 

We used to interview players for the school magazine, basically just a ruse to get out of school for the morning and go and watch them train, I can remember him taking the piss out of my mates for for a crap pass back to him when the ball went behind one of the goals.  

It was regarding dodgy transfer dealings that led to the Lord Stevens enquiry which tabbed Big Sam and his son, Harry Redknapp, Milan Mandaric and others. Nothing really major came of it if I remember. Newell got a job at Grimsby after Luton but didn't really do much.

[The Doctor]

On 22/11/2018 at 08:33, Vlad the Fox said:

I was a decent manager, he spoke out against some form of corruption in the game (can't remember what). As a result no one hired him, probably proving that he was right.

 

I thought that was after he left Luton? While at Luton he got destroyed for basically being Keys before Keys had happened and moaning that a lineswoman they had needed to get back in the kitchen because of an offside decision

[Vlad the Fox]

2 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

I thought that was after he left Luton? While at Luton he got destroyed for basically being Keys before Keys had happened and moaning that a lineswoman they had needed to get back in the kitchen because of an offside decision

 can't remember that, sounds like a modern man.

 

It may well have been, my memory is a bit sketchy, I can just remember something along the lines that he spoke out against something and when he lost the job he was in he seemed to quickly drop of the managerial circuit. 

[The Doctor]

1 minute ago, Vlad the Fox said:

 can't remember that, sounds like a modern man.

 

It may well have been, my memory is a bit sketchy, I can just remember something along the lines that he spoke out against something and when he lost the job he was in he seemed to quickly drop of the managerial circuit. 

Messed up the order, the sexism was after the bungs claim: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/nov/12/football.gender

 

She should not be here, I know that sounds sexist, but I am sexist, so I am not going to be anything other than that. 

 

interesting defence