accessory Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Former Champions League winner Paul Lambert applied for the manager's post at Leicester in June 2008, it was revealed last night. Lambert, currently manager of Norwich City, was unemployed at the time, resigning from previous club Wycombe after League 2 playoff failure the previous month. The vacancy at the Foxes arose following the club's relegation to League 1 and the subsequent dismissal of boss Ian Holloway. Lambert's interest in the vacancy was announced by BBC Leicester reporter Ian Stringer, a former correspondent for clubs in the Thames Valley. He issued the following statement on his Twitter page. got to know him really well at Wycombe. Banter flies, very sarcastic+dry. Applied for #lcfc job when Ollie left, no reply, oops City, under the ownership of Milan Mandaric at that time, eventually appointed Nigel Pearson as the replacement for Holloway. He is in now in his second spell at the club. Meanwhile Lambert, after a season at Colchester, has guided the Canaries from the lower reaches of League One to the top ten of the Premier League. He was unavailable for comment on this story.
Guest Col city fan Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Whoops!! I reckon Lambert could even be the next Manager of Man Utd... He has a certain air of calm about him.. Just quietly oozes self confidence Who cares though, we've got Pearson...
ithuriel Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Makes no difference, Mandy would have got rid most probably if he had come here and had any success just like he was levering Pearson out for Soussa. Bit of a pointless non story to be honest and one just to stir up more divisive arguing God, i can already imagine it in five pages time.
Kitchandro Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Makes no difference, Mandy would have got rid most probably if he had come here and had any success just like he was leavering Pearson out for Soussa. Bit of a pointless non story to be honest and one just to stir up more divisive arguing Exactly. Pearson did an unbelievable job the first time around and was undoubtedly the right appointment. You couldn't predict Lambert would be where he is now.
Guest Basildon Fox Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 What is the point of Stringer raking this up though? Did he need suggest that we missed out big time just because he gets on with him? Pearson did a fantastic job first time round. Would not have changed it for the world. Revitalised my support for the club. MM should never have got rid of him in the first place(I realise he walked before somone adds this but he definitely jumped before he was pushed). I just hope he can revitalise the club again as we are in danger of drifting through the rest of the season without drastic improvement.
Antonio85 Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Is it just me or is he similar to O Neil? Just reminds me of a young o neil
cc_star Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 What was his record at the time? NP did everything he was to paid to do in that spell anyway, and who knows if NP had continued and if it weren't for Hoos, Manderic & Sousa we could have been in the Prem instead of them
Libertine Dream Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Didnt we already know this. Big mistake but then he may not have been successful and we may not have the owners we have now. Things happen for a reason
accessory Posted 3 January 2012 Author Posted 3 January 2012 Is it just me or is he similar to O Neil? Just reminds me of a young o neil Someone else mentioned that on Twitter, suggesting he's taken Norwich to where they would have been if MON had stayed there. In fairness to Mandaric though, there was nothing in his record at the time to indicate the success he would later enjoy. MON (and later, even Peter Taylor) led Wycombe to promotion. Lambert didn't. Not quite sure why Stringer has chosen to break this story now, and in this way.
Basingstoke Fox Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Who's to say that Lambert would've achieved what he's achieved at Norwich at Leicester? He may have had a poor first half of the season, been sacked and then where would we have been? I doubt he could've done a better job than Pearson personnally.
Dan Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 If it had said "June 2010" I'd have been a thousand times more pissed off.
EnderbyFox Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Doesn't really annoy me to be honest, we achieved pretty much all we could during Pearsons first spell, had we have gone up in the play-off season- i believe we most certainly would have come straight back down.
dave_the_fox Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Nobody wanted him at the time because of colchesters "goals for" column was so low
Bert Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 If Pearson had've stayed here I'm gonna go as far as saying we'd be in the prem now.
jonlcfc1990 Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Total non story why are people always bringing up the past and past decisions "oh we could of had him" could of should of would of. NP saved us in league 1 and kept us in the championship and if it wasn't for a few dodgy decisions in Cardiff and mr Yann we COULD of and SHOULD of gone up to the premier league. Let's start looking forward instead of lurking in the past
norfolkfox222 Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 This hurts. everything about him i want to like, but i cant because i hate, hate, hate Norwich city fc and all there gloating fans. its a horrid time to live in Norfolk
Head Honcho Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Can we just a have new rule on here? A complete ban on all Stringer related material...................nothing he ever says is significant anyway. So why bother?
demon_dog Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 A complete non story. Ok so we turned down Lambert and many others who applied for the job, so what? Is this just Stringers way of trying to wind up NP even more. We all get a jist of NP's opinion of Stringer, so why make things worse?
jonlcfc1990 Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 A complete non story. Ok so we turned down Lambert and many others who applied for the job, so what? Is this just Stringers way of trying to wind up NP even more. We all get a jist of NP's opinion of Stringer, so why make things worse? hopefully this does make things worse and Nigel bans him
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 If Pearson had've stayed here I'm gonna go as far as saying we'd be in the prem now. For once I agree with you. Lambert has done really well but dont think he could have done any better than NP in his first spell. When we made the PO's the league was much harder than when Norwich got second, it didnt have a Newcastle or a WBA in it, though that is nothing against his achivement with Norwich as he is an outstanding manager.
samlcfc! Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 People are reading this wrong... If you go on twitter and look at Stringer's page, and look who he sent it too (Arlo White), you'd understand he's not just released it. @ArloWhite put Paul Lambert appears awfully dour in interviews So Stringer just replied what he knew about him from interviewing him previous times... Its a non story, and who's to say if Lambert came that we'd be in the Championship now? For all you know, we could be sat in league 1 still!
Corky Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 He might've been a disaster here, you just don't know. Pearson did nearly as well as Lambert did in his first two seasons. And anyway, as I said elsewhere, if Colchester had won 1-0 at Norwich instead of 7-1 would the Norwich board have been that impressed? It's three-and-a-half years since this took place so there's no point regretting anything.
Danny the Fox 95 Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 He's the new MON, he's been at Wycombe like MON, managing Norwich like MON did, and hopefully will ditch Norwich for Leicester like MON did!
Happy Fox Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 He's the new MON, he's been at Wycombe like MON, managing Norwich like MON did, and hopefully will ditch Norwich for Leicester like MON did! You never know hey History repeating itself, and then Lambert leaves us for Celtic his "boyhood club"
dave the caveman Posted 3 January 2012 Posted 3 January 2012 Is this even a published article or did the op write it himself. Who cares? I don't. We've got enough to worry about already without thinking about some fanciful notions of what might have been
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