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By johnny the fox, in General Football and Sport

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Basingstoke Fox

Basingstoke Fox

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A few Brighton fans not particularly enamoured with Nigel.

"My first thoughts would be Davies followed by Adkins but after considerable thought it has to be Nigel Pearson. He comes across as an arrogant, smarmy, pompous, self righteous tosser who because of his ever increasing budget and team size, seems to think that his team merely has to turn up to win the points ( granted they are doing so at the moment ) but when they have lost he is not gracious in defeat, to the opposition and when his team wins he has a look of smug superiority that you just want to punch him. So in the smugness/up your own arse stakes, Pearson is the clear winner."

Wow. I really don't think that could be more wrong!

Corky

Corky

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A few Brighton fans not particularly enamoured with Nigel.

 

"My first thoughts would be Davies followed by Adkins but after considerable thought it has to be Nigel Pearson. He comes across as an arrogant, smarmy, pompous, self righteous tosser who because of his ever increasing budget and team size, seems to think that his team merely has to turn up to win the points ( granted they are doing so at the moment ) but when they have lost he is not gracious in defeat, to the opposition and when his team wins he has a look of smug superiority that you just want to punch him. So in the smugness/up your own arse stakes, Pearson is the clear winner."

 

lol How ill-informed is that? Pearson is forever telling us to respect the opposition and actually works with less money than the previous managers at clubs. He didn't even slag Watford off for their gamesmanship last month, just praised them for their effort.

 

He must have Nige mixed up with someone else.

Vlad the Fox

Vlad the Fox

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'Clough said he could walk on the Trent but Davies seems intent on polluting it

Writing about Billy Davies is never particularly easy when his default setting is that the media are somehow out to get him. On the contrary, the football writers I know cherish their times beside the Trent, in keeping with the popular perception of Nottingham Forest back in the day. They are my team and, growing up in the Clough years, there was always a certain pride they were so many people's "second club".

It is certainly not easy seeing words such as "unpleasant" and "paranoid" routinely attached to the old place. Unfortunately, this seems to be the Davies way. Clough used to say he could walk on the Trent. Davies appears intent on polluting it and the saddest thing of all is that it is all so utterly needless and distractive when he is certainly not the worst manager at the City Ground, post-Clough.

He has just been banned from the dugout for five games after confronting the referee Anthony Taylor at half‑time during the 2-2 draw against Leicester. He later complained he had been sent to the stand for merely "raising my voice". What actually happened was Davies deliberately barged into the referee, and swore at him repeatedly. For "deliberately making contact" he was lucky the punishment was not more severe.

Most managers would issue an apology. Instead, Davies put out his response on Friday. "Under the advice of my legal team I will not be conducting any interviews until 26 March."

This is actually in keeping with a season of strange goings-on behind the scenes at the City Ground, featuring media blackouts, unexplained sackings and so much political manoeuvring that the Football League's chief executive, Shaun Harvey, went above Davies's head and asked for a meeting with the club's owner, Fawaz Al-Hasawi, in December to address issues facing the club.

It is certainly an odd carry-on when Davies's usual solicitor, Jim Price, happens to be his cousin and his agent, and has been working in a very senior position for Forest, despite failing the relevant fit-and-proper-person tests because he is currently suspended from the legal profession.

In Davies's first spell at the club, Price infuriated the old regime by advertising his availability for new jobs. He has attracted derision on Twitter but it is when Davies logs on to the same account that things get really interesting. "It's about payback," one message read. "Vengeance is best served cold. Trust me the innocent will not be harmed." Another Championship club's chief executive was quoted in the Daily Telegraph recently referring to Forest as "the Midlands version of North Korea".

Earlier in the season, Davies saw a photographer aiming his lens at the Forest dugout during a game at Millwall and marched over to the 18-yard line to confront him, repeatedly shouting: "Where are you from?" in his face. Stewards eventually had to get involved. The photographer was a freelance and covering the match, in part, for the Forest programme.

Davies is a reasonable Championship manager – sometimes very good, sometimes flawed – and, judging by the amount of money Hasawi has thrown at them, the club expect promotion. It fills me with a mixture of joy and dread. The spotlight burns a lot more brightly in the Premier League and, at this rate, the reputation of a fine club is nose‑diving as the team, potentially, go up. It makes no sense and if saying that makes me part of a media agenda, it is something with which I can live. There are no apologies for thinking it is better to operate with a measure of class, in the old traditions of the club.'

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/mar/08/football-association-fa-england-under-20s-steven-gerrard

The story is halfway down the page, after the one about the FA teaching our kids to hoof the ball. I've always said davies was looks like he's on the edge of insanity, I think he is finally losing it, and the North Korea reference is one I've liked them to before. I'm sure I also read somewhere that he had someone film a reporter interviewing him once in a proper crackpot scientology way once. The bloke is making it harder and harder for himself to stay in a job and unfortunately for him this time the owner is more popular than he is as more and more fans turn against him. But surely eventually when he does get the push he will be finished, who will employ him? The desperate? Lower league clubs thinking they're getting a top manager? What owner would want to deal with him?

Fox92

Fox92

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https://twitter.com/SallyHegarty/status/442355191342702592

Doesn't like having his picture taken. Where are they playing next? Someone get on their message boards and get hundreds taking his picture, he'll go ****ing berserk. lol

 

 

lol 

 

 

Hey @SallyHegarty Please dinnae take ma photo again. Am too feckin paranoid, um, I mean beautiful for ya camera. Nae offence babe #nffc

Happy Fox

Happy Fox

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2577876/CHARLES-SALE-Leeds-United-owners-silent-treatment-managing-director-David-Haigh-stops-contact-GFH-Massimo-Cellino-waits-takeover.html

 

 

Nottingham Forest, neck and neck with Leeds to be the most dysfunctional club in the Championship, are understood to have parted company with head of recruitment Bobby Downes via voicemail. 

Downes found out he was leaving after listening to a message left by the financial department. As per usual, Forest’s ‘spokesman’ did not return calls.

 

 

lol

lancyclaret

lancyclaret

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Three weeks ago a lot of Forest fans were arrogantly claiming a Wembley trip in the FA Cup and automatic promotions was a virtual formality.

 

Four defeats and a draw later they won't be going to Wembley in the FA Cup and those arrogant fans are beginning to worry they won't even make the play-offs.

 

If that proves the case, it will be a disgrace the amount of money they have spent on players since last summer.

Bob Weasel Fox

Bob Weasel Fox

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Three weeks ago a lot of Forest fans were arrogantly claiming a Wembley trip in the FA Cup and automatic promotions was a virtual formality.

Four defeats and a draw later they won't be going to Wembley in the FA Cup and those arrogant fans are beginning to worry they won't even make the play-offs.

If that proves the case, it will be a disgrace the amount of money they have spent on players since last summer.

Totally agree Lancy
Famous Team

Famous Team

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Three weeks ago a lot of Forest fans were arrogantly claiming a Wembley trip in the FA Cup and automatic promotions was a virtual formality.

 

Four defeats and a draw later they won't be going to Wembley in the FA Cup and those arrogant fans are beginning to worry they won't even make the play-offs.

 

If that proves the case, it will be a disgrace the amount of money they have spent on players since last summer.

Three weeks ago most Forest fans thought we were in with a very realistic shout at automatic promotion, I don't know of any who thought it was a virtual formality.

 

Can't disagree with the rest of what you put though.....

Dan

Dan

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Is he the most disliked manager in the championship, do you think?

 

I'd say so now. I've seen plenty of neutrals slagging him off now. I've either never noticed how much of a dick he is or he's seriously turned into one. I'd say there's no manager I dislike more currently.

Fox92

Fox92

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Clear handball and blatant cheating by Henderson to score Forests equaliser at Middlesbore the other night, he actually pushed the ball in with his hand.

 

No comment. Anyone remember when Dickov 'palmed' it in at 'Boro in our 3-3 draw? lol

Dan

Dan

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A few Brighton fans not particularly enamoured with Nigel.

 

"My first thoughts would be Davies followed by Adkins but after considerable thought it has to be Nigel Pearson. He comes across as an arrogant, smarmy, pompous, self righteous tosser who because of his ever increasing budget and team size, seems to think that his team merely has to turn up to win the points ( granted they are doing so at the moment ) but when they have lost he is not gracious in defeat, to the opposition and when his team wins he has a look of smug superiority that you just want to punch him. So in the smugness/up your own arse stakes, Pearson is the clear winner."

 

Bloody hell. Sublime ignorance.

Dan

Dan

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I think he puts it on to troll opposition fans.

 

Pochettino is the best at doing that. Pretends he can't speak English... the amount of stick he gets for it is fantastic. It's making him my favourite manager in the world.

davieG

davieG

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Nottingham Forest manager Billy Davies has lodged an appeal against a three-match touchline ban imposed on him by an Independent Regulatory Commission, following an incident of misconduct in relation to his side’s game against Leicester City on 19 February 2014.

Davies has already served a two-match touchline ban after admitting one charge of misconduct for using abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour towards the Match Referee after the fixture. 

However, he has appealed against the Independent Regulatory Commission’s decision that he also deliberately made contact with the Match Referee following the fixture, which amounted to improper conduct.

An Appeal Board will convene on Wednesday 19 March 2014 to consider the appeal.

His three-match touchline ban has been stayed until the outcome of the appeal and Davies will, therefore, be eligible to return to the touchline for Forest’s fixture against Doncaster Rovers this Saturday [15 March 2014].

Read more at http://www.thefa.com//news/governance/2014/mar/billy-davies-140314?#liCKG7UY53Gr6pm5.99

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