Post Match Pint Archives for December 2011

Ridsdale wastes no time in swinging the axe

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Preston chairman has wasted no time in stamping his authority in club, sacking the club's manager Phil Brown barely a week in the job.
Brown took over the Lancashire club last January and was immediately plunged into a relegation battle.
Those who bet on the Championship certainly fancied Brown's men to lose their fight against the drop, which they duly did, given the desperate nature of the situation it did not reflect poorly on Brown.

Dalglish uses DVD to point out ref failings

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Manager's moaning about referee's is nothing new, it has always gone and probably will always go on. But Kenny Dalglish took things to another level by playing a DVD during his weekly press conference to point out examples of where his club were hard done by against Fulham last Monday.
The game, which the Red eventually lost 1-0, also landed Liverpool in trouble with the FA after Luis Suarez was charge after giving the Fulham fans the finger, while the club was charged for failing to control their players after they surrounded referee Kevin Friend following Jay Spearing's dismissal.

Bruce goes, Kean surely next?

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So Steve Kean at least avoided the ignominy of becoming the Premier League's first coach to be sacked thi season. Poor old Steve Bruce has taken that title for him.
But with Rovers propping up the rest of the division and slung out of the Carling Cup by Cardiff in midweek, most managers in Kean's position would be nervously awaiting a phone call from the chairman.

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