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.
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.
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.