TooManyPies Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Chinese national football team almost appointed Fu Bo before plumping for Alain Perrin. Thought they were gonna ego for wan king? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Was Stubbs not meant to be our manager when McCall got it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desp Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Was Stubbs not meant to be our manager when McCall got it? Yeah, I remember plenty of rumours going around about Stubbs after Craig Brown had left. I can't say i'm too dissappointed that we ended up with McCall though. Lawrie Sanchez was on the 3-man shortlist for the 'Well job (not long after he got the tin tack from Fulham I believe) along with Gannon and Aidy Boothroyd. We got the fruitcake Gannon. I'm kinda looking forward to when we have to look for a new boss again. Some of the rumours that fly about are brilliant. Edit; Also, Gary McAllister has been linked with the Motherwell job everytime it's been on the go for the last 10 years. He'll get it one day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csteinle Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 I remember a lot of excitement when it was thought that the Kilmarnock job, vacated by Jimmy Calderwood, was going to go to former World Cup winner Thomas Hassler. It didn't...it went to Mixu Paatelainen - and quite right too I once got a lift home from big Mixu back to Edinburgh when he was playing with Saints. Spent the whole journey wondering what to say to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 After Dundee had just sacked Jocky during his third spell as manager, we struggled to gain permission to speak to Gordon Chisholm who was the man Melville wanted in. Ian McCall was the other favourite for the job and verbally agreed over the phone to takeover. As he was making his way from Glasgow to Dundee to officially sign the deal and be formally announced he received a text saying something like, 'Gordon Chisholm's just been announced as Dundee's manager'. I can imagine his anger, and I love every second of it. Safe to say the game away against Partick Thistle that followed a short while later looked like a tense one for the two former friends in the dugouts. ETA: That's how the story goes anyway, McCall denied it later on and said it would have took something extraordinary to leave Partick but I really hope it is true. And indeed it did take something extraordinary for him to leave Thistle whdn he resigned and hasnt had a job since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Aitken's Love Child Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Paul Gascoigne has applied for the Morton job on a couple of occasions as far as I am aware, but I don't think he was ever given an interview. Even Douglas Rae wouldn't be that stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LossieDee Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 No surprise you once again have a shite comeback Telt ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarraJag Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Telt ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebbes20silkcut Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 I still look forward to the day Eric Black is appointed Aberdeen boss, I believe he was approached before Alex Miller was appointed but had just taken over from Gary McAllister at Coventry after his late wife's illness, He has said himself that he has been close on a few occasions but I suppose the money he was on in England would make him out of our reach, But I have always said he is the best manager we have yet to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Steve Clarke could and should have been the manager instead of Calderwood if we paid just that little bit extra for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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