I decided not to post about Peter Jackson's sacking till we replaced him. I liked Jacko, when he came in we were cut adrift at the bottom of the table and staring relegation in the face. He was a breath of fresh air and just what was needed at the time. Not only did he keep us up but he also won an even bigger battle with throat cancer.
Many feel he hyped up our chances too much before the 2008/09 seson but look at it this way, how can you not have a positive outlook when you have lead the club to safety and beaten cancer? Surely anybody would feel they could take on the world after that. Some say he made bad signings, maybe so, but so do most league two managers. Look at big Keith when he was here for every 5 signings he made, one would be good, one ok and three crap. OK we didnt set the league alight but we were soild in midtable.
Looking back it was probably the 5-1 defeat at Grimsby that was the beginning of the end for Jacko and it is sad that Jacko never got us a win in the Lincolnshire derby.
Jacko is a people's man as he demonstrated, both when we meet him at a pre season game at Retford United, and on the pre season tour in Germany. Good luck for the future Jacko i would have given you a bit longer to turn it around; it is just a sad sign of the way football is going now
Its Chris Sutton!!
Thankfully the board didnt go with Gary Brabin for the job. I am sure he did a decent job for Cambridge when playing the likes of Forest green and Lewes but league two is a bit different plus the budget here isnt as big as the one he had at Cambridge.
To say Chris Sutton was a suprise is a bit of an understatment. He has never been a manager before but, as he said himself, everbody has to start somewhere. We went with experience when we appointed Alan Buckley and Peter Jackson and it didnt work out.
Up until the 94-95 season when I was at school, before I got into following live football, I supported Norwich City for a few reasons.
1)They had a bright yellow kit
2)nobody else supported them at school
3)They were rather good
For me this was the best era for the Premier league, Manchester united were still the team to beat but there was none of this big four crap there is now. Norwich finished 3rd in 93/94 and had a great run in the UEFA cup the following year. They regularly beat the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea (who were nothing more than a midtable team at best)
One of Norwichs best results was winning at Liverpool on the last day of the season in front of the old kop on its last day before it was demolished. That was a great day at school the following monday as i could wind up all the liverpool fans about it.
Chris sutton was the main man for Norwich then. Manchester united had Cantona, Arsenal had Wright, Blackburn had Shearer and Norwich had Sutton! For a while he was the best young striker in England and my favorite player behind Bryan Gunn and Vinnie jones of Wimbledon. I was gutted when Blackburn bought him in the 94-95 season and he scored against Norwich at Carrow road as they were relegated.
Blackburn won the league.
Chris has been a winner more or less everywhere he has been; League winners medals in England and Scotland, played in European finals, etc, etc. So if the likes of Scot kerr start gobbing off i hope he reminds them who they are talking to! He has many contacts and has been doing some coaching at Fulham under one of the best English managers we have had over the past 10-15 years in Roy Hodgson, so he has plenty of contacts to fall back on and to ask advice from including Martin o neil.
GOOD LUCK CHRIS!!!!!!!!! heres some of his goals!
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