Spandex Sidney 9:49 Wed Feb 17
Well done Lou Macari!
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Clearly a top fella
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1yNNxC7w0C1Dgc3vjZNtY9Y/the-former-footballer-who-set-up-a-homeless-shelter-i-thought-surely-we-can-do-better-than-this
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Takashi Miike
9:52 Wed Feb 17
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yes, top bloke and bought some of my favourite west ham players
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gank
11:46 Wed Feb 17
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Bet against his own team. Yeah, top bloke!
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charlie paynter
11:53 Wed Feb 17
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What a great story. Respect to Lou.
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normannomates
12:03 Wed Feb 17
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Good man is Lou Macari.
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Takashi Miike
12:07 Wed Feb 17
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he paid a price for what ever he did at swindon, I'm talking what he's done for homeless people so fuck off with your preaching, you silly cunt
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normannomates
12:10 Wed Feb 17
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Miike
LUDO AND BISH FOR STARTERS..
NEVER STOOD A PRAYER FOLLOWIING JOHN..
BUT HE MADE HIS MARK WITH MOST OF HIS SIGNINGS..
TOP BLOKE.. I WISH HIM WELL
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gank
12:12 Wed Feb 17
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Proper Catholic outlook on life you have there, Miike.
Jimmy Saville did a lot for charity, forget his previous wrongdoings. Top bloke!
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Vexed
12:13 Wed Feb 17
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I DONT FUCKING CARE ABOUT NORTHERNERS IN SHEDS - FUCK OFF MACARI YOU WEIRD LOOKING CUNT
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Sven Roeder
12:19 Wed Feb 17
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I'm guessing his betting thing was common place. Along with brown paper bags to let transfers happen
They were in a cup game and obviously would have made money from the next round. The bet was against Swindon so if they lost the club still got a windfall
He is a good guy trying to do good things.
Enjoyed the show Marvellous with Toby Jones which shows how Macari gave Harry Kane his start in football by making him kit man at Stoke,
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Takashi Miike
12:23 Wed Feb 17
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no, not mentioned religion or saville. you're a bit of a dope, aren't you gank? let's hope your never in trouble and in need of help
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southbankbornnbred
12:30 Wed Feb 17
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I won't bang on about it, as I'll sound like a scratched record, but football barely scratched the surface of what Swindon - and other clubs (including top managers and execs) - were doing in terms of dodginess back in the day.
Macari walked from the criminal court case, of course. Got done by the FA for something else: the bet against his own club. But the sport was rife with far deeper corruption issues at the time, and the FA in its "sweep it under the carpet" wisdom just decided to, well, sweep it under the carpet.
Macari was symptomatic of what was going on. He was by no means leading the charge.
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normannomates
12:58 Wed Feb 17
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VEXED 12.13.
GISSA JOB.
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normannomates
1:08 Wed Feb 17
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Is Gank tettering on a the plank?
Is spotter Gank?
is Gank having a Dump at spotters expense?
Fook news is metalwork on a Friday afternoon.
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Hammer-ed
6:02 Wed Feb 17
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Have respect for the guy ever since his son killed himself when Notts Forest released from his youth contract over 20 years, thinking that he was a failure!
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Spandex Sidney
7:58 Wed Feb 17
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Honestly judging the man's life on a naughty bet he placed 35 years ago when he's now doing things like this just makes you look like a cunt. But we aren't short of them on here.
First manager that had no West Ham connections, I remember being excited at the prospect and disappointed when he left but I was only 17 at the time and I'm nearly 49 now.
Looking it up, it's actually 31 years to the day tomorrow that he left us. Didn't have long to show us what he had but surely we must love him for signing Ludo, Martin Allen and Mr and Mrs Morley-Bishop?
Top bloke and this has gone under the radar as he opened up this homeless place 5 years ago
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chim chim cha boo
8:10 Wed Feb 17
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I remember being excited at his appointment too. I can't remember who said it but one of the players back then complained to the newspapers about all the running training they had to do.
God forbid our sometimes very pub-team-ish club had to run around a bit. Maybe if he'd stayed a bit longer I wouldn't have to had endured (with notable exceptions) the following 30 years of a great day out marred by 90 minutes of football?
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southbankbornnbred
8:30 Wed Feb 17
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Hmm, a few rose-tinted specs when it comes to Macari.
He's obviously a half-decent fella. But he was a quite poor football manager - we were awful under him at times. Sure, he made some excellent signings. But the fact that he was not a great manager is highlighted by what happened to his career when he left West Ham.
He didn't exactly rip up any trees anywhere else. Had one decent season at Stoke in the lower leagues. He was poor everywhere else, including stints at Celtic, Birmingham, Stoke (again) and Huddersfield.
Had he been that talented a manager, he'd have got it right somewhere else (other than cheating Swindon, who were paying massively and illegally through the nose - Macari says unbeknown to him - in the lower leagues).
He's obviously a half-decent fella - as his anti-homeless initiatives show. And he clearly has an eye for a good player. Sounds like he would have been a better chief scout than a manager.
But he would not have been a better manager than Bonds or Redknapp had we kept him. People might not like Harry's wheeler-dealer style and made-up nonsense about his overthrow of Billy, but he was a significantly better manager than Macari - and he proved it at several clubs.
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southbankbornnbred
8:35 Wed Feb 17
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To reiterate, we were 10th in the Championship when we parted company with Macari.
The 30th best team in the country.
Forgive me if I don't remember him too fondly.
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southbankbornnbred
8:37 Wed Feb 17
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We also got dumped out of the cup by Torquay.
Torquay.
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chim chim cha boo
9:33 Wed Feb 17
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Dumped out of a cup by a minnow like Torquay?
Thank fuck we learned our lessons from that and were never on the other end of a cup upset ever again, eh?
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