I have lifted the following from a post on the Glynne Jones list, but I thought that it merited a wider audience:
Curbs and Robert Lee were the guests on 'Goals on Sunday' on SS1 this am and there was a reasonable chunk of discussion on us and our current plight.
Apart from tongue in cheek stuff on why we haven't named a stand after Robert (Curbs also suggested Lee Bowyer!), Curbs clarified why he left us as he did (need for a rest, it was the time to go, "some people apparently thought finishing mid table in the Prem was boring" (who could he have been thinking of?) and Richard Murray wanted me to extend the contract for 3 years etc). His parting shot was that it was a mutual decision and that the club had the summer to find someone to take the club forward...
Of particular interest was Curbs view that going up to the Prem and then coming straight down is not a problem but going up and staying there for 3 or 4 years is, because you need to invest to stay there, fans want you to grow but you get left with players on big contracts, you have to sell and you have a large turnover of players.
Nothing on Pardew himself -in fact I don't think he was ever mentioned although there was extended highlights of the yesterday's games. Both Robert and Curbs wanted to see us 'higher up the league" and Curbs did not rule us returning to the Prem - "look at Hull" was pretty much his view.
Both were very relaxed and there were some good clips of Robert with us and some decent and generous reflection on time with the club for Curbs
2 comments:
Good Luck to Curbs in whatever he does. He certainly doesn't need to work and I guess Charlton rebuilding would not feature high in his priority now.
Oh what I'd give for boring mid-table premiership football over an exciting championship relegation dogfight!
Curbs was magnificent for us and proves the old adage that you don't appreciate what you have until it has gone.
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