Results for tag: Steve Kean
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 25, 2010 at 04:49:56 PM
[b]Following the news that Steve Kean will be in charge of Blackburn at least until the end of the season, Max Liu profiles five Premier League bosses the Venky's Group will be hoping their man can surpass...[/b]
In politics there was Lyndon Johnson, George Bush Senior, Gordon Brown and many more. In football management the list of second lieutenants who have failed when the number one job finally came their way is even longer. Frequently described as "real football men" by those within the game, these characters come to their roles with a backroom steeliness about the eyes but soon look lost and feckless on the touchline before leaving the club after less than a year. With Kean, 1.3 to get the job on a permanent basis, here are five number two's who became number one's whom he will...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 20, 2010 at 04:26:49 PM
Saturday was not a great day. It began when I woke up early, put on the telly, and saw the cricket score. Having written that Australia couldn't possibly take 20 wickets, and backed my belief with hard cash by laying the Aussies for the Perth Test,[b] Mitchell Johnson[/b] had turned the whole Ashes series on its head. What's more, I'd broken one of my normal golden rules of gambling and not "gone green" when I had the opportunity 24 hours earlier.
Next I spent five hours stuck in snow on the M5. I was two miles from the next junction when I heard that Birmingham's game with Newcastle was off, and it took forever before I could get there and turn round to go back home again. The wait wasn't helped, as a boyhood[b] West Ham[/b] fan, by listening to them struggling along at Blackburn.
I...