Your Most Hated/Disliked PL Manager.

Moriarty said:
His Leeds teams were both great footballing sides and a bunch of cheating thugs. Every dirty trick in the book was played at one time or another by them. I first saw them at Old Trafford in December 1964 in a brutal game. My dad, normally mild-mannered, was swearing and shouting at them. According to Peter Lorimer, Revie encouraged his players to con referees and dive in the box. Then there were the bribes. Revie met Alan Ball, then with Blackpool, and offered him money to reject Everton and come to Leeds. He made Blackpool an offer for Tony Green but their manager, Bob Stokoe, refused to deal with Revie. Bill Shankly later confirmed that Stokoe, when he managed Bury, was offered £500 - a lot of money then - to go easy on his Leeds team then fighting relegation in the 2nd Division. Stokoe wanted nothing to do with Revie after that and it showed when his Sunderland team played Leeds at Wembley in 1973. Stokoe could barely look at Revie.

The cup semi-final in 1965 resembled the Battle of Agincourt. Same in 1970 when Leeds kicked any red shirt they could see. In the final, they were up against a Chelsea team that could dish it out too as well as play football. Leeds' dirty tricks failed them that night and again against Celtic in 1969 when Jock Stein had Revie's team beaten all ends up in both legs.

This is just scratching the surface. His Leeds team would march onto the pitch, line up in the centre-circle, then wave to everyone in the ground. They seemed to delight in stirring up hate and they got it from us in spades.
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Seems to have been quite the character, no doubt it contributed to the heated rivalry with Leeds though it seem to have died down with them perennially on the low.
 
It's Arteta by a mile for me. I completely understand hating the likes of Mourinho and Klopp, but they could at least occasionally be funny and charming. There's very little to like about Arteta if you're not supporting Arsenal. Just a really annoying presence and has an uncanny valley look to him that makes him even more off-putting than he already is.

Alan Pardew if we're going a bit further back. Seemed like a total cnut.

Brendan Rodgers would've topped this list if he actually won the league with Liverpool (can you imagine the self-mythologizing if they'd pulled through?), but they choked in hilarious fashion and so in the end he was just easy to laugh at.
 
Guardiola for me, by a long way.

Everywhere he goes, he cheats in some form (except Bayern - unless there's stuff that hasn't come out yet) and he gets lauded for it.

People have the cheek to say that he's better than Fergie. Last time I checked, Fergie won trophies with Aberdeen - a club not stacked with GOAT players and backed by an entire fecking nation - and he did it without 115 charges of financial fraud.

Guardiola isn't fit to lace Fergie's boots.

I only wish the slimy, cheating little prick was managing his precious City while Fergie was still at the helm. Fergie's mind games would have caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and it would have been glorious.

Feck you, Pep.

Other dishonorable mentions are:

Klopp for almost everything he ever did (though I do respect him)

Conte for his over the top touch line antics

Pardew for his stupid dance in the FA Cup Final

Dalglish for supporting the biting racist

Moyes for being clueless and playing the victim rather than just admitting he deserved to be fired because he wasn't good enough
 
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Superunknown said:
Even without the City factor, it's Pep for me. I didn't like him pre-City either. Something about him is just 'off'. Always seems like he's on something or has something to hide, as if he feels he could be found out at any moment. I find him very squirmy. Klopp doesn't bother me at all, except for the fact he manages Liverpool. Pep is something else, though.
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This 100%.

He gives off the vibe of someone who will end up in jail for life because the authorities found 20 bodies buried under his house.

He absolutely has an off-ness about him, like you say.
 
DarkLord1984 said:
Guardiola for me, by a long way.

Everywhere he goes, he cheats in some form (except Bayern - unless there's stuff that hasn't come out yet) and he gets lauded for it.

People have the cheek to say that he's better than Fergie. Last time I checked, Fergie won trophies with Aberdeen - a club not stacked with GOAT players and backed by an entire fecking nation - and he did it without 115 charges of financial fraud.

Guardiola isn't fit to lace Fergie's boots.

I only wish the slimy, cheating little prick was managing his precious City while Fergie was still at the helm. Fergie's mind games would have caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and it would have been glorious.

Feck you, Pep.

Other dishonorable mentions are:

Klopp for almost everything he ever did (though I do respect him)

Conte for his over the top touch line antics

Pardew for his stupid dance in the FA Cup Final

Dalglish for supporting the biting racist

Moyes for being clueless and playing the victim rather than just admitting he deserved to be fired because he wasn't good enough
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In fairness to Pep, he tried to cheat at Bayern by sending players to Spain for treatment, it's part of the reason why he fell out with their medical team. You had a guy working there since the 70s that quit because of him and returned when he left. Think it was Thiago he rushed back after a trip to Spain to see a doctor and he ended up getting injured again and being out for even longer, think it ended up being a year or so.
 
Oranges038 said:
In fairness to Pep, he tried to cheat at Bayern by sending players to Spain for treatment, it's part of the reason why he fell out with their medical team. You had a guy working there since the 70s that quit because of him and returned when he left. Think it was Thiago he rushed back after a trip to Spain to see a doctor and he ended up getting injured again and being out for even longer, think it ended up being a year or so.
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He just can't help himself. He has to cheat everywhere he goes.

That's why I'll never respect his achievements. He could win the league for the next 10 seasons and I'd still never respect him.
 
Mourinho id say takes the number one spot. Personally I actually like Klopp even after all those years at Liverpool.

Of current managers Arteta is a grade A knob.
 
Easy one these days. PED for his cheating and gloating attitude with his cigars and all that.

But man, I remember when Wenger first came into the PL, I don't exactly remember why now but I hated him so much! As I got older I appreciated him and these days I think he's an absolute legend.
 
Has to be this drama queen



Klopp, not Slot of course. Slot is bald Jesus.
 
Surprised no one mentioned Keegan, he was a fully in the twunts category along with numerous others - Souness/Di Canio/McCarthy/Steve decking Kean all bunch of morons

Keegan takes the biscuit probably along with Dalglish, not just because of his stupid defence of Suarez but before that with Blackburn and Newcastle, just hated the guy (obviously Liverpool too)
 
Currently, just Pep and Arteta, maybe im just salty since they are the best two in the league, but they are very irritating.
 
dazjoe said:
Current - Pep.

All time - Conte, Mourinho, Warnock, Atkinson
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How can anyone dislike Neil Warnock, or Colin to his fans?

The guy is comedy gold.

During the recent spell as manager of Aberdeen his side dropped points following a contentious VAR decision. Asked about the decision on TV our hero replied:


The VAR must have been made by the same mob that supplied those counting machines to the Post Office.

Known as Colin to his admirers because Neil Warnock is an appropriate anagram of an alternative monitor. Clue: The new surname also starts with W.
 
Bartondale said:
How can anyone dislike Neil Warnock, or Colin to his fans?

The guy is comedy gold.

During the recent spell as manager of Aberdeen his side dropped points following a contentious VAR decision. Asked about the decision on TV our hero replied:


The VAR must have been made by the same mob that supplied those counting machines to the Post Office.

Known as Colin to his admirers because Neil Warnock is an appropriate anagram of an alternative monitor. Clue: The new surname also starts with W.
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He's ABU. Still holds a grudge against us for Sheffield United getting relegated in 06/07.
 
It's weird but at this time there isn't a single manager in the Premier League I dislike. A lot of people would say Pep for obvious reasons but on a personal level, he seems very human and down to earth. It's not his fault that his football IQ is higher than everyone else. Some people just have a gift doing certain things and sometimes you just have to hold your hand up and admit they're just better than everyone else. I remember last season when City beat Burnley, and the media was waiting for him for quite some time. His reason was so admirable "Vincent Kompany is more important to me than anyone else here".
 
On the flip side, surely ETH must be the one most liked? I mean, after FA Cup final he won back most of the United fan base, and I can't imagine opposition being unhappy about the fact he's staying. Brighton fans must absolutely adore him for example.
 
DarkLord1984 said:
Guardiola for me, by a long way.

Everywhere he goes, he cheats in some form (except Bayern - unless there's stuff that hasn't come out yet) and he gets lauded for it.

People have the cheek to say that he's better than Fergie. Last time I checked, Fergie won trophies with Aberdeen - a club not stacked with GOAT players and backed by an entire fecking nation - and he did it without 115 charges of financial fraud.

Guardiola isn't fit to lace Fergie's boots.

I only wish the slimy, cheating little prick was managing his precious City while Fergie was still at the helm. Fergie's mind games would have caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and it would have been glorious.

Feck you, Pep.

Other dishonorable mentions are:

Klopp for almost everything he ever did (though I do respect him)

Conte for his over the top touch line antics

Pardew for his stupid dance in the FA Cup Final

Dalglish for supporting the biting racist

Moyes for being clueless and playing the victim rather than just admitting he deserved to be fired because he wasn't good enough
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To be fair to Moyes, he stepped into some really big shoes. It's not his fault that he was handpicked by Fergie and given the huge success of the team when he took over, it was bound to be a nightmare for him if and when results were poor.
 
Il Prete Rosso said:
I disliked the early versions of Mourinho. Today he seems like the guy you wanna hang out with and swap football stories.
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I hated early versions of him but most of all I hated the Man Utd version of him and the followers that worshiped him during that time (and still some today). Hes always been a narcissistic t*at, and just wasn’t a suitable Utd manager on top of that so I couldn’t stand him.
 
TrustInJanuzaj said:
I hated early versions of him but most of all I hated the Man Utd version of him and the followers that worshiped him during that time (and still some today). Hes always been a narcissistic t*at, and just wasn’t a suitable Utd manager on top of that so I couldn’t stand him.
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Agreed, but the worst thing for me was when he accused Stephen Hunt of trying to kill Petr Cech, he as far as I'm aware, never apologized for the outrageous comments he made over that incident
 
Close call between Guardiola and Solskjaer.


it is Solskjaer
 
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Roy Hodgson. Rude man with an ego his CV doesn't back up. Only respected by anyone because he has been around for so long, never won anything and played shit football.
 
DarkLord1984 said:
Guardiola for me, by a long way.

Everywhere he goes, he cheats in some form (except Bayern - unless there's stuff that hasn't come out yet) and he gets lauded for it.

People have the cheek to say that he's better than Fergie. Last time I checked, Fergie won trophies with Aberdeen - a club not stacked with GOAT players and backed by an entire fecking nation - and he did it without 115 charges of financial fraud.

Guardiola isn't fit to lace Fergie's boots.

I only wish the slimy, cheating little prick was managing his precious City while Fergie was still at the helm. Fergie's mind games would have caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and it would have been glorious.

Feck you, Pep.
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DarkLord1984 said:
This 100%.

He gives off the vibe of someone who will end up in jail for life because the authorities found 20 bodies buried under his house.

He absolutely has an off-ness about him, like you say.
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couldn't have said it any better. Dude can go step on legos.
 
Arteta for sure. Can't think of anyone else currently in the PL, tbh.
 
Precaution said:
Surprised no one mentioned Keegan, he was a fully in the twunts category along with numerous others - Souness/Di Canio/McCarthy/Steve decking Kean all bunch of morons

Keegan takes the biscuit probably along with Dalglish, not just because of his stupid defence of Suarez but before that with Blackburn and Newcastle, just hated the guy (obviously Liverpool too)
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Oh yes! Keegan was a bellend of the highest order. The press would fawn over him wherever he went. When he was playing, I think it was Jimmy Hill that said he was a better player than Best. In 1996, the papers went overboard about the barcodes and how they were showing United how football should be played. Then came the meltdown and Eric's goal and he broke apart. Such a fragile man.
 
loads of the spaniards are annoying - lopetegui, arteta, guardiola obviously. Maybe its a cultural thing in football there. Marco Silva is also insufferable on the touchline
 
Honestly, there isn't one who I wouldn't say I like at the moment. There are a lot of very likable characters!
 
SER19 said:
loads of the spaniards are annoying - lopetegui, arteta, guardiola obviously. Maybe its a cultural thing in football there. Marco Silva is also insufferable on the touchline
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Ye I feel the Spanish have a stubbornness and cockiness about them.
 
TrustInJanuzaj said:
Mourinho id say takes the number one spot. Personally I actually like Klopp even after all those years at Liverpool.

Of current managers Arteta is a grade A knob.
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Jose at least had a bit of personality and charisma about him. The sort of manager you loved to hate or hated to love.

Arteta and Pep are just soulless in comparison. Yes Klopp was a bit of a moaner but he was likeable too and again charming unlike the former two.

And with Jurgen and Jose at least both of them built their managerial careers from the ground up. Pep and Arteta have had much easier roads into management and heavily backed wherever they've been.
 
DJ_21 said:
Ye I feel the Spanish have a stubbornness and cockiness about them.
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cant think of many that dont spend the entire game theatrically influencing the refs. utter hysterics and indignation all the time
 
DJ_21 said:
Nothing to hate about Solskjær. One of the most liked people in football.
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Yep one of the good guys. You won't find anyone who's met or knows him that has a bad word to say about Ole. Always has time for fans too.
 
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