There was a time not so long ago when Jackie McNamara was the next big thing in football management. His fall from a pedestal at Dundee United to inglorious resignation this morning at York City came swiftly, precipitated by the loss of three players to Celtic in 2015.
Stuart Armstrong, Gary Mackay-Steven and Nadir Ciftci were brought to Celtic last year by Ronny Deila. Their departure precipitated United’s fall from competitive a SPL club to relegation candidates a few months into last season, costing Jackie his job in October.
As with a lot in football, there’s more Magic Circle than centre circle going on. What you see happen with players distracts the eye from what’s going on behind the scenes. In April 2015 Dundee United went so far as to issue a statement confirming bonuses were payable to their manager on recent transfers. A manager’s contract is none of our business, it’s exceptional that it was made so, but this gives us an insight into what was going on between the McNamara and United at the time.
Jackie was finished at United from that moment, not that he was blameless. In a few years he took a club brimming with potential and put it on a path to relegation. They will remember him at York City as an unmitigated failure, with few redeeming features.
Resentment brewed at United in the months between Armstrong and Mackay-Steven leaving, and that April statement. He should have left at the time, and should only have made trips to York as a tourist (go, it’s a great city).
His early work at Partick Thistle and United marked him out, but his choice of mentors and collaborators didn’t do him any favours. That United contract worked for him on paper, but it was a burden on his career. He’ll be lucky to pick up as high a profile a job as Thistle or United, which is a pity, as he’s a better manager than his CV currently suggests.
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so,
to draw a conclusion from all of Macjays and MWDs posts this morning,
is the assumption to be made that macjay was slagging off the Aussie teams performance in the Japan game because they fought against his beloved fascist Germany in 2 world wars?
or i may have read the posts wrong…
AULD TAM on 11TH OCTOBER 2016 12:18 PM
Macjay –
Top 2 qualify automatically so shouldn’t be a problem.
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You wouldn`t have thought so.
Almore
Enjoy your day in the kerrydale cafe lol
Hope all goes well
HH
Almore
Enjoy your day in the kerrydale cafe lol
Hope all goes well
Ahjaysuzcsc
:-)
HH
FORD -?
This is an interesting/ informative read –
Karola Fings et al – Working For The Enemy – Ford , General Motors and Forced Labor in Germany During The Second World War.
Mod
delete me .26 post please
Ta
Norepeatinkerrydalecafelineagain:-)
HH
South of Tunis
Prescott Bush, brown Brothers Harriman, Fritz Thyssen & The Union Banking Corporation is also an interesting read.
MWD
new article posted.
BMCUWP
I see JohnJames recons Dave King will be at next Hootenany. :-)
MWD
The E Tims are in danger of becoming too sensible :).
Today they ask questions about intimidation of shareholders
http://etims.net/?p=10054
but don’t Celtic staff also walk under the same shadow?
Is it not time for Celtic to bring the issue into the light?
What is their current policy? Do they have one? Should all clubs not have a publicly stated policy on the matter and take responsibility for cleaning out their own houses?
Should the SFA/SPFL not be pushing clubs to eradicate this sort of intimidatory behaviour by positive rather than passive means and being demonstrating how they are?
Who better to clean up their own houses than the individual clubs themselves but where if anywhere is the pressure to come from if not from the leading club (which means LEAD) in Scottish football?
TD67 ….. was it something they said hahahaha …. but you are right, posters need to take what they give …. HH to all
Auldheid ….. in what way are shareholders being intimidated by Celtic …. ?