Roy Hodgson appointed by West Brom

Daysha

Just breaking on SSN.

Paully D

Madness.

mike65

Breaking news:

* West Brom manager Roberto Di Matteo has been relieved of his duties and placed on gardening leave

Thats a pity for him and the fact Wolves play them soon (twice)

amiable

Stupid decision IMHO

Kiwi_knock

Bad decision, thought he was doing well with them. Go through one bad patch and you get sacked, disgraceful really.

flahavaj

Form has been poor lately, but overall he was doing a very good job and playing some good football. More chairman muppetry.

Minister Boyce

should be no real shock about this move - part of the course now unfortunetly

Panthro

Poor Roberto, hopefully he finds something else

whatawaster

Disgraceful. He was building a decent side there. They've been unlucky several times this season. Games at Liverpool and united spring to mind

orourkeda

Lunacy

chopperbyrne

Stupid decision. We'll probably get relegated now.

SlickRic

just another nail in the soul of football.

how the fúck do these owners justify this sort of shít?

if Roberto hadn't had such a good start to the season, there is no way he'd be sacked now if the position in the table were the same.

so in essence, he's being fired for having a good run at the start of the season.

this sort of crap makes me physically angry.

Underground

Shocking decision,who do they think they can get that will do a better job?
FFS he even won a manager of the month trophy this season

they're not even in the f**king drop zone! madness!

jaykay74

Balls. Wba played nice football and I dont think he has spent much. Should have played sh!t pulis style football I suppose.

DM_7

That is a surprise, only 13 games to go. After getting them promoted and picking up 26 points already surely he deserved more.

Ian_K

Absolutely stupid, he was getting the best out of the players he had, thats all you can ask of a manager
Half of them simply arent good enough for the premiership

ricero

Lovely jubely

eagle eye

Crazy decision imo. Hope they pay the price for this.

The Volt

Disgraceful. Hope they go down now.

Dozen Wicked Words

Back to route one again then presuambly. Presuambly they have someone lined up. Why do it a week after the end of the transfer window? Moronic.

Underground

Gary Megson to the rescue

CoalBucket

Jesus, They'll prob bring in Big Sam and go to long ball and get relegated

Sasquatch76

Short-sighted, idiotic decision. Isn't it just so sad that it still isn't a surprising decision?

Underground

Probably the best WBA side I've seen in the premiership in recent years too.

ButcherOfNog

I would say the sensible money will be on Roy Hodgson to replace him

mike65

Underground wrote: »

Gary Megson to the rescue

Just got a gig at Sheffield Wednesday

ButcherOfNog wrote: »

I would say the sensible money will be on Roy Hodgson to replace him

Rafa Benitez maybe?

eagle eye

Don't forget about Big Sam Allardyce.

Dont be at yourself

mike65 wrote: »

Just got a gig at Sheffield Wednesday



Rafa Benitez maybe?

I'd love to see that!

Probably Roy. It's his level.

SantryRed

Great decision. Yeah I know football has gone crazy and he should have been goven more time. But has anyone actually watched them the past month? They've been absolutely woeful and very stale looking.

Raskolnikov

mike65 wrote: »

Rafa Benitez maybe?

Jose Mourinho will take the assistant manager job :cool:

Nalz

Voltwad wrote: »

Disgraceful. Hope they go down now.

Hate to say it but I agree. Awful decision, unless something else went on behind the scenes.

Mitch Connor

Big Sam and Chris Hughton would be the two most likely imo.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4717551310_84e470d112.jpg

Lukker-

Shocking decision.

bradlente

Victim of his own success.You have to wonder what some clubs are thinking when they make decisions like this.

Jax Teller

Prob get chelsea's assistant manager job now

IvySlayer

Baffling decision.

Di Matteo was a nice guy, his side played some lovely stuff. They've been unlucky too a few times this season. I know they are 2 points of the relegation zome but look at their next 4 fixtures

WBA vs West Ham
WBA vs Wolves
Stoke vs WBA
Birmingham vs WBA

Gillington

I'd say Brian Robson is waiting excitedly by the phone

titan18

Considering,a lot of people think they'll get relegated(look at the relegation thread), it's probably a good choice.They havent been winning too much lately so might aswell make a change

D'Agger

Just keeping with the general gist of the thread - Stupid fúcking decision.

He had WBA playing some lovely football and they weren't in the drop zone - it's idiocy!

SantryRed

November
Mon 1 Blackpool PREM L 1-2 15,210
Sun 7 Manchester City PREM L 0-2 23,013
Wed 10 West Ham Utd PREM D 2-2 33,023
Sat 13 Wigan Athletic PREM L 0-1 16,085
Sat 20 Stoke City PREM L 0-3 24,164
Sat 27 Everton PREM W 4-1 35,237

December
Wed 1 Ipswich Town LGCP L 0-1 11,363
Sun 5 Newcastle PREM W 3-1 23,486
Sat 11 Aston Villa PREM L 1-2 37,015
Sun 26 Bolton PREM L 0-2 23,413
Tue 28 Blackburn PREM L 1-3 24,440
January
Sat 1 Man Utd PREM L 1-2 25,499
Tue 4 Fulham PREM L 0-3 23,654
Sat 8 Reading FACP L 0-1 13,005
Sat 15 Blackpool PREM W 3-2 25,316
Sun 23 Blackburn PREM L 0-2 24,057

February
Tue 1 Wigan Athletic PREM D 2-2 25,358
Sat 5 Manchester City PREM L 0-3 46,846

They're the results since November. They had a good start, and the WBA board obviously don't have faith in him to get points in their next 4 games.

iMuse

They have the worst defense in the league so they prob will try and get someone in like big Sam to sort them out

Soby

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/west_bromwich_albion/results/default.stm

Look at those results.
A lot of his losses (with the excetion of few 3-0/1 defeats,one of them yesterday and the 6-0 hammering we gave them) have been very very tight games.
Examples of some good results he got

West Brom 1-1 Tottenham

Arsenal 2-3 West Brom

Man Utd 2-2 West Brom

Everton 1-4 West Brom

West Brom 3-1 Newcastle

Strange decision just like Houghton really.Prob will go down now I'd say

Btw was not farmilar with the term "Garden leave" till i googled it just there.Usually a practice done in football?

Chucky the tree

4 points from there last 27. That's a shocking return. I think theywere right to sack him as I felt they would have reall struggled to stay up.

Dont be at yourself

Its very hard to defend those results, and things didn't really look like improving.

4 winnable games coming up, but they can equally be considered as must win games, so maybe it was the best time for a change.

Di Matteo is a nice guy, and tries to play nice football, and I think that's more behind the outcry against his sacking than the realities. Not really comparable to the Hughton sacking at all IMO.

fulhamfanincork

Martin Jol.

Soby

Chucky the tree wrote: »

4 points from there last 27. That's a shocking return. I think theywere right to sack him as I felt they would have reall struggled to stay up.

Still bit harsh though given what he had done with the club.Sure look at our man Carlo's record recently.Did a rough work out there.Bout 8 points from 21 or so at one point.

BERBA

Woy for West Brom

Dolph Starbeam

Terrible decision, i always like Roberto, hopefully he'll get another job soon. As for West Brom, i'd like to see them go down now.

That_Guy

Unfortunate. West Brom can play some really really decent stuff.

applehunter

Stange one.

They have been great to watch when on form this season.