The big difference is that Nicholson consistently won trophies year after year even when we were slumping. We have had some high finishes under Pochettino but whenever we have come close to that end goal, the trophy, we have always fallen short.Between 63 and 66 Bill Nick's great double winning side stagnated and aged, slumping from the top 3 to 8th in 3 seasons. It was clearly the end of an era.
Did we decide to get rid of a manager who'd taken us as far as he could?
No. He built a new team with the likes of Mullery, Venables and Jennings, and we finished 3rd and won the FA Cup.
Again, when that team finished 11th in 70, he built another team with Perryman and Covers, and we won another FA cup and a UEFA cup.
The point being, and it's one I've made many times in the last few weeks, that when a squad has reached the end of its lifecycle, as ours has, you don't just sack the most progressive manager this club has had since Burkinshaw. You let a man who has proven himself able to build excellent teams, and take them all the way to the very top of the game, the chance to do it again.
Yeah, if the man himself can't be arsed, and wants to move then, then fair enough. I'll wish him the best, and say thanks for wholesale sorting this club out.
So how bad does it need to get? Short of relegation, I'll back the man and anyone else if they want to be here and give it the bollocks. And now...
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I want to see this side win trophies a hell of a lot more than finishing in the top 4, and the fact is we have never looked further away from doing that right now.
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