Gazza Blows It

So depending on which side of the story you believe, either Gazza walked away from the club he had recently taken over as manager of (as part of a larger consortium who bought the whole club), or he was fired for rocking up to team training and matches a little worse for wear. He's now claiming he's going to buy the whole thing and re-instate himself, or at least turn the fans and players against the guy who sacked him.

Given he seems to have been able to hold a job for a maximum of 2 months for a good few years, I'm inclined to believe the latter. But on the other hand, it would be pretty easy for anyone to claim such a likely story and get away with it, even if it was totally fabricated. How good he would be as a manager anyway isn't clear cut - there's plenty of great players who were pretty awful managers (and vice versa), and somehow the thought of Gazza being in charge of anything is a little scary to me.

Anyway, despite the outcome of this little saga, I hope he doesn't end up like George Best - drunk, broke and then dead before his time.

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