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Sacked by Birmingham City on 2 January last year after steering the club from sixth place to 20th in the Championship inside 15 games, then mutually relieved of his duties by Plymouth Argyle with the club rock-bottom of the table 363 days later, it has not gone unnoticed that 2024 was something of a managerial annus horribilis for Wayne Rooney. He suffered the ignominy of being both the first and last of the – we make it – 21 different managers from England’s second tier to take an unceremonious step through assorted doors marked “Do One!” in the calendar year that’s just drawn to a close.
Happy new year! A hearty rendition of ‘Hey Jude’ rang out at Brentford yesterday, but given that Arsenal’s No 9 has rediscovered his scoring form, I reckon that Jesus is more popular than the Beatles (in north London, anyway)” – Peter Oh.
I don’t know who to feel more sympathy for: Julen Lopetegui or Ruben Amorim. After much consideration, it has to be Amorim, who has gone from having a fast young energetic successful squad at Sporting to managing a relegation-threatened team with one superstar on massive wages barely able to make the squad, and what looked like a 47-year-old struggling badly to perform at centre-half in a poor Sunday League team” – John Weldon.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/02/football-daily-email-wayne-rooney-plymouth-argyle
Author : Barry Glendenning
Publish date : 2025-01-02 15:00:28
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