Regardless of the quality of his squad, setting up a 3 man midfield at the piggery, insisting on continually playing out from the back when your defenders are nowhere near good enough for that, describing a cup final loss to a side famous for being serial bottlers as “a great occasion” and making us into the most predictable team in the land who really only had a solid 6 months under his leadership, and being unable to defend a corner kick or any sort of cross into the box because you neglect defence, are not things that can be blamed on anyone else but him.
To be honest it’s absolutely mind boggling the adulation he still gets after the shifty deals he did with his mate in the most over inflated market imaginable, before looking for the exit, getting caught and threatening legal action against the club. That’s before you get to convincing the board to pay big wages to Barton (they had to be convinced) before washing his hands of the whole affair when Barton did what Barton does. But yeah great guy and wish him all the best etc. Load of bollocks.