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Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Jewell in the…. crown or gutter?

 
 Paul Jewell, he transformed Wigan from a lowly league 1 team to the premiership team they currently are, if you get a stand to yourself now, imagine the crowd when he took over! His managerial career peaked last year when he got the top job in English football, no not the City, United (or Villa) job but the Ipswich Town job, a team that hasn’t won 4 in a row for 3 years, but still Fortress Portman Road achieves attendances Wigan can only dream about of 15,000 and above. A team that call ourselves annually ‘play off’ hopefuls but haven’t finished higher than 8th in 5 years, yes we bring in players that look like they might turn our fortunes around but when they step upon the hallowed turf of Portman Road they seem to lose all their ability. Anyway, rant about Ipswich over, back on to PJ, the man took over when the club was in disarray, Roy Keane had decimated the squad by selling reliable squad players and bringing in very few decent players including Colin Healy, the chant 'Who the hell are you?' comes to mind. So he had a certain degree of leeway with money to spend and fans that are just grateful of being out of the house still watching, yet he goes and signs Lee Bowyer, hardly a role model for the youngsters in our squad, a player that didn’t have much ability at his peak let alone now when he’s well past it. Since those long days of summer with only OAP’s  (Old awful players) being signed such as Ivar Ingimarsson and Ibrahima Sonko, Paul Jewell’s side has been spanked by the likes of Peterborough and Southampton, usually a manager would not enjoy it but after a sex tape in 2008 I think he likes being on the end of a spanking, I think a team of ‘Blonde Dykes with huge tits’ similar to the so called woman in the video who might resemble more Robbie Savage than Angie Savage (look her up) would probably finish higher in the table than Peterborough anyway, even though the lost Craig Mackail-smith, who could pass as a blonde dyke. It amazes me that he found someone willing to be videoed having sex with the slightly tubby scouser, and not found a striker that can bag more than 10 goals a season. 
Anyway all in all, Jewell needs to spend on a defender who doesn’t qualify for a free bus pass, a striker that gets goals and a creative midfielder, not asking for much PJ! 
Good luck with it and yes, we are still play off hopefuls, sitting in 20th. 
KEEP THE FAITH
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