Preston and their manager have decided that parting company one game into the season is best for everyone.
2 May 2023
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Must be a record? When I saw that Peter Ridsdale was involved I was not surprised. Allow a manager a full pre-season, bring in new signings and then sack him after one match against promotion favourites. Although Ridsdale hasn't failed upwards, he has certainly failed into a succession of roles since Leeds.
As this looks like a decision taken after a poorish finish to last season, you'd have thought that May would have been the right time. Not Ridsdale though.
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Wasn't Ridsdale actually disqualified as a company director at one point due to his (alleged) sketchy dealings at Caerdydd? Or did I make that up?
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Just checked, and they lost 2-0 at home to a side relegated from the Premier League. Presume something else must be going on because a sacking after one game in those circumstances is bonkers.
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It sounds like Lowe actually resigned rather than the club sacking him, apparently he tried to resign a little while back and Ridsdale talked him out of it.
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It was their 6th loss in a row without scoring a goal, but you would have thought end of last season was the time not first game of this
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Well his old job at Argyle will be available soon
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Paul Yorkshirebottom is the favourite for the Preston job.
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Update: Steve Bruce is now the new manager of Blackpool. Like Jamaica, it has beaches and sea and drunk tourists. Unlike Jamaica, everything else.
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Maybe his wife didn't want to go.
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Clever. I'm not falling for that, my jokes are bad enough as it is.
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Steve Bruce is on a one man crusade to manage every single football league club North of Coventry, in a haphazard fashion, isn't he?
Has he even ever been past Warwick services southbound? Ever?
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Surprised he's not been elevated to the house of lords by now, for services to destroying football.
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Still not south of Warick services, southbound, albeit geographically, relative to the rest of the island of Great Britain, in adifferent part of the country.
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Played for Gillingham and managed Palace, so... probably?
