Birmingham City fans have their say on Karren Brady
Birmingham City fans have been sending plenty of emails/letters our way since Karren Brady's comments in The Sun last week.
KARREN Brady’s column was an asbolute disgrace.
What other professionally run club would allow their MD to take the mickey out of other clubs/chairman, run down their own players and take cheap shots at their own manager?
It may be great for Sun readers but it is a conflict of interest and embarrassing for Blues as a club and for fans.
Does the fact that she probably gets very well paid for it come before the good of the club and the fans?
I wonder.
RYAN, via email
KARREN Brady’s comments are interesting and hopefully reveal the board are ready to act if the dreadful performances we have had to endure this season continue.
We have won the last two home games by a single goal and kept hold of second spot which, for the time being, will stop the axe from falling on Alex McLeish anytime soon but we continue to make hard work of it.
If you look at what a change of manager has done for Chelsea’s results – no-one is talking about the injustice of sacking a manager when you are fourth in the Premeir League now.
I am afraid it is the end justifying the means.
ANDYBLUE, via email
IT LOOKS like I am in a minority here but I am pleased Karren Brady is frank about what is going on in the club as we learn nothing from the bland statements on their website.
Yes, there are times when she could be more discreet but if her Sun column has galvanised Alex McLeish and Co then more power to her elbow.
In many ways she is only saying what has been said on this site so many times this year.
CLIFTONBLUE, via email
HOW disrespectful of Karren Brady to say what she did about Alex McLeish.
If she has something to say to her manager it should be done to his face not behind a newspaper column.
God only knows what this has done to team morale. I wouldn’t blame McLeish if he quit.
Her comments reveal exactly what sort of person she must be to work for: arrogant, conceited and with no man-manager skills.
Just when Blues are hitting a bit of form, Brady kicks the manager, who is working with limited resources because the board won’t give him any money, right in the teeth.
It’s downright disgraceful.
J SMITH, Kingshurst
IT’S nice to see Villa’s first-team squad could make the “jolly” to Dubai but stayed at home for Moscow.
The no-show left me sick to my stomach and then you hear Villa are off to Dubia when they could have been in the Ukraine.
How on earth will Villa be able to sell UEFA cup tickets in the future for home or away games?
The UEFA cup is dead in my eyes from now on so I just hope this time next year O’Neill is fighting for top six.
S HAMILTON, Sutton Coldfield
I HAVE been an Albion fan for over 60 years but unlike some supporters I still like to live in the present, and not dwell on past glory days.
Of course we’d all like to have our old legends playing for us – While, Bomber and definitely Jeff – but come on, we would not be able to pay one of those players today’s salary.
Leave Tony Mowbray alone – if you want kick-and-rush go to St Andrew’s.
Both Megson and Bruce have proved that with Premiership funding they were good Premiership managers.
R MOORE, Kings Norton
HISTORY tells us it was wrong for Villa to forgo a cup competition in favour of the league.
The 1976/77 season saw Villa parade the likes of Gidman, Nicholl, Phillips, Mortimer, Cropley, Little, Graydon, Cowans and Gray and play exciting football, the likes of which had not been seen for decades.
They won the League Cup after a marathon three-match final that gripped the fans’ attention and provided the sort of entertainment, drama and emotion that was unforgettable.
The season is in the record books as one where we could possibly have achieved more in the league but actually won some silverware and, more importantly, provided the springboard for a memorable UEFA cup run and laid the foundations for the club to believe it could win the league again.
The current Villa team is not quite ready to compete for a sustained Champions League run but needs to become an outfit that can show a winning pedigree.
M GREENHILL, Sutton Coldfield
JUDGING from some of the letters in Your shout, some vitriolic, about Martin O’Neill, it must now seen most likely that the first team wouldn’t have done any better than the team chosen if the result against Manchester City is anything to go by.
Therefore, the Russian result would have been the same.
B SHEWARD, Birmingham
WHAT is wrong with the Villa fans?
Martin O’Neill has worked a miracle in the two-and-a-half years as our manager.
The team he took over would have ended up in the Championship but are now fourth from top in the Premier League.
So give O’Neill respect – he deserves that big time.
P LAWLER, Birmingham
