Re: Why the hate for McLeish?
The relegation season I was referring to was 2007-8, Tam. 46 goals!Quote
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Agree with that. Certain players were below par - or just not good enough for the Premier League. Zigic and Jerome could only muster 12 league goals between them that season. We were sunk by a lack of goal power. Yet the likes of Zigic has been feted as one of the greats in Blues history largely due to the League Cup win. I know how important that was to us fans but had we had a slightly more prolific striker then we would probably have survived relegation and our recent history may have been different.
Ironically the first of Ecks relegations was mostly down to a pathetically weak defence, especially at centre back. The failure to land Cahill in that January did for us. (Could blame Brady for that one). We actually scored 46 goals that season, one more than Man City who finished 9th.
Ah well.....
Our relegation season? We only managed 37 goals, I think.