Re: Former manager Alex McLeish open to Birmingham City return

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Man in the corner shop
It all very easy to say with your anti villa specs on "feck him he left us for the villa" but you have to give a balanced view what he did at the time and where the club were heading under Carson and pannu..mcleish gave us all the best day of our lives he's a better manager than Harry,zola and Clark maybe even rowett...

Just saying like.

No, I think what he did was treacherous in a football sense - he knew the rivalry. I felt similarly when Coyle did Burnley over to go to Bolton, it's not anti-Villa (which of course I am), it's anti-McLeish for what he did. I'm glad to see that their careers have 'stagnated' since then, to be honest. McLeish was also in charge of two relegations. Wembley was great, and I'll never forget it, but the relegations weren't.

To summarise:

Wembley - great
Relegations - terrible
Jumping ship for Villa - unforgiveable