Steve Kean admits Carling Cup 'forfeit' at Cardiff

Dempsey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15957699.stm

Blackburn manager Steve Kean admitted he had "forfeited" their Carling Cup quarter-final against Cardiff ahead of crucial league games.

"We are in a position where we have forfeited going through and having the chance to reach a cup final.

"We have games against sides within touching distance of us in the league.

"We need to treat those games as cup finals."

Surely the book will be thrown at him for those comments? Whatever about fielding weaker teams, he purposely went out to lose.

Wish I'd known, could have bet my house!:pac:

MagicMarker

Where did he say he purposely went out to lose?

28064212

There's nothing in the Carling Cup regulations about having to field your strongest team. There is in the Premier League rules.

SlickRic

he's covering up the shíteness of his team, and his management.

nothing more, nothing less.

Peyton Manning

Seems to be taken out of context. I would have read that as they forfeited their chance at a cup final through a poor performance, not a deliberate throwing of the game, and as such will have to treat their important league games as cup finals instead.

parker kent

Probably just a poor choice of words. Doubt they lost on purpose. If you actually read the entire article he says:

Kean commented: "It is a big disappointment. They were on the back foot to start, we had half-chances and pinned them back.

"But then the confidence starts back up for them when they scored because they're at home where they've been good. It gives everyone a spark."

They wanted to win but not at the expense of tiring or aggravating the injuries of Christopher Samba, Martin Olsson and Michel Salgado.

mike65

Thats just sloppy use of words by Kean. He did no wore than what say Harry Rednapp did and does in the UEFA Cup/Europa League.

That_Guy

Promote that man.

GavRedKing

Every team in the EPL that can, puts out the reserves/youth players, except in Man city's case. :pac:

Still, well done to Cardiff for managing to beat them.

He should forfeit his job.

Kean out - Eagle Eye in.

quarryman

I'm pretty sure he meant to say they "squandered" their chance to get to the semi-final, not forfeited.

Lemlin

He's an idiot. He doesn't know how to handle the press or the players. An utter disgrace to the club and, more importantly, the memory of a great footballing man in Jack Walker.

Kean has to be on course to go down as the worst manager in PL history. The team have won 6 out of his 40 games, and two of those came against West Brom before Di Matteo left and they were terrible. Another came against a Liverpool side who clearly wanted Hodgson gone in what turned out to be his last management game.

He's in charge since last December, 12 months now, and I can list all six wins: Brom home, Brom away, Liverpool home, Bolton home, Wolves away and Arsenal home. The club were staring relegation in the fact last season and he spent the last week talking about Europa League qualification the following season.

His win percentage is 17.65%. To put that in context, Les Reed lasted 7 games with Charlton and had a win percentage of 14.28%. Ricky Sbragia had a 26.8% win percentage over 26 matches with Sunderland when he stepped down. Alain Perrin had a 19.05% win percentage over 21 games with Pompey when he was sacked.

Kean has already been, inexcusably by the owners, given 40 games in charge. Can anyone think of a worse PL manager?

SlickRic

and yet he got himself a payrise.

ah, the batshít crazy world of the EPL under certain foreign owners.

dsmythy

And not one word of a player revolt. Maybe he is man managing pretty good after all. Only a genius can get a new contract in Kean's situation. Therefore Kean = Genius.

cson

Lemlin wrote: »

He's in charge since last December, 12 months now, and I can list all six wins: Brom home, Brom away, Liverpool home, Bolton home, Wolves away and Arsenal home. The club were staring relegation in the fact last season and he spent the last week talking about Europa League qualification the following season.

An Arsenal side that pressed the self destruct button too.

RayCon

Lemlin wrote: »

Can anyone think of a worse PL manager?

.... or worse owners ?

HalloweenJack

Lemlin wrote: »

Can anyone think of a worse PL manager?

Howard Wilkinson at Sunderland (2 wins in 20 games), Mick McCarthy at Sunderland, Billy Davies at Derby, Paul Jewell at Derby.

I'm sure there's more.