The Deadman
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- 7 Dec 2017
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Matt Elliott was the best player I've ever seen in a yellow shirt (started going to games early 90s). No idea whether he would be a good manager or not, but I hate the suggestion of him less than some of the others on this thread!
On the Robin Herd front.....no doubt that his heart was in the right place. But he also mismanaged the club off the field to the extent that we ended up with a rusting pile of metal in Blackbird Leys rather than a new stadium. If he'd done a better job, none of us may ever have heard of the name Firoz Kassam.....and we'd all be better off for it!
In Robin Herd's defence, he wanted to build the stadium and use the leisure complex to support the club - that was the original plan. Unfortunately, he was badly advised by those in charge of the stadium project and was told to use a company called Stadivarious who said they could raise several million pounds in sponsorship. This money never came and Herd was less than 24 hours away from bankruptcy as a result. As you say his heart was in the right place, but sadly put too much trust into advisors who sold him and the club down the river.