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His voice is boring enough, I challenge anyone to listen with interest for more than thirty seconds, but he tells the same story game after game after game. Just as he was when he was reducing Scotland to a third rate football nation he always thinks his side should have won and always thinks they have been hard done to.
He arrived at Turf Moor still whinging at a disallowed goal on the Saturday, a goal that was clearly a foul, and left whinging on about just about every decision that went Burnley’s way. And there weren’t many of them.
Video evidence has shown that the Eddie Lewis free kick did just about cross the line by no more than a couple of inches but surely Brown should have been far more interested in the inability of Cresswell and his latest poor signing Lynch to hit the empty net from the rebound.
That would have been an impossible decision for the assistant to give with it so close and any view obscured by the post.
But that’s not all, apparently neither of our goals should have counted because the free kicks shouldn’t have been awarded. Excuse me Brown, the free kick you refer to for the first goal came long before we scored, the goal came after crosses from both right and left. The second proves you talk crap because a more blatant free kick you are unlikely to see.
I notice he made no reference to the number of free kicks you were incorrectly awarded by referee Halsey for no reason other than he had taken a dislike to Gareth Taylor.
No wonder the Preston fans can’t be doing with Brown and I hope the board at Deepdale do English football a favour and send Mr. Weary packing back north of the border just as soon as possible.
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If you ever thought the FL might be getting to grips with football then this is further proof that they are as far away as possible. They pass the buck quicker than kids do with a parcel at a party and have clearly not bothered to even take much notice of the restrictions highlighted by the commission who ridiculously allowed the move in the first place.
Of course the move is not unconditional and the temporary accommodation is only to be used until 2007 by which time a new permanent stadium has to have been developed. So what do you do Football League if we get to 2007 and nothing has been done, do you have contingency for that?
But worst of all was one particular comment from Sir Brian Mawhinney (who in heaven’s name allowed this clown into football?) regarding the franchised club. He refers to them as Wimbledon, obviously unaware of what has gone on, but then having called them Wimbledon he says the Football League Board regards Milton Keynes as the club’s conurbation.
The Football League, whether they are prepared to admit it or not, have now without any restrictions whatsoever, allowed franchising into English football. They will not be able to turn down another application surely after this.
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Referee Neale Barry was appalling, somehow he managed to get little right throughout the game and Newcastle boss Bobby Robson queried after the game as to whether he would get any sleep that night.
And like a lot of our bad referees when the bad foul came Barry missed it. Quite how he missed the foul is difficult to imagine as Thomas Gravesen connected with Olivier Bernard’s thigh in a tackle that was frighteningly high.
But miss it he did and with Bernard down he allowed play to go on long enough to award Everton a controversial penalty that won them the match.
Barry is not one of the worst referees in the leagues, although with Barry Knight not having refereed a game since October we are looking for a new number one, but no matter how bad he was last week he will still be there this weekend taking charge of a match. There will be no comeback on him, he will hardly be accountable for his actions.
Every week we get nominations for referees and although it can often be out of frustration when your own team loses there are far too many bad refereeing performances. This from Neale Barry was one of them.
Again our own club received a lot of votes and came close to making the top three. Following on from the Glen Little move and the season tickets it was the 7-4 defeat against Watford and the rantings of CE Watson that got your backs up this week. Another defeat against Preston and/or another offensive programme article on Tuesday might well have seen us up at the top again.
The season is drawing to a close and just a few more weekly awards to be won before we vote on our Tw*t of the Year. Who will take Barry Knight’s title this time round? For the next week just keep your usual look out and send us your NOMINATIONS by midnight next Thursday and all will be revealed on Friday.
The winners so far,
Week 1 – Roy Keane (Manchester United)
Week 2 – Jeff Winter (Referee)
Week 3 – Football League’s Football Disciplinary Commission
Week 4 – Alex Ferguson (Manchester United Manager)
Week 5 – Luton Town supporters
Week 6 – Barry Knight (Referee)
Week 7 – Burnley FC Showboaters
Week 8 – Tony Livesey (Editor Sunday Sport)
Week 9 – The Directors and Owners of Franchise FC
Week 10 – David Sheepshanks (Ipswich Town Chairman)
Week 11 – David Davies (Football Association)
Week 12 – George Boeteng (Middlesbrough)
Week 13 – Andy Hall (Referee)
Week 14 – Craig Hignett (Coventry City Loan Player)
Week 15 – Garry Flitcroft (Blackburn Rovers)
Week 16 – Craig Bellamy & Alan Shearer (Newcastle United)
Week 17 – Peter Kenyon (Manchester United Chief Executive)
Week 18 – Lee Bowyer (Leeds United)
Week 19 – Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
Week 20 – Gerard Houllier (Liverpool Manager)
Week 21 – Gerard Houllier (Liverpool Manager)
Week 22 – Stockport County Football Club
Week 23 – Andy Todd (Blackburn Rovers)
Week 24 – Farnborough Town FC
Week 25 – John Mackie (Reading)
Week 26 – Alex Ferguson (Manchester United Manager)
Week 27 – Jean Tigana (Fulham Manager)
Week 28 – Mark Cooper (Referee)
Week 29 – Rodney Marsh (Sky Clap-trapper)
Week 30 – El-Hadji Diouf (Liverpool)
Week 31 – Burnley Football Club
Week 32 – Peter Kenyon (Manchester United Chief Executive)
Week 33 – Craig Brown (Preston Manager)