Newcastle fans will claim they deserve their current success under Eddie Howe after enduring a string of rotten caretaker managers. Still, none of them clung on like Steve Kean.
Here are six of the worst temporary appointments in Premier League hstory…
Cristian Stellini (Tottenham)
The Italian, as Antonio Conte’s assistant, had stepped up while the main man was parting with his gall bladder. And he did pretty well. Actually, he couldn’t have done better, winning four games out of four, two either side of Conte’s brief return which coincided with two defeats.
In that context, there was some logic to asking Stellini to take over again when Daniel Levy could no longer ignore Conte’s pleas for the sack. But Spurs needed a mid-season reset, not just Conte-lite.
Nothing changed. How could it? Spurs retained the same system, using the same players and the same methods that had got Conte nowhere. Stellini was given four more games but this time he managed to win only one of them – and that was with a huge helping hand from some VAR buffoonery.
A home defeat to Bournemouth was bad enough but the surrender to Newcastle at St James’ Park was one of the worst performances in Premier League history. No manager could survive that, certainly not one that had no future at the club beyond the end of the season.
It wasn’t Stellini’s fault. He should never have been asked to stay on after his mate had gone, even if he had the necessary pedigree. He was just the latest fall guy in a very Spursy story.
Joe Kinnear (Newcastle)
Watching Kevin Keegan walk out for a second time was bad enough for Newcastle fans. Seeing Kinnear arrive in September 2008 to replace the messiah made the situation so much worse.
It didn’t escape Kinnear that he wasn’t particularly welcome. In his first press conference, he immediately went on the attack, calling out one of the journos as “a c***” while swearing over 50 times.
Read more: Quote unquote: Joe ‘f*cking’ Kinnear at Newcastle
On the pitch, things didn’t go much better but his belligerence didn’t bother Mike Ashley since the Newcastle owner kept granting the interim manager extensions. In February 2009, shortly after he had been given the gig until the end of the season with a record of five wins, 10 defeats and 11 draws from 26 games, Kinnear was admitted to hospital and had to stand down to undergo heart bypass surgery. Alan Shearer stepped into the breach and, well…
Alan Shearer (Newcastle)
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