Phil Brown Is The Worst Kind Of Manager

In the beginning half of the season, Hull were the surprise package. They were fun and exciting, taking scalps left, right, and centre. Arsenal, Tottenham, and Fulham were their best results in the first few months, with other impressive performances making them a top 10 team.

Brown had seemingly assembled a decent team with a quality player in Geovanni who was capable of scoring wonder goals.

Brown was thrust into the limelight and he seemed to revel in it. He may have deserved the spotlight, but what I noticed was that he was openly taking full credit as a miracle worker, a top boss, and yet they were not even half way through the season.

Getting ahead of yourself always comes back to haunt the offender and Brown was no exception. Gravity begun to work as effortlessly as usual and the bad results began.

Sunderland beat them 4-1 at home and then the infamous away day defeat at Man City. With his team losing 4-0 at half time, Brown decided to conduct his angry team talk in front of the corner of the pitch where their travelling support resided.

You can tell by the way the players walked to their crucifixion that they were disturbed by this. This has never been done in the history of the game and commentators and experts across the country expressed their opinions on this, most of them negative.

My feeling is that this belittled the players—washing his hands of any blame and siding with the fans against them. It's not as if Hull, who had just been promoted through the playoffs, were exempt from a beating or two, it was always going to happen.

These are pro players not Sunday league players, and there are ways of conduct in the professional game. This for me was a step to far. Brown's lust for the limelight and love of his own abilities had crossed a line never to be crossed.

This was bound to stir up the players. They may not have made a big noise about it but you damn well know were seething about it within their private circles.

So followed a complete capitulation of form, with just one win in their last 22 league games.  Fighting now in a relegation battle, form like that does not deserve to be celebrated.

They survived through no fault of their own, relying on teams with equal or worse form than them. Come the final whistle, Brown celebrated with champagne, singing, yes actually singing to fans on an open mic as if he had anything to do with their survival.

Why should he be taking any credit? If anything he should be having a quiet word with his players over a serving of humble pie.

He really does think he is something, but if Newcastle had pulled a finger out and scored just one goal the outcome of his season would have been completely different.

I couple this with various fights with other clubs, such as Arsenal and the infamous Fabregas spit-gate, and all I see is an arrogant big mouth who has lost the respect of a lot of his players.

His lust for the camera has overshadowed his players but maybe he just wishes for 11 of himself to be on the pitch and perhaps he could win the Premiership, or even better, fame.

Managers should have humility, respect, and control and this man is just a massive pain in the backside.