Gareth Southgate given freedom of Middlesbrough

Because when sacked by Boro it had a massive impact on him personally and took a long time for the ordeal to be emotionally processed. He stated he lost a lot of self esteem, struggled to talk to his family about things, walking down the street became an emotional ordeal at times. As a result, I am sure it won’t have been easy on the whole family in attempting to support him through it. Those memories can stay with you and badly scar you.

In my opinion he was treated poorly at the time and I am sure people much closer to Gareth will have felt so too. Sacked when one point off the top would have been a bitter pill to swallow. The impacts on family life when these types of events occur can be quite devastating I’d imagine, money does not heal emotional scars. It took him several years to get back on the horse.
 
Have they even consulted with him on the matter? I hope so. I don’t think he is the sort of person that would snub it mind if they haven’t, but whether it is something he would altogether have welcomed is debatable. I hope it is looked at in a positive light and helps toward healing some of the scars from his time as Boro manager.
 
Because when sacked by Boro it had a massive impact on him personally and took a long time for the ordeal to be emotionally processed. He stated he lost a lot of self esteem, struggled to talk to his family about things, walking down the street became an emotional ordeal at times. As a result, I am sure it won’t have been easy on the whole family in attempting to support him through it. Those memories can stay with you and badly scar you.

In my opinion he was treated poorly at the time and I am sure people much closer to Gareth will have felt so too. Sacked when one point off the top would have been a bitter pill to swallow. The impacts on family life when these types of events occur can be quite devastating I’d imagine, money does not heal emotional scars. It took him several years to get back on the horse.
I didn’t know that, although all those fans baying for his blood should hang their heads.
 
The poor thing. The trauma of getting sacked from a £multi million job.
Thats NOT pressure. Pressure is not having enough to pay your mortgage or feed your kids.

Walked away with £16million and demanded the last £1.2million immdiately and threatened the club with court action if it wasn't paid out staight away. This at a time when we had cashflow issues. Gibson was so incensed he went public with it.

Some of you holding him up as some kind of victim badly treated by the Boro need to get a grip.
The vast majority of you wanted him out and rightly so.
 
The poor thing. The trauma of getting sacked from a £multi million job.
Thats NOT pressure. Pressure is not having enough to pay your mortgage or feed your kids.

Walked away with £16million and demanded the last £1.2million immdiately and threatened the club with court action if it wasn't paid out staight away. This at a time when we had cashflow issues. Gibson was so incensed he went public with it.

Some of you holding him up as some kind of victim badly treated by the Boro need to get a grip.
The vast majority of you wanted him out and rightly so.
If you think money helps you deal with emotional trauma then I feel sorry for you. Mental health and emotional trauma’s are not the preserve of the poor.
 
The poor thing. The trauma of getting sacked from a £multi million job.
Thats NOT pressure. Pressure is not having enough to pay your mortgage or feed your kids.

Walked away with £16million and demanded the last £1.2million immdiately and threatened the club with court action if it wasn't paid out staight away. This at a time when we had cashflow issues. Gibson was so incensed he went public with it.

Some of you holding him up as some kind of victim badly treated by the Boro need to get a grip.
The vast majority of you wanted him out and rightly so.
The 86 squad went without wages for months...... Then won back 2 back promotions..... But no freedom of the town 4 them...
 
Southgate seems a philosophical type person, so I'd be surprised if he allowed an event he had no control over (sacked by Boro) to effect his whole life so long.
He has opened up about the huge impact his sacking from Boro had on him (and therefore no doubt by default, his family). It was only last year too, it was during a discussion with Prince William I think, as part of the raising awareness of the Heads Up campaign.

Gareth is only human, he and his family have feelings, like we all do, we all cope differently with trauma, money is no cure for loss of self esteem and mental health well-being. I felt he was treated shabbily for someone who always gave his best for our club and became a club legend. Gibson persuaded him to take the job even though he had doubts himself. He had to oversee a clearout, the ageing squad was weakened season on season as part of the cost cutting needed to stabilise the clubs finances, being the general consensus at the time I think. The club offered him the contract and I don’t blame him for insisting it was honoured, I think we all would all have done the same too. Those thinking he had no right to demand the compensation he was contractually entitled to must be on another planet.

The club never sacked him on relegation, they stood by him at that point and rightly so imho, partly because the recruitment set up and the owner were partly also culpable for our demise i suspect. He was sacked when one point off the top, Lamb openly said he discussed the job with Strachan weeks earlier. I think there was a drop in attendances after the WBA game, some 4k-5k drop. I think from fading memory that it was reported that the drop in attendances spooked the club and contributed to the decision. However, my issue with that is that Lamb went on record as saying he discussed the potential vacancy with Gordon Strachan when they met at the Coventry away draw straight after the WBA game, which was before the next few home games that saw the attendances drop. The timing of his sacking, after a win and being one point off top, just didn’t add up for me.
 
My sympathies lie with the billuons living in abject poverty. Those with no access to health care. Those living on constant fear in lawless cesspit. Etc etc etc.
I have little sympathy for someone who was looked after very well by MFC then did the dirty on them.

'Pushed into the managers job' Jesus wept.
 
My sympathies lie with the billuons living in abject poverty. Those with no access to health care. Those living on constant fear in lawless cesspit. Etc etc etc.
I have little sympathy for someone who was looked after very well by MFC then did the dirty on them.

'Pushed into the managers job' Jesus wept.
I suggest you do some research.

Who said he was pushed into the job? Not me, I said he had doubts and was apparently persuaded by Gibson to take it (I believe that was what was reported at the time), that is a wholly different spin that you wrote, smalltown clearly has a point about his ‘people putting words in peoples mouths’ thread.

Personally, I have empathy with anyone rich or poor that loses a job, their self esteem, stuggles to talk with their family about their feelings and emotions. Not enjoying walking down the street because perhaps your paranoia runs riot. You obviously don’t appreciate the damage losing a job can do when you yourself have belief in yourself. The video put on here earlier in the week regarding Leroy Lita showed the players were fully behind him and were shocked at his sacking. The effects of trauma on your mental health really does play havoc with people, whether you agree or not. No money in the world can fix you if you are partly broken, especially when your world is turned upside down and you have no expectation of it coming.

As for your comment about him “doing the dirty on Boro”, I think you need to reflect on what really happened, who did what to whom and, your ridiculous choice of words.
 
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