Leroy Lita

Anton_Berg said:
Lita used to get carded for taking his shirt off every time he scored. We now have the time to ponder: what is the maximum number of goals he could score in a Championship season, assuming he started the maximum number of matches possible? Lots of 'braces' bagged, presumably.
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1 Goal/Yellow
2 Goal/Yellow
3 Goal/Yellow
4 Goal/Yellow
5 Goal/Yellow
6 Suspension - 5 yellows
7 Goal/Yellow
8 Goal/Yellow
9 Goal/Yellow
10 Goal/Yellow
11 Goal/Yellow
12 Suspension - 10 yellows
13 Suspension - 10 yellows
14 Goal/Yellow
15 Goal/Yellow
16 Goal/Yellow
17 Goal/Yellow
18 Goal/Yellow
19 Suspension - 15 yellows
20 Suspension - 15 yellows
21 Suspension - 15 yellows
22 Goal/Yellow
23 Goal/Yellow
24 Goal/Yellow
25 Goal/Yellow
26 Goal/Yellow

For 20 yellows the ban is "as determined by a Regulatory Commission", so i've just added in a 4 game ban (there are no rules on 25 bookings+)

27 Suspension - 20 yellows
28 Suspension - 20 yellows
29 Suspension - 20 yellows
30 Suspension - 20 yellows
31 Goal/Yellow
32 Goal/Yellow
33 Goal/Yellow
34 Goal/Yellow
35 Goal/Yellow
36 Goal/Yellow
37 Goal/Yellow
38 Goal/Yellow
39 Goal/Yellow
40 Goal/Yellow
41 Goal/Yellow
42 Goal/Yellow
43 Goal/Yellow
44 Goal/Yellow
45 Goal/Yellow
46 Goal/Yellow

So out of 46 games, 36 played, 36 goals, 36 yellows, 10 games missed through suspension.

Used to annoy me when he took his shirt off and got booked every time he scored......i'd have forgiven him with this record though...
 
Alternatively...

1 2 Goals/2 Yellows = 1 red
2 Suspension - 1 red
3 2 Goals/2 Yellows = 1 red
4 Suspension - 2 reds
5 Suspension - 2 reds
6 2 Goals/2 Yellows = 1 red
7 Suspension - 3 reds
8 Suspension - 3 reds
9 Suspension - 3 reds
10 2 Goals/2 Yellows = 1 red
11 Suspension - 4 reds
12 Suspension - 4 reds
13 Suspension - 4 reds
14 Suspension - 4 reds
15 2 Goals/2 Yellows = 1 red
16 Suspension - 5 reds
17 Suspension - 5 reds
18 Suspension - 5 reds
19 Suspension - 5 reds
20 Suspension - 5 reds
21 2 Goals/2 Yellows = 1 red
22 Suspension - 6 reds
23 Suspension - 6 reds
24 Suspension - 6 reds
25 Suspension - 6 reds
26 Suspension - 6 reds
27 Suspension - 6 reds
28 2 Goals/2 Yellows = 1 red
29 Suspension - 7 reds
30 Suspension - 7 reds
31 Suspension - 7 reds
32 Suspension - 7 reds
33 Suspension - 7 reds
34 Suspension - 7 reds
35 Suspension - 7 reds
36 2 Goals/2 Yellows = 1 red
37 Suspension - 8 reds
38 Suspension - 8 reds
39 Suspension - 8 reds
40 Suspension - 8 reds
41 Suspension - 8 reds
42 Suspension - 8 reds
43 Suspension - 8 reds
44 Suspension - 8 reds
45 2 Goals/2 Yellows = 1 red
46 Suspension - 9 reds

So out of 46 games, 9 played, 18 goals, 18 yellows/9 reds, 37 games missed through suspension.
 
That’s a brilliant story in the interview about Lita, Tony Mc and Emnes accidentally getting a taxi from Slovenia to Hungary because they were following some girls after a pre-season friendly 😂
 
boromike85 said:
Sacking Southgate was 100% the correct decision. The problem was the timing. He should've gone as soon as relegation was confirmed, if not before. That squad was still looking at the top half of the table early in the relegation season. It was good enough to stay up.

He was sacked not long after getting beaten 5-0 at home. It was one of the worst home performances I've ever witnessed and then we struggled for a few weeks. That will have made Gibson's mind up. The result against Derby was irrelevant. He had already gone. There was no way Southgate was keeping us challenging that season. Our squad was still full of PL players early in the season. Once the transfer window closed and we lost a few of them we started to struggle. Adam Johnson head and shoulders above everyone and was winning us matches on his own. It had nothing to do with Southgate.

Obviously Strachan was a disaster but Southgate had to go. He had already lost the fans.
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I agree, he was there to long, should have gone much sooner
 
I am one of the very few that was gutted he had been sacked. I felt disappointment that Gibson did that. I understand many wanted him sacked before we were relegated never mind after relegation was confirmed.

I have said that he was the wrong appointment in 2006. I personally felt he was not his own man and do not believe he was in charge of recruitment, especially given his lack of experience. I have no doubt he was involved in the process and from everything we have seen since we know the ‘head coach’ does not always get their way it would seem.

It seems to me Southgate was the cheap option who was popular with the fans and gave the owner time to implement the cost cutting from the McClaren years. We seemingly had a lot of players who were at a senior stage in the careers whose value had to be realised or wage bills slashed

Queudrue was sold for £3M, being replaced by the inferior Arca although admittedly we paid £6M for Huth that summer, the clearout began in earnest in the winter, Ehiogu, Parlour and Maccarone all given free transfers, followed by Viduka, Xavier, Christie all off the wage bill along with Parnaby and Graham

We sold Yakubu replaced him with Mido, bought Woodgate but quickly sold him a few months later bought and sold Luke Young within the year, Southgate did exceptionally well with the huge turnover that was taking place in those first two seasons in charge imho. Loads of players left either out of contract or on frees a few were sold for good money and replaced by inferior players, some nevertheless for good money Mido for £6M ….. Where was due dilligence with him? Alves £13.5M for a player who allegedly struggled to read and write?

The year we were relegated the squad we had was brittle, it lacked leadership, it was full of individuals who had no fight or backbone, only Pog and Huth had any fight. We were so lightweight in the midfield and upfront. We dropped like a stone from November, playing 13 games without a win, stopping the rot with an unexpected win at home over Liverpool, an own goal set up that win. Southgate was set up to fail imho, not deliberately, but he was naive in his managerial years at Boro but I am sure he gave his best given his lot. I thought he was treated badly and was in part taken advantage off in terms of the wheeling and dealing. I know he was bitter about his sacking. Lita seemed to believe that he was respected, liked and the players were behind him. Lamb said he approached Strachan after the Coventry draw, which was a few weeks before Southgates sacking, which makes it all very odd.

If it was for football reasons, it should have been on relegation, not after a home victory one point of the top. Some time after his sacking Southgate was suggesting he didn’t have full control over all the transfers Alves for one, which Lamb later denied however. Could the transfer policy have been behind a fall-out that ultimately sealed his fate? We will never know i guess, different fans have different perceptions and views on that time. Lita said nothing to dissuade me from my thoughts on the matter if anything strengthening my thoughts.

Lita’s views on managers and changing rooms throws some light on how managers can make or break a team and affect their performances though, probably more so nowadays as players are less afraid of managers and will not take to the methods of old.
 
Great interview
His story going in taxi with Tony McMahon and Matthew Bates to Budapest was funny
His story about the way Strachan treated Mark Yeates badly wasn't nice
The whole interview was good - think he liked Michael Laudrup even less than he liked Strachan!
 
We were FOURTH in the table when Southgate was sacked (after a 2-0 home win vs Derby), it's become an urban legend that we were 2nd. but it's not true...

vDerby

It was only 1pt off top, but with a worse GD than the 3 teams above us. West Brom & Newcastle in top two places both went straight back up (they had been relegated from PL with us) so with hindsight it was a terrible decision

Who sacks the manager after a win and 1 point off top? We did, and I believe if he'd given him longer we would have gone straight back up

P.S Good interview BTW, thanks for posting
 
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