Reading about players going out and getting cunted (and glasses of pre-match wine the night before) is sickening when you consider the wages they earn are significantly higher than they could ever hope to earn if they were outside of football. A bit of professionalism wouldn't go amiss.
Brian Clough seemed to do ok with that style of management. Forest won the European Cup after Clough had ordered all his players to have a pre-match beer or glass of wine. I'm not saying King was in the same league as Clough as a manager but it's impossible to say whether any individual manager's style is right or wrong. Clough was also pretty piss-poor at the man management side of things but I doubt if anyone would argue against him being one of the greatest managers of all time.
Two players that were in Kingy's team have been interviewed so far. Both have slated him. But then both players were pretty much universally slated by the Swindon fans when they were there. Grant Smith, in any case, slated just about everyone in his interview - he sounds like another Pericard; nothing's his fault, always somebody else's. Whatever anyone thinks of King he was manager during one of the toughest periods of the club's history and for one memorable season did a magnificent job in getting us to the play-offs, and nobody can deny that he brought in some great players. I've always had a lot of time for him and couldn't really give a toss what a couple of bitter sounding ex-players think of him.
