New Southhampton Manager

[nyujeelandsaram]

Well I caught wind of Clive Woodward (the English rugby manager) quitting as their coach a couple of days ago and he's now basically been named the boss at Southampton. I can't stand the guy and reckon he's quit because he thinks the team is going to get flogged for a couple of years and he will lose the aura he had as a successful coach.

I hope and expect him to bomb out.

Here's the record of three other blokes who moved to soccer courtesy of the Guardian...

Three coaches who switched to soccer

Anatoly Tarasov - Ice hockey to football
The legendary ice hockey coach took over the CSKA Moscow football team in the mid-1970s but the players failed to respond to his disciplinarian methods and he was sacked midway through his first season. Tarasov blamed the other football coaches in the league for plotting to have him dismissed and returned to ice hockey a year later

Roelant Oltmans - Hockey to football
Oltmans won gold medals as a player at the 1984 Olympics and then as coach in 1996 before switching to football and becoming general manager of NAC Breda in 1999, where he enjoyed immediate success as they were promoted to the first division in his first year. Oltmans returned to hockey in 2003 and was appointed head coach of the Pakistan national team that finished fifth at the Athens Olympics

Jan Erik Aalbu - Ski jumping to football
The successful ski jumper stunned his Norway team-mates earlier this year when he announced that he was craving a new challenge and took up the job as director of sports at the Norwegian Premier League side Stabaek. He has failed to make an impression so far with the club third from bottom and involved in a relegation battle.

[Holyjoe]

You forgot one more...

Steve Paterson - agronomics to football
After a playing career that took him from the Highland League to the Far East via Old Trafford reserves, Paterson returned to the north of Scotland to cultivate fields of freshly-laid turnips and drive a tractor. In December of 2002 after eating an overly-fertilised batch of radishes he wandered into Castle Pittodrie and appointed himself manager, much to the bemusement of George Burley who thought the job was his.
This mistake was only noticed seventeen disastrous alcohol-fueled months later when the Prince of Aberdonia (HRH Willie Miller) returned to Castle Pittodrie and dunted the hopeless farmer into the boot of a Mercedes.
Miller's loyal subjects rejoiced, and so too did the publicans of Inverness watering holes...

[Holyjoe]

... but aye, after the way they dunted Paul Sturrock so quickly I wish Southampton all the ill-luck in the world.

(overlooking his propensity to fall over, kick, push, shove and generally manipulate his way through the 1980s in Dundee United colours...)

[SteveW]

Give Sturrock the Suwon job!!!!!!

Give Woodward the Suwon job!!!

Give Harisu the Suwon job!!!!

Give anyone except Mrs Bloody Cha the Suwon job!!!!