A BIRMINGHAM Metropolis fan has stated that he hopes “Rooney fails” following the England legend’s appointment as his aspect’s new supervisor.
The fuming fan’s declare comes after his crew controversially sacked supervisor John Eustace on Monday regardless of the very fact he guided the Brummie aspect to sixth place within the Championship final season.
The sacking has not gone down properly with massive sections of the Blues devoted with the aspect languishing within the second tier of English soccer since 2011/12.
The membership said on the time: “A brand new First Crew Supervisor might be introduced within the coming days who might be accountable for creating an id and clear ‘no concern’ taking part in type that every one Birmingham Metropolis groups will undertake and embrace.”
This new supervisor has since been confirmed as Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney, who left his submit as supervisor of US aspect DC United on Sunday, after the crew did not qualify for the playoffs.
Birmingham Metropolis fan Kelvin rang into talkSPORT Breakfast yesterday to voice his disapproval forward of the official appointment to former Scotland worldwide Ally McCoist and Andy Townsend.
Kelvin stated: “The entire state of affairs is simply disgusting Ali.
“I imply why on earth would any sane membership sack a supervisor who’s doing properly and received you within the playoffs to switch him with a supervisor who’s simply been sacked by a fairly low-level American membership?
“I believe the entire thing stinks – in case you did this in enterprise you’d get sued first, it’s simply atrocious.
“I don’t need to see anyone fail, I’m not that sort of particular person, however to a level, I hope Rooney fails and I hope it backfires on the Birmingham board as a result of they don’t deserve success once they deal with folks like that.
“We’ve received an excellent, stable, up-and-coming, younger English supervisor in John Eustace, who’s labored with some nice different coaches within the begin of his teaching profession and we’ve simply thrown him on the scrapheap.”
The clip was uploaded to social media by talkSPORT yesterday with the caption: “This Birmingham metropolis fan doesn’t need Rooney as supervisor!”
The video has since obtained over 1,100 likes and dozens of feedback from customers left divided over the fan’s opinion.
One person wrote: “Not a correct Blues fan, we’ll again whoever is available in. [it’s] not Rooney’s fault.”
One other stated: “They did it with Rowett.”
A 3rd replied: “That is only a PR stunt to have his title related to the membership. DC [United] are 28 factors adrift, he hasn’t executed that nice within the US.”
One other commented: “I’m a Wolves fan and completely agree with this. having these ex-players that do completely nothing is a joke.”
Birmingham Metropolis have simply introduced Wayne Rooney’s appointment as supervisor this morning, with the ex-England ahead having ten days to become familiar along with his new aspect earlier than their subsequent fixture.