Isn't this news wonderful? Doesn't it make you feel like dancing? No, on both counts. I'm glad he's better, but I wish he would retire.
Am I a bad person because I wish Roeder would just retire and, as noted linguist Mike Tyson would say, fade into Bolivia?
I don't think so, I want him to retire as well - for his own good. If WHU Happens to benefit from his leaving, then it just doubly good.
maybe I'm just painfully out of the loop, but I just read that Roeder had a brain tumor, not a stroke/hemorraege (sp?). The surgery was to remove the tumor. craziness. http://www.whufc.com/whufcnews.asp?article=149816
I think the earliest reports were a heart attack, then stroke - I think the brain tumor is part of the stroke bit though.
Ditto to above sentiments. I'm a nice guy, too, but if I fail at the job that I was hired to do, I will be fired. Having a team relegated is pretty much a failure on (several people, but) primarily the head coach. Its an unpleasant situation, what with this stroke/heart attack/brain tumor thing that Roeder has, but the man who leads you to relegation cannot be counted on to get you promoted.
I think the board now recognizes that their "on the cheap" attitude during the summer were detrimental to Roeder's ability to do his job. He wanted to buy a central defender and forward in the summer, but that wasn't allowed. So he gets Brevett and Ferdinand, and we go on a tear. The board probably feels responsible for his demise, and maybe a bit guilty from the after effects.