{"id":293306,"date":"2023-10-12T22:25:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T22:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=293306"},"modified":"2023-10-12T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T22:25:13","slug":"birmingham-replacing-eustace-with-rooney-stinks-insists-sutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/birmingham-replacing-eustace-with-rooney-stinks-insists-sutton\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham replacing Eustace with Rooney &apos;STINKS&apos;, insists SUTTON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Birmingham City appointing Wayne Rooney &#8216;absolutely STINKS&#8217;, insists CHRIS SUTTON on Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Coming Up podcast&#8230; as IAN LADYMAN looks ahead to Wagatha Christie part two when the Blues take on Jamie Vardy&#8217;s Leicester<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Birmingham City sacked John Eustace despite sitting sixth in the Championship<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Blues replaced him with former Derby and DC United boss Wayne Rooney<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chris Sutton has hit out at Birmingham\u00a0City sacking John Eustace and replacing him with Wayne Rooney\u00a0as he insisted &#8216;the whole thing absolutely stinks&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eustace was controversially dismissed on Monday by the Blues\u00a0&#8211; who are co-owned by NFL great Tom Brady &#8211; with the club sixth in the Championship heading into the international break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After much speculation &#8211; which was first revealed by Mail Sport in September &#8211; Birmingham\u00a0confirmed the appointment of Rooney on Wednesday, just days after he left DC United after failing to get them into the MLS Cup play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham&#8217;s move, which was driven by chief executive Garry Cook &#8211; who has a relationship with Rooney &#8211; has caused much discussion in the footballing world, with many slamming the club for their harsh decision to dispense of Eustace&#8217;s services.<\/p>\n<p>And former Premier League winner Sutton, speaking on <span>Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Coming Up podcast<\/span>, joined those dissenting voices when questioned by co-host and football editor Ian Ladyman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/19\/76487233-12623737-image-m-51_1697133933801.jpg\" height=\"609\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Sutton slammed Birmingham&#8217;s decision to sack John Eustace and bring in Wayne Rooney<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/19\/76487215-12623737-image-a-48_1697133883681.jpg\" height=\"428\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Rooney was appointed as the new Birmingham City manager on Wednesday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/19\/76487217-12623737-image-a-49_1697133887622.jpg\" height=\"415\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eustace was dismissed on Monday despite Birmingham sitting sixth in the Championship<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have total respect for Wayne Rooney as a player,&#8217; he said. &#8216;And actually, you know, what he did at Derby County as a manager, but it (this situation) stinks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The whole thing absolutely stinks. It stenches. It just does &#8211; the whole Eustace sacking and then, you know, that period of time before Rooney was announced. I mean, this was always bound to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This was the worst kept secret in football, wasn&#8217;t it? When Eustace lost his job, we all knew who was going to take over. But there was that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel for John use just more than anybody else. Look, it&#8217;s up to Birmingham and the owners, the route they want to go down. And essentially, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If Wayne Rooney does a really job, a good job and gets Birmingham back to the promised land, the Premier League, then you&#8217;ll have to say it&#8217;s the right decision. But based on where Birmingham were and the direction they were heading in under John Eustace&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8216;This is a major gamble from Birmingham. And they&#8217;re probably looking at the commercial value, the sponsorships, that people will look at Birmingham in a different way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But essentially if you&#8217;re a Birmingham City fan you just want to get promoted. And you want the best person in place, the best person for the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And it&#8217;s questionable whether Wayne Rooney is the best person for the job. But you have to give him a chance, of course.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76478357-12623737-image-a-28_1697120505368.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rooney returns to English football with the Blues after a mixed stint in America with DC United\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/18\/76481113-12623737-In_a_press_conference_today_he_outlined_his_ambitions_with_the_c-a-47_1697133389344.jpg\" height=\"397\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He outlined his ambitions with the club and is targeting immediate promotion to the Premier League<\/p>\n<p>Ladyman echoed many of Sutton&#8217;s points but also pointed to an example from January 2013 when Southampton made the unpopular decision to change manager despite being three points clear of the Premier League relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;T<span>he wisdom of this decision will be born out\u00a0by the results. And I have to say it can occasionally happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I remember years ago when Southampton sacked Nigel Adkins, who was doing a good job for them, and they hired this coach from Argentina that none of us knew anything about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;And everybody\u00a0<\/span>criticised Southampton endlessly. That coach was Mauricio Pochettino and look what happened to Southampton while Pochettino was there and look what he&#8217;s gone on to do subsequently. It can work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;However, this feels a bit different.\u00a0It&#8217;s very hard to predict, but I think they will do OK. Because I think that Rooney so far has shown himself to be an OK manager with some potential.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But, by that I mean that they&#8217;ll be a top half Championship club. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll fly to the moon, which is what Garry Cook hopes that they will do. But I might be wrong.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rooney&#8217;s return to the Championship will see him come up against Jamie Vardy at Leicester City, with the Blues set to meet the Foxes on December 16 at St Andrew&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Their partners &#8211; Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney &#8211; were involved in a high-profile court case last year after Rooney accused Vardy of leaking posts from her private Instagram account to The Sun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76478371-12623737-image-a-29_1697120574897.jpg\" height=\"350\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ian Ladyman also looked ahead to Birmingham&#8217;s game with Leicester in a few months time\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/15\/76478485-12623737-image-a-30_1697120579199.jpg\" height=\"465\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rooney and Vardy&#8217;s (pictured playing for England in 2016) partners &#8211; Coleen and Rebekah &#8211; were involved in a high-profile court case last year that became known as &#8216;Wagatha Christie&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dispute became known as &#8216;Wagatha Christie&#8217;, with the judge ruling in favour of Rooney. Vardy was subsequently ordered to pay a substantial proportion of her legal expenses.<\/p>\n<p>And Ladyman poked fun at what could happen when their husbands come up against each other in a few months time.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;Wayne Rooney vs Jamie Vardy.\u00a0I wonder if the two wives will be coming to watch that one. And if so, whether they&#8217;ll be in the same executive box.\u00a0I mean, that&#8217;s gonna be a cracker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I mean, there&#8217;ll be Instagram posts. There&#8217;ll be more Instagram posts than you can shake your left foot at. Seriously, that will be one to look forward to. Birmingham City versus Leicester.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12623737\/John-Eustace-Wayne-Rooney-Wagatha-Christie-Jamie-Vardy-Leicester.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City appointing Wayne Rooney &#8216;absolutely STINKS&#8217;, insists CHRIS SUTTON on Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Coming Up podcast&#8230; as IAN LADYMAN looks ahead to Wagatha Christie part two when the Blues take on Jamie Vardy&#8217;s Leicester Birmingham City sacked John Eustace despite sitting sixth in the Championship The Blues replaced him with former Derby and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Birmingham replacing Eustace with Rooney &amp;apos;STINKS&amp;apos;, insists SUTTON - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/birmingham-replacing-eustace-with-rooney-stinks-insists-sutton\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Birmingham replacing Eustace with Rooney &amp;apos;STINKS&amp;apos;, insists SUTTON - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Birmingham City appointing Wayne Rooney &#8216;absolutely STINKS&#8217;, insists CHRIS SUTTON on Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Coming Up podcast&#8230; 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