Sep 14, 2026 · 38 min · 19 segments
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Rich, what a time to be alive because this afternoon at 2:53 PM, British meantime, whatever it's called, Preston North End announced they had parted company with hapless manager Paul Heckingbottom.
It is finally over.
The so-called good manager we appointed two years ago.
He had his money to spend, he had his pre-seasons.
And Critch, in the end, he just couldn't deliver, could he?
He couldn't deliver.
As, as the Preston said, it's a results business, and we didn't get many of them.
I mean, when you look back at his time, how many times did we actually play well? How many times did we play good football?
Yeah.
There's not, there's not many.
We obviously had that spell in his second season where we was good at the start when we had Divine Dobbin Armstrong.
There was some...
You know, you think...
I don't just wanna make out like it was all horrendous.
There was the Southampton wins.
That, that start of the season, I was gonna say everyone started to believe except us miserable sods.
We were a bit like, if you remember on the podcast, we were a bit like that.
Yeah.
Yep.
As I predicted, we'd finish 10th.
I know, I know.
I bet you, I bet you...
You're glad Darren's not on so you can be like, "Darren, where... [laughs] Do you remember when you-
Rich, what a time to be alive because this afternoon at 2:53 PM, British meantime, whatever it's called, Preston North End announced they had parted company with hapless manager Paul Heckingbottom.
It is finally over.
The so-called good manager we appointed two years ago.
He had his money to spend, he had his pre-seasons.
And Critch, in the end, he just couldn't deliver, could he?
He couldn't deliver.
As, as the Preston said, it's a results business, and we didn't get many of them.
I mean, when you look back at his time, how many times did we actually play well? How many times did we play good football?
Yeah.
There's not, there's not many.
We obviously had that spell in his second season where we was good at the start when we had Divine Dobbin Armstrong.
There was some...
You know, you think...
I don't just wanna make out like it was all horrendous.
There was the Southampton wins.
That, that start of the season, I was gonna say everyone started to believe except us miserable sods.
We were a bit like, if you remember on the podcast, we were a bit like that.
Yeah.
Yep.
As I predicted, we'd finish 10th.
I know, I know.
I bet you, I bet you...
You're glad Darren's not on so you can be like, "Darren, where... [laughs] Do you remember when you-
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