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Originally Posted by Alan Sex
I've also had a nagging doubt for a long time about Kenny's part in the decline. He inherited a great side, and I'm sure that the football side of his managing was fine. I'm just not sure he was a great buyer/seller of players, as far as building and maintaining a srong contender goes. I think his subsequent forays into management maybe support that theory.
None of that takes away from the legendary status of the man, of course.
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I agree with you, and will point to one single game where it all started to decline. Can't remember the season exactly, but it was soon after the brilliant Barnes/Beardsley/Aldridge season. We started the next season (or the one after that) winning 7 games on the trot (I think) and then Kenny picked a team to 'do a job' when we played Arsenal away. It wasn't the first time that Kenny forgot about picking the best eleven and then just telling them to snot the opposition, but on this occasion it was packed with defenders playing in midfield. Result.......we lost 3-1 or 3-0 and it all went downhill from there on in. This also coincided with an upturn in Arsenal's fortunes.
Does anybody else remember this game and agree??