Tough job

I saw the Southampton score last night and did some thinking.

Two seasons ago, George Burley worked miracles at Hearts, turning a bunch of Scottish journeymen and hastily imported Eastern Europeans into a table-topping side, winning eight and drawing two of their first ten matches. They looked like they would romp the league, or certainly challenge the Old Firm. In the end, George fell out with Vladimir Romanov, the Russian-Lithuanian bankroller (quite literally) of Hearts. His stock was so high that he was linked with top Premiership jobs like rebuilding Newcastle, but eventually went to Southampton, with a view to rebuilding and getting promoted back to the Premiership.

Last night's result was interesting; I thought that his stock had sunk so low now that he was bankrupt; losing to Peterborough in the Carling Cup is an atrocious result.

Now it turns out that Burley had to sell this summer to avoid the administration that is killing Dirty Leeds. He mentions building a young new team. Perhaps if anyone can do it, George can.