{"id":340,"date":"2011-10-02T21:20:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2011-10-02T21:20:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T21:20:13","slug":"curse-mclaren-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/10\/curse-mclaren-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Curse McClaren Strikes Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve McClaren resigned today as Nottinghma Forest manager after they lost again and now risk relegation, the 3rd or 4th or 5th resignation in similar circumstances after a similarly disastrous spell as England manager.<\/p>\n

I have a new idea for him. Whyever does he want to manage a winning team? He could happily lead the Labour party to disaster hardly less incompetently than the current leader, or apply to lead Greece into bankruptcy, pocketing his usual multi million pound salary and signing ‘disastermaster’ book deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve McClaren resigned today as Nottinghma Forest manager after they lost again and now risk relegation, the 3rd or 4th or 5th resignation in similar circumstances after a similarly disastrous spell as England manager. I have a new idea for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-5u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":224,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/06\/my-notes-are-to-be-published\/","url_meta":{"origin":340,"position":0},"title":"My notes are to be published","author":"taxicle","date":"June 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Some of them anyway. 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