LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE CHAMPIONSHIP
Few people can lift the altruistic, benevolent haze of Paris 2024 on a Monday morning quite like Peter Ridsdale, a man who would give Buzz Killington a run for his money in the Vibe Olympics, but the managerial merry-go-round waits for no Football Man. One might think the chairman blamed for bringing Leeds United to its knees in the 2000s – who once spent club money on tropical goldfish to swim around a tank in his Elland Road office – wouldn’t be at the sharp end of Football Decisions in 2024. But Ridsdale, at Preston since December 2011, has wasted no time in encouraging manager Ryan Lowe out of a door marked ‘Sling ya Hook’ just one game into the new Championship season. And by wasting no time, Football Daily means that Ridsdale has seemingly wasted quite a lot of time – a full pre-season and a summer of recruitment and planning to be precise – before Lowe’s exit materialised.
