Hot Potato

So its nearly a week since the enigma that is William Macintosh Davies was relieved of his position at Nottingham Forest, to me it seems like the few days has been weeks. The negativity that was directed at our club whilst davies was in charge was poison as he had excluded local and national media from any interaction at the city ground, Whilst the sacking of the scotsman was supposed to put things right it seems to have made us even more of a media circus.
Manager after manager turn us down for one reason or another with one major issue raising its head, that issue seems to be the interference of our owner Mr Fawaz al Hasawi, as much as it pains me to say it there must be some credibility to all these rumours?  Neil Warnock was interviewed very quickly for the position and was prematurely hailed as the new manager in some quarters of the media and at the last minute decided the job was not for him as the conditions were not right in other words fawaz wanted some input on team selection, well this is what mr Warnock was implying. True or not it was quite worrying to some but like Warnock himself stated " if you have invested so much money in a club are you not allowed a opinion " .
Even club legend Stuart Pearce refused to get back to his spiritual heaven were he knows his presence would be worshipped stating personal reasons for his refusal. Then we are quickly informed that the FIA have ruled out Oneil and Keane due to their contractual obligations to the Republic of Ireland also ex Cardiff manager Malky Mackay distances himself from the now Hot Potato job on trentside.
Before any Garibaldi supporter panics a sense of realism should be reached here, yes warnock has a good record but to be fair he was a quick fix until the end of the season but how many Leeds United supporters tweeted their admiration for him?
Then lets look at psycho, this Forest icon knows if he fails at forest then it could ruin his immmortality on trentside so he's played the safe card and opted to bottle it in my opinion. Not a bad thing neither has his managerial cv is not exactly overwhelming is it?
Keane and Oneill ....well its obvious they were never a option. Mackay he did well with Cardiff for one season with someone elses team and is embroiled in a legal case for a fat pay off due to his rather ugly sacking.
Now lets look at the remaining candidates who may want this fantastic opportunity to become a hero in eight games and get to manage a club through the lottery of the play offs and into the magical land of the Premier league. ....
Gianfranco Zola, Glenn Hoddle, Steve Clarke these 3 seem to be on the radar as far as the bookies are concerned. Well to be fair any to them would be ok in my eyes especially clarke (I would love Nigel Clough to come home though). One thing is for sure any new gaffer will have to work closely with Fawaz but that,s something he will have to put up with. At the end of the day he's invested millions so who are we to tell him he can't advise here and there? So lets look positive and realise maybe the previous candidates were not exactly fit for purpose........think about it, you know it makes sense.