[Salopbaggie]

Regarding Dowling it feels to me the manger saga was the proverbial back breaking straw, you have managed to pull off a deal with the backing of the board for the person you think is number one candidate, then up pops Lai and veto's it. I dare say in the job of footballing director, your word has to mean something or you would never get a deal done and if Lai has taken that away from him, he had to walk really to gain some self-respect back in the football world, perhaps??.