City Chief Exec To Get The Sack?

I'm Chief Executive of Manchester United, no wait!

Last Saturday I called Man City’s Chief Executive, Garry Cook, a clown and suggested he was an embarrassment to the club (someone called me a pr*ck for that). I also said it was a matter of time before the Arab owners of City see that Cook is doing them no favors at all.

Well, today’s Guardian suggests as much so I’m not alone, saying that Cook is skating on thin ice after a bunch of gaffes including:

*Stating on camera that City were on target to be bigger than Real Madrid, Manchester United and Barcelona.

*Caught lying in Roberto Mancini’s ‘arrival’ press conference over the time frame of his appointment and the handling of Mark Hughes’ firing.

*Overpaying for players and missing out on targets such as Kaka. At the time he said AC Milan ‘bottled it’.

*Promising City fans a victory in the second leg of the Carling Cup, though we all know what happened on Wednesday night! Alex Ferguson apparently used Cook’s loose lips as part of his pre-game talk.

Cook was hired by previous owner Thaksin Shinawatra, who was convicted for corruption and human rights issues in Thailand, something Cook didn’t care a lot about when he said this:

“Whether he’s guilty of something over there, I can’t worry too much about. Morally, I feel ­comfortable in this environment.”

Cook recently gaffed Uwe Rosler’s induction into the hall of fame also by welcoming the former player to the “Manchester United Hall of Fame”. Forget all the rest; that one is unforgivable!

I have nothing against Cook personally apart from thinking he’s a bit of an idiot and embarrassing as the face of a Premier League football club. Looking at some City message boards, City fans think the same. Manchester City paid him £1.5m last year; surely you can buy more entertaining clowns for that sum. Maybe these chaps: