Some people in sports are popular and some aren’t. For those who aren’t popular, some try to improve that while others embrace the hate. For current Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock, he embraces the hate so much that he wants it to keep going after he’s dead.
In an interview, Warnock jokingly said that he wanted to have a minute booing throughout England as a tribute whenever he dies. Usually, soccer teams show tribute to the recently deceased by having a minute silence or a minute applause depending on the situation.
In a way, Warnock has a point. He has had a history of saying and doing things that would make his rivals as well as his own team mad at him. And if people thought Warnock was a terrible person when he was alive, why should they all of a sudden say nice things just because the man wouldn’t be with us?
Some notable things Warnock has done in his long career includes things like saying he would want to manage Sheffield Wednesday just to deliberately relegate them as well as criticizing teams who play weaker lineups against relegation threatened teams whenever his teams are playing against those relegated teams to stay up. Warnock even wrote in his book that while he was at Sheffield United, he got into it with actor Sean Bean (Ned Stark from Game of Thrones). Bean denied this but Warnock said that Bean went into Warnock’s office to yell at him about the team being relegated and used foul language against Warnock’s family.
The way that sounds, it seems like Warnock would be a natural on a Fox Sports “Embrace Debate” type show. He’s not above saying something controversial and doesn’t really care whether people love or hate him. Warnock does seem to be able to take a joke so that could work against him but it seems Warnock is comfortable with being booed while in the afterlife.
[Mirror]
