The trouble with George

All is eerily quiet on the good ship, er, rudderless wreck Cambridge United today.

One can only assume that it is the calm before the storm, and that news of our chairman's departure is near. In some ways I will be sad to see George Rolls go, but following his rant at Paul Barry on the radio yesterday, and subsequent responses from Barry and CFU, I fail to see how he can remain in post.

George has obviously done a lot of good work in cutting costs and getting the club on a sound financial footing since becoming chairman. How much of this was down to his own initiative, rather than following the plans put in place by Norman Gautrey, can only be speculated on by us mere mortals, but having someone like him overseeing things on a day-to-day basis seems to have been a good thing, judging by the increased number of sponsorship deals and PR initiatives being announced lately.

The problem is he doesn't seem to know where to draw the line without pissing people off. It's all very well putting the boot in on Barry, but the fact remains that he has seen off two (on paper) fairly decent managers. Perhaps if George had to stuck to what he does well, and left the football people to deal with the football side of things, he would now be in a better position to take the moral high ground against our major shareholder, whose actions certainly appear to have been questionable in this affair.

As it is we now have this unseemly public sniping which doesn't really help anyone, and is inevitably going to end in more tears. If/when he does go, I don't think I'd necessarily want Brabin back, but perhaps the rest of the board can persuade Ling to return and finished the job he (briefly) started.