Management Merry Go Round Madness

[White Noise]

Dario Gradi is stepping down after 24 years and 1,353 games. Thought this day would never come. Change at Crewe.

[The King]

I'll just say wow.

[Mr_Moon]

Hold up, he stepped down in 2007 then took charge again at a later date.

[HatterDon]

One of the true giants of the English game. He should get a knighthood. If he's already got one, he should get a life peerage.

There's no counting the number of full internationals who got their start or who benefitted strongly from his ideas and his tutelage.

[Logicalman]

his Wiki entry ..


Dario Gradi MBE (born 8 July 1941) is an Italian-born English football manager and former player, who was serving as manager of the Crewe Alexandra F.C. Academy. He is a former manager of Crewe Alexandra, with whom he has been associated for almost thirty years.

Gradi is notable for his 24-year first spell as manager of Crewe, between 1983 and 2007. He stepped down from his managerial role in 2007, handing first-team responsibilities to Steve Holland, and became technical director. At that time, Gradi was the longest serving manager of an English football league club. After returning as manager in 2009, he stepped down on 10 November 2011 to focus on youth development at Crewe.



So, he is still involved in the game to a great degree, a true gent of the English game of football.

[Fletchino]

Didn't he bring through are very own Danny murphy

[Two Ton Ted]

He was sports master at my old school in Epsom and used to own the old sports shop in Ewell Village.

I've not met anyone who has a bad word to say against him.

[Burt]

The words "loyalty" and "legend" are much bandied around in this day and age, but Gradi is the true epitome of both.