re: Coach DeBoer is light years ahead of hiring Ray Perkins.

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Ray Perkins was a 24K Jack arse. The man went out of his way to tick people off. I’ve never seen anyone like him before or since.

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DeBoer in his opening press conference went out of his way to symbolically link himself to Saban with his comments about asking him for advice every day. Perkins took the exact opposite approach, going out of his way to show that there was a new sheriff in town. It seems like there was a big emphasis on changing things at that time, even tweaking things like changing the chip sponsor from Golden Flake