Perhaps the truth is that Parish wanted FdB and the Americans wanted Dyche. After all Parish appointed Burley (for "flowing football", had the argument with Freedman when the football was not attacking enough, appointed Pardew for a more attacking style.
It is believed that the Americans appointed Allardyce and have now got rid of de Boer.
If we want a more solid defensive based style, as too many of our players aren't capable of making a 10 yard pass, perhaps the Americans should take the lead and not Parish!

Oh get real! Conspiracy claims now. What possible benefit could Parish get from being relegated which is where we are heading. Four games in forget the loses but no goals scored against 3 teams we would be looking to seriously compete with. Now 3 games looming we will struggle to get anything from. Potentially 0 points from 8 games, that's relegation stuff and only 1 striker in the 24 uck!!!

There are always 2 sides to every story, and when it comes to football I would not believe either!

The whole sport is corrupt to the core so take any news with a pinch of salt!

I think 2 things have come from this :

1) Parish will not employ another foreign manager for many years

2) Parish needs to remember he is the chairman and let the manager deal with footballing matters as this is not the first time we have read about his constant interfering.

That's it, I am fed up and tired of this...even Brighton are laughing at us now!!

Some people are like Slinkies … not really good for anything, but you can’t help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.

Tbf Lee played well v Swansea. It's being on the left which was wrong IMO.

COYP

A lot of people want black and white on whether it's Parish's fault or De Boer's fault but I think the Lee starting against Burnley situation proves there are definitely shades of grey.

Should FDB have started Lee? No probably not. Should he be in a position where he's so light on players that he can even consider Lee? Definitely not!

The reason Big Sam struggled despite being clearly a great manager and a great fit was because you can only do so much with the squad we have and Parish must know this by now.

I actually do think a new 'safe-hands' manager is the correct approach. I think they'll play 4-5-1, keep things tight, keep things simple. That bit was down to De Boer changing too much too quickly.

But if Benteke gets injured, whether it's Hodgson, Allardyce or Mourinho, we don't have anyone to play as striker and score us goals. We don't even have a Frazier Campbell to play as striker and NOT score us goals.

Lee has always given his all and is clearly not good enough. FDB had Zaha out and a choice of Lee or kids. He went with Lee and he made a massive cock-up. But again, Lee should never have been an option to begin with if the board invested properly.

Agree with most of this, but there was an option other than Lee. Surely the better option would have been to play van Aanholt at LB with Schlupp on the left of midfield. Lee didn't just make one awful mistake, he looked out of his depth.