AVB’s Broken Football, Say Experts
I think you know you might be up against it when it’s Monday morning and Alan Shearer is writing a column in the Nation’s biggest selling newspaper discussing your limitations as a manager and strategist. That’s Alan Shearer writing a column on tactics. Tactics. Never mind the face-meltingly stupid act of booing your own team half-way through their third game of the season, if Wor Al is giving out the managerial advice, to anyone other than Claude Anelka, then football is well and truly f***ed.
Trouble is, MOTD’s finest student isn’t even at the front of the cue of those lining up to have a pop-shot at Villas-Boas. Suddenly every low-level media grunt is wading in. Has he learned from his mistakes at Chelsea, wondered Robbie Savage, sagely. They’re just not playing for him, exclaimed Paul Merson. Presumably on heroin.
Tottenham didn’t play well on Saturday. Norwich could’ve easily won had it not been for Friedel’s age-defying nimbleness and sturdy wrists. These are both facts. It is also true, however, that for AVB to be under such a weight of pressure so early is just plain depressing. Being modern thinkers and all, would it not sound feasible to them, that it might take more than, ooh I don’t, a month, to implement an entirely new system into a football club? One which has seen several new players coming in over the summer, while also bidding adieu to its two most creative midfielders and club captain? It’s a stretch to imagine, granted.
Well they all loved ‘Arry didn’t they? Top, top manager.
Those whingeing in attendance on Saturday, while clearly not helping, you’d hope were part of demented minority, not even deserving of remark; but these supposed experts are getting paid for this sewage-pipe analysis.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and nor was it built with Mickey Quinn as site foreman.
Oh and the French hate us now, too.
So that’s just great.
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